Life On Mars?

摘要

They say when you leave a place, you should never go back. And as I was standing at the train station in Barking, East London, looking at the rain, I was beginning to agree. I had not walked out of this station for more than 30 years but, incredibly, my first impression was that nothing much had changed. The Wimpy restaurant was still there, as was the Spotted Dog pub and, almost surreally, an old red Routemaster bus was parked opposite. All this did little to allay the unnerving feeling I had suffered the same fate as detective inspector Sam Tyler in BBC TV's Life On Mars series - and somehow, been transported back to 1975. This was Barking as I remembered it. My first proper job on leaving school in 1975 was as a student environmental health officer (EHO) with Barking LBC. Dagenham wasn't added until later.