The lifestyle of a working-class family in which I grew up. I do not 
know if it is typical of the rest of our kind, but it may serve to explain why I became the person I am.
I was born in Spalding, a smallish market town in Lincolnshire, on Friday Dec seventh 1923, and spent the first sixteen years of my life there, in a Council house by the side of the River Welland.
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