Peter Saunders was born in Croydon’s Old Town (near where the flyover now stands) in 1950. The family later moved to a maisonette in New Addington, then to Waddon, and eventually to Shirley. In 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan told the British people: ‘Let us be frank about it, most of our people have never had it so good’. And he was right. The fifties was a period of growing affluence. Peter’s family bought their own home in a cul-de-sac near Duppas Hill; they owned a 12-inch black-and-white television (which only received one channel); and his Dad was the proud possessor of a 1936 Morris, which he tenderly wrapped in a cover every night to protect it from the rain. Peter grew up to become a sociology professor at Sussex University. In this talk, he uses his experiences of his Croydon childhood in the 1950s to reflect on some of the changes (for better and for worse) that have taken place since then in the way we live, work and bring up our children. 

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