NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
When I was seven years old, in the summer of 1964, I stayed for a week with my grandparents, who lived in a house on Hounslow Heath.
Each day I would go off on my own on the Tube to South Kensington to look at things in the museums there.
It didn't seem like anything unusual to me at the time, but 47 years later I find it surprising that I did this alone, and that my parents and grandparents were happy about it. Were other 50-year-olds on here allowed that much independence as children?
And no, I don't think they were hoping that I might run away to sea...
Each day I would go off on my own on the Tube to South Kensington to look at things in the museums there.
It didn't seem like anything unusual to me at the time, but 47 years later I find it surprising that I did this alone, and that my parents and grandparents were happy about it. Were other 50-year-olds on here allowed that much independence as children?
And no, I don't think they were hoping that I might run away to sea...