An England that no longer exists (from CNN)

Shirley Baker, photographer, with pics of her native Manchester from the 60s and 70s.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/living/gallery/tbt-shirley-baker-photography/index.html

"All those people, all those lives, where are they now..."

I'm old enough to remember this life. Until I was 8 we lived on a Manchester terraced street. I have vivid memories of the hot summer of 76. The street tar would get hot and bubble, so little kids like me would stick our thumbs in them. Clackers and tied together shoes would be thrown up on the telegraph wires (telephone wires, but they were never called that) so that they hung in the air for years. As kids we would roam our streets, with the street dog looking after us all, so we thought. Then One day in 1978 we moved up the social ladder to the suburban semi with a garden. I returned to my old street once. Our little road, not ours anymore. It belongs to parked cars now.
 
The kid holding the Johnny seven OMA on the streets of Salford could have been me, anyone understand this sentence.
 
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