I can remember the 60's and 70's, ferrets, air guns and a motley pack of dogs wandering the blackthorn scrub filled chalk quarries, woods populated with Elm trees or fields with the churring of Corn buntings. In a way hard times in that we didn't have much but saying that we didn't have much less than the middle classes either and importantly we had good safety nets. We lived in a council house for an affordable rent, had a decent NHS with a GP when needed, who would actually come out to see the elderly, everyone had a dentist along with reasonable schooling etc so maybe not so terrible a time