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from Letters to the Telegraph Hosted by David McCreadie
The Telegraph letters page is a competitive place. This week it had the Iran ceasefire, two ministerial resignations and an American AI story to contend with. My letter about a West Sussex car park did not make the cut. It finds its home here instead, as the centrepiece of Episode 5, which turns out to be about rather more than parking. It is about the summer jobs of the early seventies, the travel they funded, the lessons they left behind, and the unexpected satisfaction of a hi-vis jacket on a fine June afternoon. There is a Victorian fraud, a Hollywood cowboy, a hotel general manager called Mr Smart, and a brief encounter with a relatively unknown comedian in a hotel ballroom in Inverness. The comedian was Billy Connolly. We were sixteen. Nobody can hold that against us. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to David McCreadie at davidmccreadie.substack.com/subscribe
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