These pictures were found deep inside my subconcious and reflect imagined 1960's childhood memories, aspirations and fears !

When I was five years old I wanted to be an astronaut and hoped that the aliens I encountered would be friendly , this was the era of Telstar, moon landings and optimism.

I have no memory of this "old" faded family photo from 1969

I thought I would grow up in a brighter better new world, childhood optimism ?

When I look around me now I see a fractured decaying society and a breakdown of community values ,whatever happened to our future ?

Did we buy washing machines when we should have been building launderettes ?

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