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About the early 1900s material
About the 1940s & 1950s material
Victorian/Edwardian terrace houses
The housing estate
Room plans
The front garden
The parlour
The kitchen
The scullery
The bedrooms
The back yard & garden
The flush lavatory
Computer models / reconstructions
Chamber pots
Sash windows
Washing facilities
Cooking & heating facilities: kitchen range
Hot water facilities
Lighting facilities: gas lamps
Mice
Rubbish disposal
Older properties
Open fire cooking & heating
Lighting facilities: oil lamps
The outdoor privy lavatory
Into the 1930s & 50s
Hot water & heating facilities
Coal fires
Gas fires
Electric fires
Paraffin heaters
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University
halls of residence
Early 1900s
School
Children out of school
Women's work
Monday: washday, Tuesday ironing
Shopping - see shops below
Food preparation
Cleaning
Needlecraft
Men's activities
Men's General activities
Mending boots & shoes
Storing root vegetables
Going on a journey
Death
Funerals
Death of a baby sister
Annual events
Preparing for Christmas
Christmas
May Days
Harvest festivals
1930s
Telegrams
Setting up home
Insuring household contents
Home maintenance
1940s and 50s
School
School: 4-11 years
School: 11-18 years
The London Underground (tube)
Overland trains
why trains?
buying tickets
station platforms
compartments and corridors
1st, 2nd & 3rd class
Train windows
Train doors
Buses in London's suburbia
London buses
waiting for a bus
buying a bus ticket
Cars
private cars
level crossings
the AA man
How families spent their money
Annual family expenditure
Monthly family expenditure
Listening to the radio
Vintage radios
Going to the cinema
Saturday morning pictures
Telephoning
From home
From public phone boxes
With candlestick phones
The telephone exchange
Telegraph poles and telephone lines
A dying skill
How to speed knit
The knitting yarn
Knitting patterns and needles
Reading
Writing letters
Old writing
desks
Bureaus
Posting letters
Receiving letters
World War One: home front
Wounded soldiers: Edmonton
Military Hospital
Air raids
Munitions factory explosions
Miscellaneous recollections
Street peace party
World War Two & aftermath: home front
Overview
The beginning
Air Raid Precautions (ARP)
Bomb shelters / air raid shelters
Window protection against bomb blast
Evacuees
Air raids
Blitz in north London
Mail from the forces overseas
The fun side for children
Children's healthcare
Miscellaneous observations
Peace parties
The aftermath
Memorials
Rationing in World War Two
How rationing worked
Food rationing
Clothes rationing
Shortages
Ration-book meals
Food scraps collections
Luxuries & treats
Food scraps collections
Eating out and 'British Restaurants'
Plants from seed
Creative houseplants
Early 1900s
Shopping
Services to the home
1940s-50s
Social aspects of shopping
Packaging of purchases
Weighing goods out
The grocer
The dairy
The greengrocer
The coal yard
More shops
Early 1900s
Gas street lighting
Policemen
Street traders
Gasometers ( - 1960s)
Fogs
Long gone sights
Early 1900s Edmonton (for the early 1900s recollections)
The locality of old Edmonton
Old Edmonton town in photos - with notes
Old rural Edmonton in photos - with
notes
Silver Street, old Edmonton
The school
The pupils & teachers
Institutions in Silver Street, Edmonton
Pymmes Villas, Edmonton
Edmonton windmill & Windmill Road
Edmonton then & now in photos
