I was twelve.

I did not pass the eleven plus, maybe I should have worried more and listened to music less. Oh Well.

Britain was in some sought of problems around this time. The new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the people in July "most of our people have never had it so good". Those that did not have it that good emigrated to commonwealth countries at the rate of two thousand a week. Those that stayed saw the spectre of the Common Market on the horizon.

Car manufacturers started to put prices within range of the working man. I think that they knew what was going to happen next year.

4th December 88 people died in the train crash at Lewisham.

My home town in Kent was on the direct rail line from Lewisham in South London. Our street was in turmoil over the train crash at Lewisham. Neighbours had loved ones coming back from London that night. Some from work some from Christmas shopping. With only two telephones in the whole street (and that was a party line). Nobody knew what was going on.

25th March Treaty of Rome signed, setting up the Common Market.