Gran Collins

I know I was born on a Friday because the date on my birth certificate works out that way. Mum also said Friday, although she gave me two different times over the years and once moved the whole thing into the afternoon. I have kept the morning version because that was the one she used most often.

Gran Collins counted her change before she left the counter.

Decimal Day was Monday, 15 February 1971. I was eight and had been told that money was changing, although the pound was staying the same. This seemed an unnecessary way to organise it.

I received my first pay packet on Friday, 31 August 1979, after four weeks at Wessex Marine Supplies.

Pauline persuaded me to attend the local history group on 10 October 2024.