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From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping
Do you remember Pathé News?
Taking the train to the seaside?
The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers?
Knitted bathing costumes?
Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age.
But for those born around then, this era of childhood feels like yesterday. This delightful collection of photographic memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade; they include pictures of children enjoying life out on the streets and bombsites, at home and at school, on holiday and at events.
These wonderful period pictures and descriptive captions will bring back this decade of childhood, and jog memories about all aspects of life as it was in post-war Britain.
18th November, 2020 in Local & Family History, Society & Culture
The cobbled streets of Leeds were paved with gold, industrial gold, that only found its way into entrepreneurial pockets of men clad in stiff white collars, frock coats, and gold Albert watchchains draped across their plump abdomens. Shoeless street urchins, gambolled from cobble…
3rd May, 2017 in History, Society & Culture
In 1951 towns and cities across Britain still bore the devastating scars of the Second World War which had ended only six years earlier. After more than a decade of rationing, austerity and making-do, gloomy post-war Britain needed a lift. The government’s antidote was ‘The…
22nd July, 2016 in History, Society & Culture
The 1960s was arguably the most upbeat and exciting decade of the twentieth century and beyond. Even those who argue against this have to concede that for most of us it was the decade in which our whole way of life changed for the better, like never before in modern history. The…
16th December, 2015 in Society & Culture, Women in History
Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. While much of the antenatal advice was sensible, if a trifle extreme, it has become a source of on-going debate over the years as to the value of the strictures laid down concerning the actual r…
