Our columnist was fond of the days between Christmas and the new year for many reasons

As many of us look to get fitter and healthier, our columnist recalls how we used to do it!

Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

I learnt to type on a heavy black manual typewriter at secondary school in the late 1970s. Although I was keen to learn, I took a strong dislike to the messing about with ribbons and carbon paper. It

“You can’t live here. There are no shops,” my friend Jen stated. We were sitting in the van belonging to the pub I lived in, the Golden Cross, Slough, waiting for my parents who had an interview for t

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