Payday

In the 1980s my grandad was building an extension on a big house in Barnes, London that belonged to Princess Diana’s cousin.

There was about 20 people working on the site including my dad, who was only 15 at the time. One Friday my grandad had to leave early. He had secretly given my dad all the men’s wages. They could not believe that a 15 year old boy had been carrying all of the cash in his …