I have just come across this black and white photo of myself at the start in Hyde Park of the Brighton Run in 1963. I was with my father's old friend Owen Bridcott and we left London at 8:30am, taking about five hours to cover the 54 miles to Brighton. I made a warm hat out of my grand-mother's fox fur. The car was a de Dion Bouton.

Mrs Shakespeare was a flower seller on the corner of High Street Kensington for many years. In 1967 this photo of me smelling some carnations appeared in the local Kensington newspaper. My dress was from BIBA, the most popular shop in London at that time. I worked there for a while and had a cupboard full of Biba clothes which I wish I had kept as a bit of fashion history.