Jim Walker looks back at his life from his time at boarding school to national service.

I describe myself as a retired teacher. But I’ve also done work as actor; book-keeper; building labourer and others!

The college had been a children’s home. When the site opened as a college in 1965, the cottages which you...

In 1970, I returned to Britain from my teaching post at the University of Dar es Salaam.

What a difference from Uganda in climate! Fort Portal is over 5000 feet above sea level.

As I mentioned in the first part of Teaching in Uganda, the teachers’ wives did not work.

The school had no mains water or sewage and no grid electricity.

I spoke Russian and could get by in French and German.

I wanted to see what teaching was like and my brother got me a temporary job at a school

And that is how I got into Cambridge: no entrance exam, no interview – I just had to receive my...

In 1954 all young men had to do two years of national service. 

When the war started, I was only four years old, so I don’t really remember much about Christmastime until about...

The UK should do what Finland did from the early 1970s onwards: they abolished their fee-paying schools and instituted a...

From 1945 until 1957 we spent our summer holidays in Wales. At first, my parents hired a cottage called Gaerwen...

The window didn’t shatter, so I thought that I had proved my point. But it turned out that I hadn’t.

I was put in Rose dormitory, which slept about 12 of the youngest pupils; we were allowed to take a...