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Fifty years ago, Saturday, June 6, 1970, was, for us as a family, looking set to be much like any other Saturday. A fairly regular pattern was that if we hurried up, got breakfast down us and made the short drive from home in Findon village, we would start with shopping in Worthing town centre.

The rush was to get parked in one of our preferred locations in time to get enough sixpences into the parking meter for a full two hours stay, starting bang on nine o’clock shop opening time.

Our preferred destination by far was the parking bays in Portland Road to the north of Shelly Road. There were several distinct agendas behind that preference. For my parents, M&S and Boots lay a short distance ahead, just as they still do today. In addition, for my father, brother and I, not particularly well disguised dual ulterior motives also lay close at hand in the form of The Record Centre at 22 Portland Road and the showroom of

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