CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Wednesday 17 February 2021

Practical Householder

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



3 comments:

  1. What a memory jog that was... my dad used to take this magazine... thanks Sarah ;)

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  2. Not 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

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  3. Whilst 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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