When I started senior school, age 11, I had to get the bus to school for the first time - the fare was 2p return! The stop for the return journey was outside a sweet shop - how brilliant was that! We would all rush into the shop to be served by Mr Hastings. I always chose Parma Violets and even today the smell or taste of them transports me back to that bus journey home, 49 years ago.

Karen Bond