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Hello I'm not really sure how old I was when I first became puzzled by the vaguaries of social class, but I suspect

it was in my early teenage years when under my mother's insistence I began to think of myself as middle class, as well socially superior to my friends

from working class bootle. But if we were middle class, how might one classify the residents of the neighborhood that lay between

our Crosby house and the River Mersey, the area called Blundell Sands or Blundell-Sands

as we kids like to call it, houses that you could only glimpse from the road

because of their long driveways and elaborate front gardens and double parking spaces.

Houses with names like The Coach House and the Lodge and Woodlands.

Well my mother had a ready explanation. The Blundled Sands people were also middle class just like ourselves but with one marginal

difference they were well rich. Well I remember my teenage fascination with

this distinctive group of people.

As I was reading a new book by sociologist Caroline Knowles, you see like me

Caroline had an early childhood fascination with the wealthy residence in her area, those who lived in cavernous

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