Were the 50s really so dull and drab? I know it's become the received view, as a prelude to talking about how exciting the 60s were, but it seems to come from people who grew up with colour TV, never mind colour film, and can't imagine life in black and white.
Only it wasn't actually in black and white, of course. I was born in 1951, so this isn't exactly an objective view, but there was a sense of new things happening, wasn't there? We were post-war, there was the Festival of Britain, and the coronation. My parents bought a car, and we went to Europe for holidays, and marched from Aldermaston...
Sorry, I can see this becoming quite a bee in my bonnet!
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Only it wasn't actually in black and white, of course. I was born in 1951, so this isn't exactly an objective view, but there was a sense of new things happening, wasn't there? We were post-war, there was the Festival of Britain, and the coronation. My parents bought a car, and we went to Europe for holidays, and marched from Aldermaston...
Sorry, I can see this becoming quite a bee in my bonnet!