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EDF Energy Electricity Hall - Amberley - 29.8.2013

EDF Energy Electricity Hall - Amberley - 29.8.2013
Lots of 'My Mum/Granny had one of those' can be heard here!
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 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
These are very different from the U.S. in the 60s.
When we left England, mid-60s, we didn't have a washing machine, fridge, clothes dryer or dishwasher. I remember as a kid thinking that you must just chuck all the dishes in a clothes dryer-like thing and somehow they had invented a way for them not to break. haha
The Shelburne Museum, which is close to where I live, features special exhibits. Some years ago they converted a small house to a perfect reproduction of a 1950s house - furniture, crockery, wallpaper, the whole thing - and you could hear everyone saying the same sort of thing. "We had that exact china set, we had that same TV!", etc.
Very fun.
3 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
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The turning point for my Mum was when my twin sisters were born in the mid-50s, bringing the family to a total of seven. Dad thought it would help to have a Bendix washing machine - all those Terry towelling nappies to wash. Then when the twins added to the crockery that needed washing up we got a Rolls Colston dishwasher, like the one at top left.
There are a number of museums around the UK that have houses and shops recreating different eras. Sometimes they have actually moved whole houses from redevelopment areas and rebuilt them in a replica village. Crich Tramway Museum is one www.tramway.co.uk/explore/village-scene
Blists Hill at Ironbridge is another www.ironbridge.org.uk/explore/blists-hill-victorian-town/#attraction-map
I have been to Ironbridge, but that was before I took many photos, but I haven't been to Crich.
3 years ago.

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