As a fellow post war baby boomer I thoroughly enjoyed your site. Although I lived in London for the first 20 or so years, I have now lived in Kent (Gillingham) for over 40 years so find your Kentish memories particularly interesting.

I will call again for another fry-up in the Greasy Spoon.
Regards, Peter

great website brings back lots of memories cant leave it alone! this will encourage more elderly people to sign up to the internet, I have many friends well into their sixties considering thinking about having a go with computers after seeing this great stuff!! thank you.

I have been looking for a site like this.
My childhood era appears to have faded away with no more than an occasional mention. I am saddened at being rebuffed during conversations about events I remember from what I consider to be a respectful but legislative free time. You were safe, you were encouraged to explore. The 50's as a topic, gets moved on swiftly to the 60's or the 70's and of course we have the continual programming schedules of the 30's and 40's.
Playing on bomb sites had its dangers, a cut here and a bruise there, not one person I knew had any serious injuries, we had no 'Health & Safety' just our common sense. We looked left, we looked right and we looked left again before crossing the road. Holidays were spent making a camp in the woods and sleeping out in all weathers, showers were short rain falls, joining the Cubs and then The Boy Scouts, learning about ourselves far away from Parents. Oh and Big Brother (not even an embryo then) if ever there was a case for Amniocentesis!
WE WERE ALLOWED TO GROW UP, I think, as God intended.

Just a fantastic nostalgic website that brings back so many simple memories long forgotten.

As a graphic designer of many years I found the site excellent to navigate and very well thought out ... who needs loads of 'Flash'? :-)

Great way to stir the old memories.

60.s God ,makes me want to cry, as a teenager we all worked,all had a little money for trivialities,all us lads had a m/bike then later a car(paid for)...No problems with racisism(there were no one but us natives)or immigration,legal or otherwise. christ,makes me want to cry when I think what the dickhead politicians have done to the country. 50 years paying tax and I don.t even get a enough pension to live on or a guarantee of a hospital bed when the time comes..

I yearn to go back to the Fifties when everybody had hope and looks forward to the future. Here we are living in the future and I feel sorry for the poor young people of today. Those days were wonderful. People were allowed to smoke, drink and socialise in the pubs, go out dancing, coffee shops, full English breakfast, Routemaster buses, sweet shops (I used to love Pez sweets, sugar mice, bag of sweets for sixpence, Mummy and Daddy and lovely my lovely brothers. We used to play outside with fear of an sssstrangers. Oh how I long for yesterday!

Brilliant website, the only 50s site i found that was English!

I was trying to put together a little quiz for a 50th birthday party, your site was very helpful.

I was also very suprised to see the photo of Clokes in Borough Green, since i grew up there myself!

Claire

Really great site thanks a lot for all the hard work which must have gone into it.

Loved the site. Growing up in the 50s and 60s can relate to it all. Was a budding pop star myself but never got past the 'bud' stage. Wore the suits and brothel creepers. Had a motorbike. Married young. Young mum and dad. Looking back loved it all. Huddersfield lad. Now in Australia. Never thought in the 60s that I'd be in mi 60s someday!!!! Still plonk on guitar. Dream not dead yet!!!!!!