"It was the first time that working-class lads could become really rich and move up the British social scale."

You see, as a working-class lad, I had more to prove to myself than Andrew had.

I'm a working-class lad, you're an aristocrat.

Now they were working-class lads with no proper schooling and accents he could scarcely understand.

Stewart is the opposite of Gemma; a working-class lad from Dagenham who speaks the Queen's English.

All working-class lads, from a modest area of Manchester.

Paul Willis, in his book Learning to Labour (1977), noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads.

Here, too, a working-class lad loses his girl to an outsider in a top hat.

GOLF wasn't a game played much in Wales when I was young - at least not by working-class lads.

Minton began to take an interest in this working-class lad with his Italian ice-cream-seller looks, sunny character and ebullient gregariousness.