We had a craze when I was about 9 years old of getting all of our friends and their parents to sign an autograph book. Betty Watsons' mum wrote "Be a man my son and you will find life's game is easily won". I've never forgotten that either. My childhood friends were Jean and Joan Whitcombe, Billy Lewis, Peter Munday, Mavis and Jessie Brown, Michael Froggat and later in time, Dick Payne, Dave Price and John Deacon. Childhood games we played were "Milktops", Fag Cards, Hopskotch and Spit and Hop. At 14 years old a big thrill was having a fag and sneaking in through the "Exit" door of the cinema. A pantomime I saw starred Eddie Calvert (Cherry Pink & Apple-Blossom White) and his golden trumpet. It was at this show that I learned to say/sing the Alphabet backwards. I have never forgotten this and teach my grandchildren, friends and relatives to do it.