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How people lived: miscellanea, early-to-mid 20thC: Contents list

Scroll down for sections with clickable links to pages on what everyday life used to be like in the early-mid 20th century, told by people who were there at the time, with added research by the webmaster: women's issues, pre-digital, annual events, labour-saving devices, dying skills, death, random observations and more about the locations of contributors.

Women's Issues and Childcare
early-mid 20th Century

• Prenatal care
• Unwanted pregnancy
• Childbirth across the years
• Nappies mid 20th century
• Children's healthcare
• Children's dental care
• More medical experiences
• Polio the dreaded disease
• Gender equality and sexism

Pre-digital Timing
and Weighing

• The 'right' time
• Egg timers
• Clocks
• Pocket watches
• Wrist watches
• Balance scales for weighing
• Spring scales for weighing

Pre-digital Calculating,
Filing and Weather Forecasting

• Slide rules for calculating
• Log tables for calculating
• Pocket financial calculators
• Calculating machines
• Filing documents
• How barometers forecast
  weather

Death, Victorian and early 20th Century

• To do list at a death
• Funeral processions
• Postillions in funeral
  processions
• Funerals
• Funeral wakes
• Costs of dying
• Death of a child
• Flu and pandemics

Annual Events and Celebrations
early 20th Century

• Christmas puddings
• Christmas specialities
• Christmas decorations
• WW1 Christmas cards
• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day
• May Day (early and
  mid 20th Century)
• Harvest Festivals

Some Innovations
1950s-70s

• Tape recorders
• Speed cooking
• Slide photography
• Wedding photographs
• Transistors

Common then but not now
pre-1960s

• Social class
• Men's trouser braces
• Women's corsets
• Nylon stockings
• Buttonhooks
• Enemas
• More recollections

Hair care pre-1960s

• Hair care
• Metal curlers
• Rag curlers
• Pipe cleaner curlers
• Curling tongs
• Marcel waving

Skills

• Importance of dying skills
• Talking with the elderly
• Folklaw weather forecasting
• Decision making

Special Events

• London Olympics 1948
• Festival of Britain 1951
• Coronation Day 1953

Main locations in the website

• Edmonton old town
• Locality of old Edmonton
• Silver Street Edmonton
• Pymmes Villas Edmonton
• Cinemas in old Edmonton
• Then and now Edmonton
• Old rural Edmonton
• The windmill Edmonton
• Old Edgware

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