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Summary: What a fantastic resource!
Comment: I am a Year 6 teacher, covering the period from 1948 to the present day with my class in History; and this book has been invaluable to us in our History work this term! The pictures and information hidden in its pages is amazing - particularly for one who was too young to remember the era (I wasn't born till 64!)
One of my class's challenges this term has been to produce a 3D diorama relating to a decade from the 1950s to the 1980s; and this series of books has been an invaluable resource for fashion, toys, produce, sweets and toys of the relative decade.
Thank you, Robert Opie, for your impeccable research!
Whether you were born in this era or not, I am sure you will love the book. Enjoy!
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Summary: Brill!
Comment: A great source for using in reminiscence with residents in nursing homes, many pages of products that instantly takes you back to special times.
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Summary: Trafficking in the past
Comment: "Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate, / These misty parks and motors, lacerate / Simply by being you; you / Contract my heart by looking out of date." [Philip Larkin: Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album.] Actually, Larkin's poem Essential Beauty might be more appropriate: the empty but beguiling visions of perfection seen on so many pages in this book - how old, how quaint, but still the sense there is something here which could be touched - even though the land of lost content is garishly painted it still calls to us. Or me, anyway. Most bizarre, though, is a front cover of the magazine Picture Post. Tommy Steele, cadmiumed to the max (Judith Chalmers is pallid by comparison) grins out at us, but the headline is: "CATTLE TRAFFIC THE TRUTH."
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Summary: time travel is possible!
Comment: fancy a trip back to the 1950s? climb into your time machine open the front cover and you're there,pay a visit to a sweet shop you can pick up a tiffin bar for 6d or frys 5 boys for 3d, pop into the chemists for some gleem toothpaste this is a magical ride through the '50s crammed with over 1000 sumptiously photographed products, some are still going strong today others lost in the mists of time .a fabulous book
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