Things were a lot different in 1910

[RJUKL]

In the last 100 years there have been hundreds of great inventions and discoveries that have improved living in this country both in the home, healthwise and in many other respects but there are also lots of things we have "lost" in the interim. I am glad I was not living at that time because of the horrors of the two world wars. But I can list a few things that we did without and managed very well. Here goes....

Additives to our food ("E" numbers for instance)
Junk mail
Post codes
Supermarkets and the endless choices we have to make over every purchase
Canned dog and cat food
Loyalty cards
The euro
Television

[jno]

but they died a lot younger. Life expectancy in the 20th century (in the UK) went up from 45 to 75 for men, 49 to 80 for women.

[DrFilth]

old trafford opened in 1910 and you watch the match while having a fag and no one batted an eyelid