Britain in the 1950s: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times - Memories of a Post-War Decade

The 1950s was the decade of the Queen’s Coronation and the Festival of Britain; of family shops and pea—souper smogs; listening to the wireless and watching the box; when money was counted in pounds, shillings and pence and weights were in pounds and ounces. It was when children walked to school and ‘six of the best’ was a painful experience; postmen wore uniforms with peaked hats and chimney sweeps rode bikes with their brushes and poles balanced on their shoulders; milk and bread were del...