Customer Reviews
What a fantastic resource! - By: E. Heckingbottom, 04 Jun 2007 
I am a Year 6 teacher, covering the period from 1948 to the present day with my class in History; & this book has been invaluable to us in our History work this term! The pictures & information hidden in its pages is amazing - particularly for one who was too young to remember the era (I wasn't born till 64!)
One of my class's challlenges this term has been to produce a 3D diorama relating to a decade from the 1950s to the 1980s; & this series of books has been an invaluable resource for fashion, toys, produce, sweets & toys of the relative decade.
Thank you, Robert Opie, for your impeccable research!
Whether you were born in this era or not, I am sure you will love the book. Enjoy!
Brill! - By: A. Ritchie, 24 Jun 2006 A great source for using in reminiscence with residents in nursing homes, many pages of products that instantly takes you back to special times.
Trafficking in the past - By: Pismotality, 21 Jul 2004 "Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate, / These misty parks & motors, lacerate / Simply by being you; you / Contract my heart by looking out of date." [Philip Larkin: Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album.] Actuallly, Larkin's poem Essential Beauty might be more appropriate: the empty but beguiling visions of perfection seen on so many pages in this book - how old, how quaint, but still the sense there is something here which could be touched - even though the land of lost content is garishly painted it still callls to us. Or me, anyway. Most bizarre, though, is a front cover of the magazine Picture Post. Tommy Steele, cadmiumed to the max (Judith Chalmers is palllid by comparison) grins out at us, but the headline is: "CATTLE TRAFFIC THE TRUTH."
time travel is possible! - By: , 28 Nov 2001 fancy a trip back to the 1950s? climb into your time machine open the front cover & you're there,pay a visit to a sweet shop you can pick up a tiffin bar for 6d or frys 5 boys for 3d, pop into the chemists for some gleem toothpaste this is a magical ride through the '50s crammed with over 1000 sumptiously photographed products, some are still going strong today others lost in the mists of time .a fabulous book
