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The 1940s Home (Paperback)
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The 1940s Home (Paperback)
Series: Shire Library
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Loot Price R199
Discovery Miles 1 990
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The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the
impacts Second World War. In the first five years of the decade,
homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The
1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast
tape on the windows, sandbags around the door, and a Morrison
shelter in the kitchen. In the garden, the lawn and shrubs gave way
to vegetable plot and chicken coop. For those lucky enough to have
a home left unscathed by the war the second half of the decade was
likely a time of consolidation snd continued rationing. The policy
of "make do and mend" continued. But for those whose houses were
damaged or destroyed, or those moved out of their homes by post-war
rehousing schemes, the picture was very different. For many the
pre-fab became home, and new designs of furniture made under the
utility scheme furnished rooms cheaply and stylishly. New estates,
different from anything tried before the war, arose from the
bombsites, offering state of the art sanitisation and modern
facilities to thousands.
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