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The 1950s Home (Britain's Heritage Series) Book
The 1950s was a decade of transformation, as Britain moved from austerity to relative affluence. After the Second World War, the incoming Labour government recognised the urgent need for new, high quality, housing and instituted a huge building programme which peaked in the fifties. Over the decade, of the 2.45 million homes that were constructed, two thirds were local authority social or council housing; many of them flats. Re-development schemes were especially radical in the major cities and the creation of new towns such as Hemel Hempstead and Peterlee brought a new and different mid-twentieth century vision of house building. Many new homes were very different from what had gone before, but inside new fashions and materials had an impact on every home, old and new. By the mid to … read more...
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