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THIRSK, NORTH YORKSHIRE

‘When did ‘Classics’ end?’

The year 1953 was when life in Britain began finally to bleed from monochrome to colour. Not everywhere, and not for everybody, but, slowly, there was a palpable sense that brighter days were just bey