The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, when an unprecedented gathering of as many as 100,000 young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco, creating a phenomenon of cultural and political rebellion. While hippies also gathered elsewhere in the US, and across Europe, San Francisco was the epicentre of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. Sounds like bollocks eh?

1st June 1967 - Sgt Pepper: Bought it the day it came out for 32 shillings and 6 pence.

Anyway, the Summer of Love supposedly became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness. In the UK this spelt the end of the road for Mods. It was time to get out your love beads.

September 1967: Summer was over and it was back to school - Kenyngton Manor in Sunbury-on-Thames (South of Watford) This year was the fifth form; we would all turn 16 years of age and faced the prospect of GCE 'O' Levels at the end of the school year.

From day one classmates were turning up at school and parking their Vespas, Lambrettas and motor bikes next to the bike racks, leaping off to light a cigarette and draping their arm around some girl. Bastard. How the hell did that happen?

Kenyngton Manor School, Beechwood Avenue, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. These are random people - it's the only pic of the school I have found. I started in 1963, around five years after this pic was taken.

Well, it happened because they were lucky enough to be born early in the school calendar year. My turn would not come until the last week of April - a lifetime away.

Then the 'first borns' began to pass their tests and pretty soon the girls began to arrive at school on the back of the scooters. Not a crash helmet in sight. Rarely were the girls seen on the back of the motor bikes however.