Summer Holidays

Every year for one week in July or August the Nowsty family peers suspiciously from the windows of their terraced house in Darlington as if the weather is about to play yet another cruel trick and they pray for sun but prepare for rain, slaves to an unpredictable British summer. Yes, it's time for the annual family holidays so let’s leave that doom and gloom behind and escape back to the northern English working-class world of half a century ago when routine was suspended temporarily once a year and though daily life was just as complicated, expectations were perhaps a little simpler.