Rather than stick to still images, I began looking for moving images of the 1960s since a lot of people, more than you think, had movie cameras in those days.
The BBC was a first choice and the link below is to the page shown in the photo to the right which was an attempt by the BBC to gather home movies of the 1960s together on YouTube. The idea was to use these to accompany a program put on by Andrew Marr called A History Of Modern Britain.
It’s a great idea and somewhere on YouTube there are more than the few films shown in the page referred to below but I can’t find them and neither can I find the group that was set up. However, the films are worth a look from the BBC link and if anyone knows the link to get to the YouTube group perhaps they can leave a comment below.
The page on the BBC website is here.
There is also a BBC magazine page for the 1960s which is here.
And the still photos of the period referred to in the magazine which are worth a look are here.
Fibre-glass, glass fibre or fibreglass as it was called was one of the wonder materials of the plastic age that seemed to find it’s way into all walks of life in the 1960s.
Until the 1960s most jobs around the house were done by tradesmen and most furnishing were purchased ready made. The concept of actually putting something together yourself would, not just have raised eyebrows, you’d have been laughed out of the house. So what changed?
I recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were.
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