Snapshots Of Britain.

[anotheoldgit]

Just thought I would share for your comments these lovely photos of a long ago Britain, I noticed that most men in those days wore collars and ties, the ladies were most smartly dressed and one could leave one's bike unchained.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2931389/From-Queen-Mother-prime-day-beach-Box-colour-slides-bought-13-car-boot-sale-shows-Britain-looked-innocent-age.html

[pusskin]

Brilliant pictures anotheroldgit! Good that they have been found.

[Peter Pedant]

absolutely fascinating
thx AOG
I was six in 1958 so I identify with the skool outing
The kids parents income in St Ives seems much higher than my home town ( Darzet aaaargh )
I recollect many more dirty faces - some decades before the compulsory one bath a week even if you don't need it - boys with brylcreem and girls with squinty eyes and big big bows

The colour-system is evocative- the colour dyes age and give a washed out look. [ Not Agfa nor Kodak ] - the DNA film with Jeff Goldblum as Crick was filmed with this colour-stock which gave that modern film an instant 1952 look

Quite quite fascinating

Oh the Bryant shop front ( "unknown" ) is in St VIes by the way and appears in another later photog.

Colour photogz - does anyone remember how expensive they were in the fifties ?

[naomi24]

I noticed the hats - lots of ladies wearing hats. The woman eating al fresco with her husband in St Ives looks identical to the lady sitting in a deckchair at the Bournemouth Round Table Conference. Even the sandals look the same. She got around!

[Gavmacp]

Lovely photos but though it appeared to be a more innocent time wasn't true.

[stuey]

Great photos, AOG. I remember leaving my bike propped up on the curb, and coming back an hour or so later to find it still there. I'm wondering why American troops were still in England in 1960.

[mikey4444]

Lovely colours in those photos ! But I can never recall anybody taking photos in colour back then. My parents had a shop in the 1960's, in Watchet, Somerset and we were an agent for a photo developers in Minehead. I would say that less than 1 person in 10 bought colour film stock, as it was so expensive. Most the photos in our family albums are in B+W !

[Peter Pedant]

oh there were no thieves in Britain in the fifties and the prisons were advertising for inmates

yeah I ignored that bit

altho you could get an assisted passage to Oz for £10

[mikey4444]

They are still here now Stuey and they still prove an endless attraction to the local girls near their bases !

[stuey]

I wonder how many of those photos were taken with a Kodak Brownie?

[Peter Pedant]

erm none I would have thought....

who would put a colour film in a Brownie ( cost 22/6 ) I recollect

[janbee]

Wonderful pics. Thank you AOG xx

[mikey4444]

Was colour stock film made for the Box Brownie ? It was 120 or 220 as I recall. Not sure but my recollection of the 60's says that most people used Kodak Instamatics, or Kodak 127's. I think I still have an Instamatic somewhere !

[murraymints]

dad still has a brownie Stuey ! and it works.....great pics..I can almost smell them !

[bhg481]

I used to use slide film in the early sixties and recall it costing around 1 shilling (5p) per slide. When our daughter was born in 1967 I lashed out on a print film and remember it cost around £2 for 12 pictures. My income in those days was around £30 per month after tax.

[naomi24]

Mikey, I thought you were raised in London?

[stuey]

Mikey, so the saying "Over sexed; over paid; and over here." is still applicable:)

[mikey4444]

Until the age of 9 and a half ( 1961-2 ) Naomi, them we moved to Watchet, where my Mum and Dad bought a small sweet shop. We moved to Wales in 1968.

But our sojourn in Somerset accounts for the fact that myself and my three younger brothers only have about 5 teeth between us !

[mikey4444]

Indeed it is Stuey ! My Aunties used to giggle a lot whenever GI's were mentioned, and my Uncles all changed the subject as soon as possible.

[naomi24]

Thanks Mikey. I was sure you'd mentioned living in London. (Parents bought a shop? Blimey - you were posh!) ;o)

[anotheoldgit]

Regarding the couple eating Al fresco on their patio outside their home, don't they mean their 'front path'?