Back in the 1980, when I lived in a flat above a chip shop in Hither Green, I had a fantastic tea towel.
From a distance it looked just like one of those ‘Home Sweet Home’ embroidery things, but when you got closer you could see that it actually said “Class Warfare” at the top, and at the bottom it said “a return to traditional values.”
Our landlord had made a rather nasty enclosure for the water heater in the kitchen, clad in pine-effect veneer, and I fixed the tea towel to this, using some wooden beading I had knocking around. It just looked so right there that when I moved up to Brockley I left it behind. I really wish I still had it because it always made me smile whenever I looked at it.
I also had a postcard of the same design, probably by Leeds Postcards but that has been lost over the years too. I can’t even find a picture of it on the Internet now.
Not that I have ever really considered myself a class warrior, even in Thatcher’s Britain – I always found the middle classes too great a source of amusement to want to see them removed – it was just a great design.
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