1970s Quote by Michael Rosen

In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a…

— Prunella Scales

I was a hairstylist in London up until the age of 21, working in Sloane Square.

— Henry Golding

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

— Georgia Toffolo

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit…

— Ashley Madekwe

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

I moved to London in 2011. I was working as a teaching assistant in the day and was doing stand-up gigs in the night.

— Lucy Beaumont

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

— Jimmy White

Mrs Wheeler at Dudley Middle School, where I went from 10 to 13, also saw I had the ability to perform and entertain people.

— Robson Green

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

— Paul Nurse

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to…

— John Vane

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew…

— April Bloomfield

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan,…

— Anne Waldman