AN ICE cream van has just pulled up across the road.

Back in the early 1960s I lived at Rotherfield Crescent in Hollingbury.

From what I remember, we had five ice cream vans visiting a day back then.

They were Walls, Lyons Maid, Eldorado, Mr Whippy, Mr Softee.

My favourite was Lyons Maid.

In June 1963 there was a top 20 hit record called Ice Cream Man by The Tornadoes.

It certainly got us in the mood for summer.

Billy Fury also had a big hit called, yes you got it, In Summer.

I had better stop now, otherwise I will be waxing lyrical about the hits of 1963.

This was the year of my last few weeks at school.

Then I got a job in a factory. When I got paid, it was great.

Ian Steedman Worthing