“And all along the ride there were patches of blue-black darkness, then sudden glares and flares of dazzling light.�
“Black and white didn’t mix back then.”
“The cowboys in pitched, battle with milk bottles and dustbin lids.�
“There’d been rioting between whites and coloured, but what could you expect in a provincial dump out there among the sticks?”
“Broken milk bottles everywhere scattering the cracked asphalt roads like snow, and cars parked in the streets looking as if they’re stolen or abandoned.”
“When the torch paper was really lit, igniting the worst racial violence Britain had ever seen.�
“No bike-chain? No flick knife? No iron bar? And as a matter of fact, he wasn’t wearing his full Teddy uniform either...”