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Janine Hilton was born at Bolton in 1977, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, and now lives in Northampton.
Some of my best memories are of my summer holidays visiting my grandparents, who lived at 24 Drewitt Crescent in Crossens, Southport.
I remember spending rainy days walking round and round with a huge broom sweeping puddles into the drains. I must only have been about six or seven, but I took it so seriously.
Mr Ogdin's shop stands out in my mind. I went back a couple of years ago, in the year 200, and he was still there, but I still didn't dare go in.
Most of all I remember all the local children sitting on the doorstep while my granddad, sporting a huge bushy beard, would tell us stories, and have infinite space on his lap for anyone who needed a hug.
There was a pair of sisters, I recall, that myself and my younger cousin Mary used to play with, called Eleanor and Lucy Gordon. Lucy had the curliest hair I've ever seen, for as the day wore on, it would stand on end in tiny little ringlets.
I also remember a Rose Queen Parade, with me wearing a fairy costume, and Mary with the local Morris dancing troupe, shaking her pompoms.
Janine Hilton, Northampton, 2002
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