BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 03:17:00
My grandad was the manager of a beerfactory, we had a big house, we had servants, we had everything. my uncle greeted us at the airport with the old 1970s duffel coats, three of them, we were freezing, it was absolute cold. when we then came to bolton, we cried for six months because of the cold. couldn't handle it. we had to live like the english, you know. english clothes, haircut short, i remember having bay city roller socks, the ladies at the nursery said, "tell your niece to watch top of the pops and coronation "street, and she will soon pick up english." and did that work? before i knew...