Category: Dedcot

The end of Easter 1985 vacation looms and the Kids intend to fit in one last all-day game of AD&D…

It’s early April 1985, breezy and cool and the start of the Easter school holidays. On Good Friday the Kids…

February half term in 1985 is over for the Kids and they reluctantly board their morning buses to return to…

The Christmas of 1984 is a wet one; rain, rain and more rain. Transformers and cabbage patch dolls are this…

A thick fog blankets England one dark October night in 1984. In Dedcot folk wake up suddenly in the middle…

July 1984 and it’s the start of the kids’ big summer holiday at last. The days are long and mostly…

The start of the Easter holidays dawned dry, cold and grey.  Over breakfast the kids learned in various ways that…

Final bells rang out the week before Christmas 1983, and up and down the land there was much rejoicing as…

The rules of the game in all British schools (and streets) Duration Matches shall be played over three unequal periods: …

Part I Southern England. Autumn ’83.  One cold and mizzling evening. A garishly lit and noisy Dedcot Railway Station disgorges…