Awaiting his arrival, in a pub near his home, were about 60 individuals of a similar age, from an array of different working backgrounds: sales and social work, care and computers, business and boilers, management and machinery.
What they all shared was that, somewhere between the late 1970s and early 1980s, they had been regular members of my youth club in Bournville, Birmingham. They had grown up together in the same vicinity and gone to the same schools. The youth club was an integral part of that experience. Most went their separate ways around the age of 21 but, through clusters of friendship groups, they have stayed in touch. They rendezvous these days for significant birthdays and for funerals; it used to be for christenings and weddings.
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