Tony is a member of D-Mob, part of DEEP the UK Network of Dementia Voices. These memories were kindly shared with Fran Hamilton, Occupational Therapist in January 2021
Tony shares memories of his time in Liverpool, Brighton and London
“Oh yes I was a hippy, that was in the sixties when it all started. And my hair just grew out and out like that, and I had all these curls, and the girls loved it.
I was really bohemian you know, they loved all that. I went to a college in Worthing to do my A Levels before going off to University. So it was in that era of my life, you know. So nobody gave a damn. I’ve lost touch with them all now. Anyway, it was great fun and it was one of those, I don’t know if it was because I was young and silly, but it seemed to me to be a golden age. Everyone was pretty, everyone was funny, it was just lovely and it just had a nice vibe about it. Some of it was drug induced, but not all of it! That was in Worthing of all places, boring old Worthing, there’s nothing boring about it at all!
I went to Liverpool and did a maths degree, oh it was a terrible mistake, I passed it, just, but I hated it. Oh then I got into computing because I had a maths degree. I’ll tell you something in Liverpool there’s a lot of mean drinking. I thought I could hold my own, but up there I couldn’t. They were lovely people, and the thing they have up there is humour. It’s sort of drop dead humour. No holds are bars, you can say what you like to whom you like. There was one thing there was quite interesting. The locals, no, some of the locals, resented us being up there, because we were students. We had this reputation for being lazy and partying and doing drugs, and all that sort of thing you know. Whether we did it or not, didn’t matter, they thought we did it. And they were quite hostile to us some of them. But generally the Liverpudlians are beautiful people. And there’s a lot of history to the place. Apart from the Beatles you know. It’s always interesting. And the Uni was dead centre. That was boring I did a maths degree. You can imagine. And we had these lecturers who were really enthusiastic about maths and they’d prattle away. And we didn’t have white boards in those days, it was chalk, just shows how far back I’m going doesn’t it. I scraped in doing my maths degree, I got the lowest mark possible known to man. But we had some good parties up there, the girls were lovely.”
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Tony now with his partner, Angela. He has still got lots of hair!
