Jubilee 1977

4/3/1977

1953: 'Well, it's like a sort of Sunday, innit? We always have egg and fried bread on Sunday. I bet the Queen will have a cooked breakfast this morning!'

4/10/1977

1954/55 : 'When I think of what " going to the pictures" meant before the war ... everybody used to go then, at least once a week ... some people twice and three times. Long queues, Wednesdays and Saturdays ...'

4/17/1977

1956/57: 'If he's on the level, this is the intelligence coup of the decade ... but if it isn't ... we'd be walking straight into the biggest trap in a great deal longer.'

4/24/1977

1958/59: 'I wouldn't be upset. I don't think they sleep in ditches. I'm sure Canon Collins doesn't.'

5/1/1977

1960-61: I've spent the last week with the lawyers and the tax wallahs. They won't budge ... We're going to have to sell Castle Meryon.'

5/8/1977

1962/63: 'There's never been a time for people like you and me to make it quite like there is now. You want to be a photographer. Well I think you could be a very good one, but you've got to put yourself about a bit ... '

5/15/1977

1964: 'There's good girls and there's bad girls. But when good girls make a mistake, they've a right to a second chance. I don't care what anyone says.'

5/22/1977

Summer 1966 : 'You've got a bit carried away, haven't you Bill? Just because your name's Ramsey ... don't you think you're carrying tribal loyalty a little too far?'

5/31/1977

1969: 'Edwin, he's playing political games - which the law would call treason and he has to be stopped.'

6/5/1977

1971: 'I don't mind having to fight the rest of Fleet Street ... but when you've got to fight every inch of the way on your own paper, it's not worth it ...'

6/12/1977

1973/76 '... I have seen too much of people changing themselves about.... and visiting is one thing, but life over breakfast tables is quite another.'

6/19/1977

1977: 'You don't think we'll ever regret it, do you ... Canada, I mean ... emigrating?'