The Co-Op's Got Bananas Quotes

“Johnstone railway station was small, neat and tidy, quite attractive. On the platforms, I noticed that the signs also had the name in Gaelic – ‘Baile Iain’, literally ‘John’s town’. It is a recent wheeze by the triumphant, all-conquering Scottish National Party to add the Gaelic name to every station in the whole of Scotland, despite the fact that most of these places never had a Gaelic name or people who ever spoke Gaelic.”
― Hunter Davies, The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

“I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders.”
― Hunter Davies, The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North