It is very easy to forget, living in the 21st Century, just how far we have progressed as a society (technologically speaking!) in a very short space of time. So many of the things that we take for granted today around the house and at work were either unheard of or in their infancy in the 1930’s...

FEW TELEVISIONS

Very few families would have had a television in the 1930’s. Most houses would have had a radio, or ‘wireless’, so that they could listen to the latest news or music. The whole family would listen to radio programmes together, much like how we watch television today.

NO CENTRAL HEATING

Most houses would have had a wood or coal burning stove in their kitchen to cook on. This stove would also help to heat the kitchen as they did not have central heating to keep their houses warm. To warm up the rest of the house most rooms, including bedrooms, had an open fire. However, as wood could be expensive to buy, most people kept warm in the night by sleeping with lots of clothes on!