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For the baby-boomer generation, the 1950s was a decade characterized by Liberty bodices, suspender belts, black Bakelite phones, Ford Populars, Sooty puppets, and Meccano sets, while the 1960s featured "Ready Steady Go," Radio Luxembourg, "going to work on an egg," Lambrettas, mini cars, Biba, and The Beatles. This nostalgic volume collects personal reminiscences from baby-boomers from all over Britain that recall the happy, changing decades of the mid-century. Featuring celebrity contributions from Richard Branson, Patricia Hodge, Maureen Lipman, Jon Snow, Joanna Lumley, Sir David Hare, Simon Hoggart, Robert Lacey, Twiggy Lawson, Richard Neville, Lord Saatchi, and Sue Townsend, these funny, poignant, and sometimes sad vignettes will take you back to the 1950s childhood innocence and the fab days of the 1960s.
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This review is from: The 50s & 60s; The Best of Times: Growing Up and Being Young in Britain (Paperback)
For anyone that grew up in the U.K. in the late 50s and swinging 60s this book is an absolute must.
You will be able to recall the sounds, sights and smells of the snips that are featured in this book. We were cracked up with laughter as we remembered so many of the incidents relating to T.V. advertisements, washing powders, bubble gum, buses and everything that we all lived through during that period. Alison has captured the features amazingly - makes you realize how great those times were. Loved it and would thoroughly recommend
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Nostalgia,
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This review is from: The 50s & 60s; The Best of Times: Growing Up and Being Young in Britain (Paperback)
I bought this as a Christmas gift. Having glanced through it I gave it with the proviso that I wanted to borrow it back. Excellent nostalgic material for baby boomers and an insight into life in the fifties and sixties for their children.
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YOU HAD TO BE THERE,
By Purplesoo "Purplesoo" (Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 50s & 60s; The Best of Times: Growing Up and Being Young in Britain (Paperback)
I bought them as individual books after seeing a review of the '60's' in my local paper. Both books are delightful, full of nostalgia and things I had forgotten all about. It was like being wrapped in a nice warm blanket which smelt of every nice smell you ever remember. (And the knowing I had been born just in time for the best of times).Well done Alison.
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