"Where there wasn't mud there was fog, and in between was us enjoying ourselves."

 Victorian teenagers reminisce...

 

  

 

"Of course, there was no such thing as anything but of course." 

 

  Former "grizzleguts" Effy Jones recalls her graduation from mooning about, to bicycles and typewriters, while existentialist art student Berta Ruck gives us a song from the gutter, in this cracking clip from the BBC Archive. Accompanying it: more great shots from Pamela Raith of "Bleak Expectations", tickets for which you can still buy here. But be quick, because it ends Saturday. "Well, why weren't you quicker plugging it then, Simon? It's clear from these pictures you've quite a lot of time off." Well, why don't you shush?

 

Teenage Wasteland!