Jubilee 1977

1952: ' It's time for a change ... it's time I changed ... I want to move into the 20th century ... even if it is half-over.'

1953: 'Well, it's like a sort of Sunday, innit? We always have egg and fried bread on Sunday. I bet the Queen will have a cooked breakfast this mornin...

1954/55 : 'When I think of what " going to the pictures" meant before the war ... everybody used to go then, at least once a week ... some people twic...

1956/57: 'If he's on the level, this is the intelligence coup of the decade ... but if it isn't ... we'd be walking straight into the biggest trap in...

1958/59: 'I wouldn't be upset. I don't think they sleep in ditches. I'm sure Canon Collins doesn't.'

1960-61: I've spent the last week with the lawyers and the tax wallahs. They won't budge ... We're going to have to sell Castle Meryon.'

1962/63: 'There's never been a time for people like you and me to make it quite like there is now. You want to be a photographer. Well I think you cou...

1964: 'There's good girls and there's bad girls. But when good girls make a mistake, they've a right to a second chance. I don't care what anyone says...

Summer 1966 : 'You've got a bit carried away, haven't you Bill? Just because your name's Ramsey ... don't you think you're carrying tribal loyalty a l...

1969: 'Edwin, he's playing political games - which the law would call treason and he has to be stopped.'

1971: 'I don't mind having to fight the rest of Fleet Street ... but when you've got to fight every inch of the way on your own paper, it's not worth...

1973/76 '... I have seen too much of people changing themselves about.... and visiting is one thing, but life over breakfast tables is quite another.'

1977: 'You don't think we'll ever regret it, do you ... Canada, I mean ... emigrating?'