A Quote by Ashley Walters

I grew up on an estate in Peckham. — © Ashley Walters
I grew up on an estate in Peckham.

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It would be beautiful to be able to walk up and down Peckham still, because I love it; it's where I grew up. But it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people who love you but there's jealousy too.
I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.
I grew up on a council estate.
I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.
I grew up on a council estate in Camden and my mum and dad split up when I was about seven.
The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.
I grew up on a council estate. No one was working in our house.
When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.
When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.
I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.
I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family.
I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.
I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle.
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.
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