@wandeljw,
Yes I did. Thanks WJW
It's almost impossible to convey to the younger generation what the early 50's were like. No television, no central heating (and some very cold winters too), drab colours, food rationing, clothes rationing, quite a lot of horse-drawn transport still. When I was about 6, our daily milk delivery came in a horse-drawn cart, and you had to take your own jug out to be filled.
Happy days? Of course- we were young, and knew nothing else.