Growing Pange's childhood memoir of city life
No telephones, television was something to be watched at the well-off neighbours, and life in the prefab was hard with the tiny building freezing on the inside every winter.
But then there was the music - front row seats at the Colston Hall to see the Beatles for under one pound, dancing, the weekly visits to the cinema, and the boys, teenage relationships, and the forging of lifelong friendships.
This was the world in which Shropshire's Angela Skelley grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, and she has told her story in her debut book, a memoir called It's Wake-Up Time.
Angela's childhood haunt was Bristol and she is hoping her reminiscences will strike a chord with readers from the same era.
"There are no deep tragedies but plenty of the stuff of everyday life which everyone can relate to and hopefully take some pleasure in," said Angela, one of four children squeezed into that prefab home.
"Today, it seems to have been a very different world. But in other ways growing up was what it has always been."
After her Bristol upbringing she emigrated to Canada, but returned to Britain and settled in Shropshire.
"We came to Much Wenlock 34 years ago with my husband's job - he worked for the Inland Revenue in Telford - and there's nowhere we would rather be, although we still have strong family and friends links to Bristol," she said.
"I was a full time mum to our two boys who both went to the Wenlock schools until they left for university and then to start their own families. That's when I returned to my love of writing, drawing on my old diaries to try to recapture the spirit of my early days.
"It was good to look back and realise that, although much has changed on the surface, a good deal of one's life revolves around the timeless themes of love, family and friendship which get you through the ups and downs .
"This is my first book to be published, but in between being a busy nan to three grandsons, walking the dog and weeding the allotment, I am working on the next instalment, covering the time when I spent two years in Canada."
Skelley is Angela's married name and she added: "I was Angela Burborough growing up in Bristol and I was known as Pange by the family. My brothers were known as Burbs and this name is now given to all 'our' young ones, big and small. Nowadays friends call me Angie or Ange, but Pange has stuck within the family."
It's Wake-Up Time is published by Matador (www.troubador.co.uk) and costs £8.99.
