Recent content by Kieran

Rocker an interesting post, I think we forget just how must manufacturing was carried out with the home, and maybe still does, at a more specialist level. There does not seem to be too much documentary evidence of the more specialist trades such as components for time pieces. There is a post on...

That very interesting Expert Brummie, I wonder just how many other types of house factories existed.

Allbright Ale was widely sold in Swansea, up untill a few years ago, being a poor student at the time it was very popular. 99p per pint in 2001

Len that sounds fantastic Len.

Elizabeth, Thats very much how I remember things being, but the women I visited as a very young 6 year ish, had this wonderfull maching hanging on the wall. Odd I have never smoked in my life, but it was facinating then, it must have been for the image still to be there after 45 years. Many...

I never thought I would have received so much help on my thread, This is great site for research, mybe my London colleges should join up. Thank you for all your help. Talking to other historians, there seems to be an agreement that there would be very little photographic evidence, does anyone...

Thanks Old Boy, I agree with your statement about machines not being broken into back thouse days. Yet in some parts of the world today, I have Dubai in mind, shop keepers leave their goods out on the street even when closed (40 inch flat screens for the taking, if you dare). Does that not show...

Very new to this so please be patient. I am trying to research homes and trading in 1950's 1960's Britain. As I was born in 1960, I have a vague recollection of people trading goods, mainly food from their home parlours. I have spoken to a few people that have confirmed my memories. My request...