Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Memories, Music and Movies – 1968 – Southsea Seafront – The Funfair – Mary Hopkins and Funny Girl by Sally Cronin

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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Memories, Music and Movies – 1968 – Southsea Seafront – The Funfair – Mary Hopkins and Funny Girl by Sally Cronin

I cannot remember a time when music and movies where not a part of my life.

1968 – Southsea Seafront – The Funfair – Mary Hopkins and Funny Girl

It is 1968 and I am fifteen going on twenty-five. Desperate to move on from being a child to a young woman and time seemed to move so slowly.

The previous year at age fourteen and three months (the earliest that you could work legally), I had begun my stint as a weekend and school holiday council employee in one of their cafes along Southsea seafront.

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