In 1977, when the nation celebrated the Queen's Silver Jubilee, teenager Jan refused to join the local street party. She remembers looking out of her window at the festivities and scorning the neighbourhood competition to produce the most colourful Jubilee decorations

Jan's father had recently died and although her mother did not attend the street party she hung a large patriotic display featuring magazine cuttings from their window.

"My mother's generation just didn't question monarchy and their purpose - ours did, especially the punks. We didn't just blindly follow things. I think the jubilee really showed up the divide between old and young and the traditional and new, more questioning, thinking."

Jan recalls seeing punk band the Sex Pistols on the evening news after they were arrested for performing their song 'God save the Queen' on a boat on the Thames.

'Me and my friends loved it all. I remember watching the coverage of the boat incident when it was on TV. We just thought it was great. On the one hand we had these rich people living an incredibly privileged life, on the other there were so many disaffected; life for many young people appeared bleak and futureless. There was a real sense of injustice at the time, so when the Sex Pistols came along it was what we'd been waiting for.'

Looking back, however, she sees things differently: 'the camaraderie from my parents' generation has gone to a degree now, it's a shame.'