Opportunity! Friday, 6th October, 1961

God Almighty, how Providence can smile! After leaving Canford a year early, I was free to accompany Mother to New York in the summer of 1961. 1961-’2 would be my gap year, thirty years before such things became fashionable. Money was tight, but Dad no longer had to find school fees. In New York, Mother’s sister, Lucy Mitton, … Read more