One of my most treasured jumble sale purchases is a set of six volumes of
Practical Householder magazine, 1955-1962. It probably cost about 50p and has provided endless interest and amusement.
The adverts are fascinating (and a surprising number of them feature women, unrolling the new miracle fibre glass loft insulation (yes, it's expensive at £6 to do the whole house, but so worth it to be warm!) or laying Marley flooring. This is just a random selection. (I've kept the photos relatively high-res so that you can zoom in.)
The 1950s man about the house undertakes bricklaying whilst wearing a tie and casually smoking a cigarette:
But do not let it be said that he's not ambitious. From just the one random issue that fell out of the binder, we have part 4 of how to build a bungalow:
And, very excitingly:
Cups of tea so far this February: 162
Online meetings so far this February: 40
What a memory jog that was... my dad used to take this magazine... thanks Sarah ;)
ReplyDeleteNot so strange to wear a collar and tie whilst doing building work. Barry the brush always (and still does) wears a tie and a clean ironed white shirt every day
ReplyDeleteWhilst thinking of the good old days, Channel have just erected a scaffold over the road and all of them were using old school swing overs rather the the new fangled battery powered nut runners
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