Cold Quote by John Burnside

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for…

— Stephen Hendry

Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and…

— Edith Bowman

We moved to London from the Rhondda Valley when I was four.

— Paul Whitehouse

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every…

— Rick Astley

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as…

— Paul Nurse

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my…

— Trudie Styler

My upbringing was very basic working-class on the outskirts of Nottingham. My mother, Glenis, was a nursery nurse, looking after special-needs children, and my…

— Mathew Horne

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

— Edith Bowman

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

— Kevin Whately

I grew up in Northumberland, a happy child in a loving, hard-working family.

— Robson Green

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

— Sonoya Mizuno

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.

— Gavin Esler