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Home page with search facility
About the early 1900s material
About the 1940s & 1950s material



Housing: houses, cottages, etc.

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



Daily life

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

Road transport
Trains

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

Children's health care

Travelling

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

Family finances

How families spent their money
Annual family expenditure
Monthly family expenditure

Radio

Listening to the radio
Vintage radios

Cinemas

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

Knitting

A dying skill
How to speed knit
The knitting yarn
Knitting patterns and needles

Reading

Going to the library

Writing and receiving letters

Writing letters
Old writing desks
Bureaus
Posting letters
Receiving letters

Miscellanea



War

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



Shops

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



Street scenes

Early 1900s

Gas street lighting
Policemen
Street traders
Gasometers ( - 1960s)
Fogs
Long gone sights

1900s-1960s-gasometers.htm


Local places

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



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