DO CHILDHOOD DREAMS COME TRUE?

In 1969, thousands of children were asked by scientists to predict their futures. Fifty years on, what did life deal them?

IN 1969, Margaret Thatcher became Shadow Education Secretary, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and 10,000 11-year-olds — all born in a single week in 1958 — wrote essays predicting their lives at 25.

Either about to leave primary school, or newly arrived at secondaries — they described their hopes and ambitions. All were part of the National Child Development Study, which has kept track of their lives every decade for 60 years.

This year, those baby boomers turned 60 and, here, five of them talk to BETH HALE about how their childhood dreams have matched up to half a century of reality.