I can smell those flannel sheets in the 60's house as I watch this. Fresh and crisp straight from the airing cupboard and lovely and warm on a cold winters night.
Going back in time with you is always a pleasure. Let me take you by the hand and into the house of my grandaunt build around 1910. You will walk into a miners house, build from bricks with the look of a miniature farmhouse, the stove under the stairs in the kitchen, the stovepipe warmed the bedroom on the other side of the wall and upstair bedroom. The toilet was already indoor and in the bathroom was the door to the garden. I remember sitting there in the livingroom as a 3year old in 1969 in a green wollen armchair learning to crochet.... under a foto of my granduncle in uniform........the german Wehrmacht. Yes, you are in Germany in the Ruhr-area ... I wish I could walk into that house again. Thank you for remembering me my past. ❤
You are so welcome! I would LOVE the experience to visit some historical homes in other countries too - I love Germany, and learnt the language for 10 years, sadly it's pretty rusty now! Thanks for sharing that memory, it's really beautiful and it's lovely when we remember things we haven't thought about for many years x
I actually found some of those candy stripe pillow cases in a charity shop recently. I bought them and enjoy that same wave of nostalgia of childhood and sleeping at my grandparents house ❤ xx
This reminded me so much of my Nana and Grandad’s house in the 1970’s. The kitchen especially, I remember my Nana making plate pies and mash with veg that had been boiled to buggery 😂. I loved it there, my Grandad grew the most lovely vegetables and also stunning roses. Wonderful times 😍
I forgot to say I can still smell my gran making bread pudding and getting told to keep my fingers off till it was cold yummy it never lasted long with 5 grandkids visiting ,it was the days you could knock on the door and walk in and shout it's only me nan you are bring back so many happy and sad memories of my childhood thankyou Lucy . Roy
Very welcome! My Maternal Nan used to make bread pudding in a big brown washing up bowl, it was absolutely sensational, great big slabs - I have tried to recreate it without success. I wonder if it was that bowl!
@@throughlucyslens I posted videos how to make my grandmas bread pudding. I use white sugar, evap milk, cinnamon, some milk, cheap bread-wonder or no name, cook for 45- hr, let it cool down in the oven... I think it was 400 to 425 maybe. she would use raisins but I never did. eat hot or cold. with whipped topping. nothing compares to the texture and flavour. not commonly known in Canada tho I saw reference to it in one of the vacation movies... the bread pudding was wet bread.
Even from oz there’s so so much that’s the same. My grandma was born in 1915, furniture and knick knacks and everything from both the 40s house and the 60s house were in her home. I could smell grandma’s house walking through those with you and now I’m crying like a baby. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your work ❤ btw, I have one of those flannel sheets still, it’s a pride and joy
This means so much to me, isn't it lovely how things can just spark wonderful memories you probably haven't thought about for years and years, for me it was that radio! .. and I don't blame you for keeping the flannel sheet, they are amazing (and your comment made me teary eyed too!) x
Thanks for sharing Lucy. I loved seeing the reconstructed high street and the iron paneled duplex house. Thanks for spreading your appreciation for this period in Britain's past.
Glad you enjoyed it and you are very welcome, I absolutely love it! I always think I was born in the wrong time as the 60s, 70s & early 80s are my true love in terms of design, pop culture and housing x
Both the 1940's house, and the 1960's house, brought me a lot of nostalgia, going to my grandmother's Colorado four-square house, built in 1910, and growing up in the 1960's in Nashville, myself. Definite regional differences, sure, but it's amazing how much alike some of the things were. I, too, had the rainbow striped flannel sheets. And a very similar all-band radio, AM, FM, & short wave. My mom definitely had a similar set of electric curlers, and I've still got many of those old kitchen implements. So, even across the Atlantic, those rooms spoke volumes. Thanks for sharing this nostalgic experience.
Very very welcome! And I love that you grew up in Nashville - it's a place I've always wanted to go, and Colorado! It's my dream to spend a good chunk of time really exploring off the beaten track places. Thanks so much for your comment and I'm happy it sparked some happy memories for you xx
So true! I grew up in a small town in New Jersey USA and there are so many similarities! And the differences are so interesting! You are doing a wonderful thing here Lucy!!
I live in Perth, Western Australia, but I remember those candy-stripe sheets. It seemed like everyone had them. The red jug in the kitchen caught my eye. I have one the same but in green, which I've had for over 50 years and I still use it. Thanks for the tour.
You are very welcome, I had a similar jug of my Paternal grandmother but one of my cats jumped up on the dresser and knocked it off smashing it - i've never forgiven him for that!
You are so welcome! My Mom still had a vacuum like that in the early 80s, an actual "hoover" I can almost smell it - had a very distinct smell about it 😂
I've always wanted to go! My Mom & I are planning a visit up there in my camper van over the summer so watch this space - I fell in love with going in about 1986 when it was on Blue Peter and still haven't been 🤭
😭 I feel like I can see my little old nan in that kitchen making dinner, and I had that striped bedding at her house for when I stayed over too. What amazing memories this evoked, thank you Lucy 💜
15:30 - I have nothing in common with UK but seeing these vinyl wrapped shelves in there made me feel nostalgic. We had something similar in our summer house where, in early 1990's, my grandma decorated kitchen cabinets' shelves using old vinyl tablecloth. Both the cloth and cabinets, dating back to 1970's and coming from communist Poland, had much simpler design but just the idea of doing this brought back my memories of childhood.
Hey! Honestly I LOVE the homes & style of communist era Poland! Many many years ago I visited a museum in what was "East Germany" and I was shocked to see so many similarities to my own upbringing in the UK. People make do with what they have and this is reflected in things like the vinyl shelves. Thank you for sharing!
Do you know, I’ve not been here since we were at school! The ‘60’s high street looks amazing. The second iron house really reminded me of my paternal grandparents house, and hearing the whisper of The Who in the background almost made me feel like Dad was there ❤
Right? That bedroom with the car posters on the wall I found it hard to speak, it was like being back in that house on Bondfield Road - only thing missing was a poster of a cowboy 😂
Loved the 1960 house, I was a child in the 60s and I grew up in a house like this, everything about it was familiar, I had one of those record players and the striped sheets were exactly the same. Fabulous stroll down memory lane Lucy, thank you 🙏
Wonderful that this social history of working class people is being preserved by the Black Country Museum. Thank you for taking us round. I havent been thete for years and now live in the South West - so it would be a long trek to see it!
I was born in 1950 and the houses and contents are so familiar to me. The food, the books, those bed sheets were all in my home. Our toilet paper was Izal and was harsh. We had a couple of parrafin heaters to heat the bedrooms, you never forget the smell of them. They were never on long enough to really heat the rooms up, looking back money was very tight. That was the days when the window frames were metal and the glass used to be iced up inside. Thank you for sharing this, it has evoked so many memories.
My primary school, in the late 70s, used to have Izal in the toilets. Although the teachers toilet cubicle had proper soft paper, so we would frequently nip into the teachers' cubicle and pinch their paper. Even as a child I could never understand the point of paper that wasn't absorbant.
You are so welcome and I am really glad you enjoyed it, means a lot to me - and I remember frozen windows inside .. I have an old banger of a car and during the winter I get in and think, my god I've gone back to 1983!
The one at our school had "property of Birmingham City Council" printed on each sheet - who one earth would have stolen that! I remember they gave me some for a nose bleed once - absolutely pointless!
i'm now 67 years old and back in the early sixties our toilet paper was always an old Western paperback novel that my dad had finished with cut in half and stuck on an old four inch nail on the wall , i was one of eight kids and my dad was earning £5 a week so we couldn't afford luxuries like Izal slippy toilet paper
Indeed I remember Izal toilet paper so well. "Hard and repellent" could have been the company's advertising slogan. If it was still made with that slogan printed on every sheet it would be free of VAT! It would be advertising material not 'stationary', so be exempt from value added tax. 😃
That house reminded me so much of my Grandparents 1930s Semi in SE London. They did have an upstairs bathroom, but no other mod cons. Up until my Grandad died in 1966, he never had a washing machine or fridge. Washing was done in a Gas 'Copper' in the corner of the kitchen, and a green mangle in the lean to. Milk was kept in a galvanized bucket of water. This brought back loads of childhood memories - thank you. Take care 🙂
You are very welcome! I also remember milk being kept in a bucket of cold water when the electric ran out of the meter! This is why I love these places, they spark the most forgotten memories x
Just to let you know I've been enjoying your videos so much Lucy. You're making such a wonderful channel here! I'm a history fan from Dublin and I still recognise a lot of the decor and home styles from the mid century houses, particularly from visiting older family members. The excitement and nostalgia is real! Can't wait for more! 😊
Thanks SO much Laura, I really appreciate that, I am doing something I just genuinely enjoy, right now I can't believe my luck people are actually seeing them :)
Another fantastic video lucy..especially the 1960s tour of the iron house..i was born in 1962 and oh the memories of my parents house was almost a copy of this house...the pink candlewick bedspread and striped sheets..in winter mum would put old coats on our beds to keep us warm!!..the kitchen cabinets too are an exact copy of what we had..along with the carpet sweeper..and stand food mixer..we had open fires too..no cental heating..and a stone floor..just brill.thank you.x
This is so lovely: thank you. That house is very very evocative isn't it? Even though it was the 80s my grandad hadn't done any work on the house since the 60s at least, the carpet and the sofa and the kitchen were almost a carbon copy. If they had a little tinsel Christmas tree and boxing on the telly I would have been back!
Thankyou Lucy for sharing this gentle and very peaceful mooch through time!! I’m an 80’s kid from Australia and this took me back to my Dad’s family farmhouse. Two of his brothers took over the family sheep farm in the 1950s, adding a 2nd weatherboard house across the paddock. The old sprawling 1900’s weatherboard had a huge AGA woodstove in the kitchen. Checkered lino floor, a white formica table and pale yellow kitchen cupboards with chrome Z shaped handles. My Nana and Aunties had cooked for so many kids, shearers and farm workers over the years that the kitchen smelled of good tucker, woodsmoke, with a hint peppercorn and apple trees, and sheep. The rest of the house had wooden floors and grey & red floral carpet. The boys’ sleepout was all ACDC and Metallica, Holden Monaro and Kenworth truck posters. The bathroom was all green tiles, a wooden handle flush on the side of the loo with a fluffy green lid 😂 I absolutely loved exploring the sheds, particularly the old Dodge flatbed truck with hand waving indicators 😂, a washboard and ringer, a rocket washing machine with a crank handle. All the eras piled together, well loved and well used. Edit: i’m quite certain we also slept on the striped flannel sheets too! Best sleeps ever 🛌
I'm an 80s kid too and it always amazes me how many similarities between the UK & Aus. My Mom lived there for several years, she LOVED it, she said it was like living in the UK but how she liked to remember it. I loved reading your comment and it's making me fancy a bit of tucker myself now - probably a bit late here now though 😅
You just don't see those stripey flannelette sheets any more do you, someone should make them again! I was born in 1962, and so much of this was so familiar to see, and it was lovely to see again, the museum has done a fantastic job of putting it all together ❤ 👏 Glad that you enjoyed your fair ground ride 👍 and thank you Lucy 😊
OMG Lucy, you can still buy them 😯 I decided to Google candy stripe flanelette and there was quite a few to choose from, might be time to buy some new bedding! 😊👏
The pastle striped sheets on the bed, was my childhood bed, I remember my gran having the long drag along vacuum, and the metal sweeper, remember pushing that up down and living room, lovely to watch thank you
Peas in a pod. I get so attached to the places. I remember the hoover too - and the slightly odd dusty smell that never really went as the bag didn't empty properly 😂
Even though I was born in early 90s we still had a vintage candy stripe bedding set at home ❤️. These houses are so lovely. I really enjoy going to places like this. When I was in Kent, I loved Kent Life museum - mostly re located farmhouses but also there were some cottages and shops there- just so fascinating. These ones are very homely. Such a shame they didn't quite meet the criteria. Thanks for showing! ☺️.
You are very welcome, I was born in the 80s and we had the candy stripes too - just goes to show how well made and well loved they are, I think I might look for some in charity shops!
In the 1960s my parents house in Chicago Illinois had metal cabinets and the original 1954 refrigerator. People didn't upgrade for a new look we kept what worked. Vintage things still make me very happy. Thanks for the wonderful tour.
When you first walked into the kitchen of the 30s house, it could have been my grandmas. Hers was in Melbourne, Australia and didn’t have the copper in the corner but otherwise similar. It was a Californian bungalow built around the 30s. When I stayed over I slept in the box room on the tiniest but tallest bed I’ve ever seen. It was a huge change from our spacious 1960s Victorian countryside home.
How lovely! I LOVE all the different housing styles in Australia because there are so many different types brought in from all over the world - one day I will visit!
They are lovely aren't they, I am going to look out for them in Charity shops. I really want to own one again after stroking that one in the museum - my Nan had a whole ottoman full of them, sadly binned when she passed I suspect :(
@@throughlucyslens I asked my mum what happened to the ones we used to have as kids. Chucked out decades ago of course. But! you can get them in B&Q of all places! 🤣 I went on a hunt after watching your vid ☺️
The Clark County Museum in Las Vegas has a collection of old homes decorated to the correct period. I love the prefab home made for workers building Hoover Dam in the 1930s. Boulder City near Las Vegas still has quite a few of the workers' homes, and they are still occupied. It's very cool to drive around and see the old neighborhoods.
DANG! I went to Vegas a few years ago and knew NOTHING about this, we didn't stay on The Strip, we stayed in the old part of Las Vegas and I absolutely loved it, instead of casinos I spent all day walking around museums and antiques shops - my god I would like to have brought so much home! Now I need to go again don't I?
Peaky blinders set, instantly recognised.😂 never thought I'd feel as though I'm part of history now Lucy, candlewick bedspreads, heated rollers, it's all fantastic. It's really making me want to go this museum.
It's really great and you could spend a couple of days here and not see everything, you get a free return for 1 year with your entrance so you can go over and over again.
When your own lived memories are featured in a museum, I guess at that point you have to accept you're old!! Like you that 60's house brought a bit of a tear to my eye. Excellent videos, thank you.
My grandparents lived in a house built from iron panels in Symington in Scotland. They were demolished in the 80s. I remember me my sisters getting told off for bouncing a tennis ball against the outside wall of the house because it was so loud inside 😂
I remember my dad smelling of Old Spice when I was growing up. As I got older I remember him telling me that my bedroom smelt like a tart's palace, due to my perfumes. Isn't it surprising how something small can trigger memories?
Over in Sydney Australia in the early 70’s, I also had that same striped flanelette sheet and pillowcase set! We never had anything as fancy as a tomato slicer though 😊
I know .. imagine .. a tomato slicer! My Nan had one knife and used it for EVERYTHING from slicing bread to cutting up meat - when she passed it was like a thin sliver of metal having being sharpened so much over the years and I still have it. All I wanted was that knife and an old ice cream scoop she used to serve us up pudding with!
Loved the video. Please keep them coming. I have to admit the 60's house gave me goosebumps. I remember we had some of that stuff in our family home in the 60's.
Lucy, my boyhood town had thick Aluminium paneled prefabs and 'tarren' house estates. The tarren houses were brick/cement lower floor and the aluminium sheeted upper floor. The roof trusses were steel etc. Both styles had separate toilet rooms to the bathrooms, fitted kitchens from shaped aluminium/tin(?) the draining board with set in sink and a refrigerator, now that was luxury for temporary post war housing 😎 I think they were ment for short term life but the bungalow prefabs lasted to the 1980, the tarren houses still in use now. Of course the tarren houses are of non standard construction so they are not mortgage, but for space etc they are well sought after for cash purchases. There is a small enclave of prefabs bungalows in Altrincham that had the outside walls removed and brick walls put in place. When one comes on the open market it's sold very quickly. In the USA there were post war bungalows constructed in kit form from a company called Lustron, so they are known as Lustron houses. They are prefabricated enameled paneled bungalows, being internal and external panels. Being enamel there was a choice of 4 colours which never faded or needed decorating, just a wash down when required, easy peasey! Lots of info on tinternet about them. Again very desirable these days and prized for museums etc. Cheers DougT
Thanks Doug, that's brilliant! My Mom worked in a building society and she said she used to dread someone coming in wanting to buy a house of non-standard construction so she had to let them down gently - because, yes, these houses are so desirable. Love the idea of a wash down house .. yes please!
@@throughlucyslens thanks Lucy. It's worth googling Lustron homes, they were built specifically for returning forces. The interiors are very mid century furnished too. They perfectly suited US culture of open planned suburban sprawl. The prefabs of my birth town were very robust sheet aluminium(better than caravan quality) not compressed asbestos/cement like most were of the time. In fact modern versions would help the housing crisis of today? However Mrs T with her Right to Buy screwed up social housing in this country, my own POV of course. Look at how in demand those Canadian wood bungalows you recently featured are now prime real estate. Cheers DougT
I live in Poland, have zero interest in content like this and no idea why TH-cam recommended it to me. BUT it's so cool to see someone so passionate about their hobbies, showing us around, engaging, interesting. Loved it. You're a natural storyteller. Have subscribed :D
Hello James - that's so cute! I love it - sometimes You Tube does the same to me too and I think "huh" and before I know it I am watching content about something I never thought about before. Hello to Poland - a beautiful country I would love to explore x
@@throughlucyslens Thank you!! I ended up watching quite a few of your videos and I must say the house tours/social history videos are actually really interesting, despite the fact I never expected myself to enjoy this content :) It's fascinating and much more interesting than videos on horrible hotel rooms 😂 Hope this will become your "niche"
@@throughlucyslens my husband and I came to visit here in Ayrshire and fell in love with the unspoiled countryside it’s stunning. House prices are very affordable compared to England. We couldn’t afford to live there anymore. Originally I am from Meriden between Coventry and Sheldon. The people are so friendly and laid back.
It's really great! Try to go outside school holidays if you can (unless you have kids in tow) because it's much much quieter and you get time to soak it up x
I'm still feeling very spoilt as I was born in 1963 and as far as I can remember, our homes were very modern compared to the 60's house in this video. I do remember my Mum had that Ewbank to push across the carpets instead of getting the vacuum out though and those stripy flanalette sheets. We always had central heating and a gas fire too. My Grandma had those stone hot water bottles though. We must have been quite well off. I absolutely love these videos! Well done, they're brilliant Lucy!
Hello Lucy that 1920,s was very similar to my grandparents only theirs was built of bricks in my village quenington we have 30 of them i think they are all sold off now and been modernised with exstainshons . My grandparents house had 3 bedrooms 2 large and a box room and a airing cupboard upstairs and bathroom, kitchen and sitting room downstairs the only heating was open coal fire in the sitting room and a coke fire in the kitchen witch heated the water, she also had a walkin larder it's a pity they don't build houses like it anymore ,my dad was still building houses in the same design in 1963 in the next town to our village when I was born they new how to build back then ,have a good weekend, roy,quenington gloucestershire .
Hi Roy, thanks for your sharing your memories, I don't know why they stopped building like this either, the size is just ideal for most families - and they were built to last :)
Thank you Lucy for an excellent video! I went last year to the Black Country museum but sadly the iron houses weren’t then open so it’s great I can see them here. Although the 1940’s are my great passion, it was lovely to see the 1960’s house too. Lots of memories of my 1980’s childhood where, being only 20 years later, lots of the sixties era was still in our homes ( like you I collect the midwinter china as reminder of my godparents home )Great work
Thanks Ben, 80s childhood here too and I completely agree with what you said.My Grandparents homes hadn't moved on much at all apart from a better telly rented from Radio Rentals in the corner 🤣
The 60’s house really reminds me of my maternal grandparents maisonette. The kitchen was the same turquoise and white, the lounge had a similar china cabinet, and Nanny had a tin like the Quality Street one. Nanny died when I was 6, Grandad when I was 11, I am now 47. The only difference was they the bathroom was upstairs, the toilet in a separate room to the basin and bath. I have just said to my husband that we need to visit the museum. I haven’t been since I was 12. My paternal grandparents took me. I only have my paternal grandfather left now, he is 97 and still in fine form, quietly planning his 100th birthday celebration.
We are a similar age, my paternal grandparents passed when I was 3 and 10 .. but I remember their house SO clearly, like really really clearly. I was lucky to have my Moms parents until fairly recently and their home was a little bit more modern but still had plenty of quirky features - including that wonderful radio :) Keep on planning that big 100th - he'll get there :)
Thank you so much for this! I'm from Canada and saw stuff that we also had across the pond in those houses which was nostalgic for me as well. Thank you so much for these tours and this history lesson!
I had one of those mixers too - but sadly I burnt out the motor making meringue - my bad, it was too old really but I really wanted to experience using one!
Aren't they gorgeous? Me too - I went around with tears in my eyes because I kept getting things popping into my head I hadn't thought about for many many years. There was even a handbag on the sofa just like my Nan left it - if there had been a knitting bag by the side of the armchair too I would have lost it!
I've really enjoyed your video. I visited the Black Country Museum in 2012 I enjoyed it very much. My hubby went in the Coal Mine. Which he thought was a great experience. I lived in a brick built council house from 1953 to when I got married in 1970. Before that we lived in a metal Nissan hut which dad fitted out for us. 1950 to 1953. My memory of that was a weekly bath before a roaring fire, and toasting crumpets for tea. I was approaching my 5th birthday. I remember our council house was always neat and tidy, my mum didn't like things left lying around. We had a toy cupboard in the living room. Two bedrooms and bathroom with separate toilet upstairs. A boiler in the kitchen that heated water and the airing cupboard on the landing. A coal fire in the tiled fireplace, in the living room. That was change to a gas fire eventually. It was a luxury for mum after the Nissan hut.
Gosh! A Nissan Hut!! I have never heard of people living longer term in those, that is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing - your Mom sounds like mine .. everything has a place .. and out of the way! We weren't allowed toys downstairs, I used to think it was madness when I was a kid, but now I am an adult I understand completely!
Love watching your channel Lucy, I too love stepping back in time, especially to the 1950s and 60s. I remember being a very young child and my mum using Oxydol washing power, what a blast from the past. Wouldn't it be lovely if we had a time machine and could travel back in time,( just for a day) to that era and experience again the sights and sounds of that decade?
I would love that, I imagine some of the smells would make my wrinkle my nose up though, I was obsessed with The Tudors when I was a kid and dreamed of going back until I realised how stinky it would be - assault on the senses 🤣
You randomly came up in my feed. I loved your tour,like you,my eyes teared up as you showed us around the house. I could sense your emotions, well done
As a man in my mid sixties watching this brings back memories of my childhood. Having many Aunts and uncles whom we visited often both interiors reflect the houses I would visit all contained a mix of furnishings from different periods Both my grandmothrs had wrap round aprons for everyday work and "Dutch aprons "for Sunday and entertaining.pity you didn't show us the gardens , as these also were a good sign off social differences and pride of owners and tennants alike the Museum has done a great job and I hope the school children to whom you referred learnt something upon. their visit.
The gardens aren't ready yet unfortunately, it looks like they are going to be allotments but at the moment it's just piles of soil .. I shall go back :) Glad it sparked happy memories for you.
Ive been excited for the opening of the 1960's street/area for over a year. I really must go now. It looks fab. Where i live now (Cradley Heath) Im right next to Jones yard and see all the fairground rides over wintered. Thanks Lucy, your channel is so perfect.
Hi Lucy great video. I moved into a new council house in 1967 it was made from some type of concrete panels and pebble dashed over they were bleak. It had huge windows and a full length window and glass door in the lounge. This was new to us all this glass, it was single glazed so was always running with condensation in the winter and we had rolled up towels on the sills and floor. It had hot air heating which all came out one vent and the rest of the house was cold. I remember sitting at my mum's sewing machine running up curtains which was a huge expense I can't see many 14 year olds doing that today. It had a Formica kitchen which was great and I remember coming home from school and mum standing there grinning pointing her new fridge we, had never had one before and of course those flannel sheets. The houses are still standing and the owners have tried to make them look less like a prison camp but it has not really worked.
PEBBLEDASH! My goodness - what was it with that stuff? We had it on the house I lived in as a kid too - and it's still there today. I think it's always interesting to hear from people who experienced living in places rather than looking through rose tinted glasses. Thanks for sharing x
Absolutely delighted to see you’ve done the Black country museum and that pair of semis what a treat because when I visited the Black Country Museum just before Christmas those were not open to the public yet but I’ll be making a return visit soon to look for myself
Another fab video and I’ve learnt something too! Never knew about steel houses. The design is so traditional and very homely. Brilliant to know that the Black Country Museum is adding to its attraction- one to add to the to do list😊
As a 61 year old our house had lots of similar things , the blue cupboard in the kitchen ( ours was part of a freestanding unit with glass sliding doors at the top, baking storage with flap down front in the middle and a cupboard with sliding doors at the bottom) also the iconic candy stripe sheets! My Gran had a much older version of the same cupboard , which had so many paint colours visible where it was chipped! Have you been to Beamish in County Durham? If you haven’t try to get there some time, you would absolutely love it! They’re 😢constantly adding to it and last time we went I’m sure they were working on a ‘fifties’ area x
I would LOVE to go - I am planning a visit with my Mom over the summer, we have wanted to go since the 80s when I first saw it on an episode of Blue Peter - this year is the year!
Another fascinating history lesson. Of the two, I prefer the 1940s side because that's the era I have in my home. Being an early 70s baby, I remember houses with 60s decor, as people didn't update anywhere near as frequently as they do today. Both my grandmas houses had those tiled fireplaces. They each lived in very different houses, one in a 1900s terrace in Kent and the other in a 1950s bungalow in Hertfordshire, but the tiled fireplace was always present.
People just didn't decorate did they? My parents were the first generation who were the "DIY generation" I think - as a child our house was changed every year! It made your head spin. Thanks for your lovely comment, it's a shame so many of those fireplaces were smashed up and thrown on tips - bet they are worth a fortune to interior designers now!
I don't blame you - seems like a fair swap to me ;) ... I don't even know where my wedding dress is, that's terrible isn't it! But It was a vintage piece of Ebay, only cost me a couple of quid - wouldn't have got me a kitchen cabinet for sure!
OMG, that wall paper is almost exactly the same as my British husband and I had on the entrance hall wall in 1970, in SOUTH AFRICA! We got most of our fancy stuff from the UK then, and we certainly though that was fancy. Remembering too, that South Africa ran about a year behind the UK in trends.
Ive not been to this museum for 15 years, another trip is in order. Much of this reminds me of small Devon towns which were like this to an extent in the 90s, ive heard of iron houses but never seen one. There are a lot of cob houses near me and a few straw ones. Seeing thease is fascinating. A small town near me has a pub now a museum stuck in time from the 40s / 50s . My mums cleaning lady who lived until her 80s had no indoor heating apart from a real fire, no hot water and an outside toilet until she died in around 2009, the local mill owned her house but she refused modern conveniences even looking after her elderly mother and husband and working almost until she died Its great to see our history being preserved lovely video.
Hi Lucy my son and his partner of there Sunday for two days he's love it lol ct get over how well yur doing on utube amazing just shows how many people love to look back in time lol ❤
Just found your channel a few days ago. I'm American. Southerner. I love your content. The housing types after the war are fascinating. Looking forward to more vids. Going back and watching past content also.
It took me a moment to realise what you meant by 'bottom-shredding toilet paper'😀, but when the penny dropped, I could but smile and agree that if you know.... you know! 😀 Fantastically interesting. Thank you so much. It brought back many memories of that era's housing. What to make in the 60s kitchen? A roast Sunday dinner accompanied by 'Family Favourites' on the radio!
Yes .. that would be lovely .. and back to the loo roll .. the stuff at our school had "property of Birmingham City council" on it - why on earth anyone would want to steal it .. makes me laugh.
Thank you so much for making this video in the wonderful Black Country Museum. I was born in the sixties in Dudley so it really meant something to me. I remember so many of the objects featured in the video. The Ewbank and the stripey flannelette sheets really struck a chord! My very first memory was of watching Mum doing the ironing in the kitchen with "Lilly The Pink" on the radio! Mum used her 1960's washing machine with electric mangle on he top until she had her kitchen refitted in the 1980's I love your channel. Always informative and fun to watch!
Thank you Catherine. It was the pillowcases and the radio that did it for me. My Nan always had the radio on - it always seemed to be Les Ross and I'd sit at the booth my grandad made out of old bits of wood and be spoilt rotten with loads of cakes & pop 🤭
I visited again a couple of weeks ago to see the new 1960s street (last year we went to see the 1940/50s street) - it’s excellent and well worth a visit - you also get a free visit within 12 months from your ticket.
I can smell those flannel sheets in the 60's house as I watch this. Fresh and crisp straight from the airing cupboard and lovely and warm on a cold winters night.
Mmmm and so so soft on your face. I used to love them.
Brentford Nylon sheets were big in the 60s….they can be soft on your face too…
You can still get them, I have got a duvet cover set of candy stripe flannelette. So cosy.
Airing cupboard. ! I used to dream of a working airing cupboard in the Sixty’s.
Yes, dry warm clothes are definately at a premium - you know I've never had an airing cupboard!
Absolutely loved this. Glad there’s children seeing this Life was so much simpler back then.
I'm so happy you enjoyed it. Thank you, I hope these videos get some little people into history and appreciating the past, I would love that x
Going back in time with you is always a pleasure. Let me take you by the hand and into the house of my grandaunt build around 1910. You will walk into a miners house, build from bricks with the look of a miniature farmhouse, the stove under the stairs in the kitchen, the stovepipe warmed the bedroom on the other side of the wall and upstair bedroom. The toilet was already indoor and in the bathroom was the door to the garden. I remember sitting there in the livingroom as a 3year old in 1969 in a green wollen armchair learning to crochet.... under a foto of my granduncle in uniform........the german Wehrmacht. Yes, you are in Germany in the Ruhr-area ... I wish I could walk into that house again. Thank you for remembering me my past. ❤
You are so welcome! I would LOVE the experience to visit some historical homes in other countries too - I love Germany, and learnt the language for 10 years, sadly it's pretty rusty now! Thanks for sharing that memory, it's really beautiful and it's lovely when we remember things we haven't thought about for many years x
I actually found some of those candy stripe pillow cases in a charity shop recently. I bought them and enjoy that same wave of nostalgia of childhood and sleeping at my grandparents house ❤ xx
Yesss! You know I think I am going to look for some. They were so comfortable and cosy. Probably really expensive to buy but lasted forever x
I still have some of these stripped flannelette sheets
Yes, they were part of my childhood too, Down Under (but only in Winter of course :) RjB
You were lucky,i never slept at my grandparents house…
I'm glad I'm not the only person who finds visiting museums with 19xx domestic interiors ... emotional! All sort of feelings get stirred up.
Right? It's like loads of things you hadn't thought about for years pop back in your head. I love it!
This reminded me so much of my Nana and Grandad’s house in the 1970’s. The kitchen especially, I remember my Nana making plate pies and mash with veg that had been boiled to buggery 😂. I loved it there, my Grandad grew the most lovely vegetables and also stunning roses. Wonderful times 😍
'... boiled to buggery ...'. 😂😂😂 Those were the days.
Hahahaha ... beige green beans .. how did they even achieve that?
PLATED PIE !!! My aunty Gill made the BEST plated apple pie on an old pyrex glass plate, I can taste it!
Nana Mouskouri..?
@@griswald7156,Nana is a popular word for grandma in many U.K. families.
Those brushed cotton sheets... yep had those, so comfy in winter.
The best right?
I forgot to say I can still smell my gran making bread pudding and getting told to keep my fingers off till it was cold yummy it never lasted long with 5 grandkids visiting ,it was the days you could knock on the door and walk in and shout it's only me nan you are bring back so many happy and sad memories of my childhood thankyou Lucy . Roy
Very welcome! My Maternal Nan used to make bread pudding in a big brown washing up bowl, it was absolutely sensational, great big slabs - I have tried to recreate it without success. I wonder if it was that bowl!
@@throughlucyslens I posted videos how to make my grandmas bread pudding. I use white sugar, evap milk, cinnamon, some milk, cheap bread-wonder or no name, cook for 45- hr, let it cool down in the oven... I think it was 400 to 425 maybe. she would use raisins but I never did. eat hot or cold. with whipped topping. nothing compares to the texture and flavour.
not commonly known in Canada tho I saw reference to it in one of the vacation movies... the bread pudding was wet bread.
@@minimaladjacent that sounds lovely! It's more like a sort of really dense cake here, crazy to think something so simple can taste so delicious!
Bread pudding is not so difficult to make. Mama used to make very rich bread pudding
Even from oz there’s so so much that’s the same. My grandma was born in 1915, furniture and knick knacks and everything from both the 40s house and the 60s house were in her home. I could smell grandma’s house walking through those with you and now I’m crying like a baby. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your work ❤ btw, I have one of those flannel sheets still, it’s a pride and joy
This means so much to me, isn't it lovely how things can just spark wonderful memories you probably haven't thought about for years and years, for me it was that radio! .. and I don't blame you for keeping the flannel sheet, they are amazing (and your comment made me teary eyed too!) x
Thanks for sharing Lucy. I loved seeing the reconstructed high street and the iron paneled duplex house. Thanks for spreading your appreciation for this period in Britain's past.
Glad you enjoyed it and you are very welcome,
I absolutely love it! I always think I was born in the wrong time as the 60s, 70s & early 80s are my true love in terms of design, pop culture and housing x
Both the 1940's house, and the 1960's house, brought me a lot of nostalgia, going to my grandmother's Colorado four-square house, built in 1910, and growing up in the 1960's in Nashville, myself.
Definite regional differences, sure, but it's amazing how much alike some of the things were.
I, too, had the rainbow striped flannel sheets.
And a very similar all-band radio, AM, FM, & short wave.
My mom definitely had a similar set of electric curlers, and I've still got many of those old kitchen implements.
So, even across the Atlantic, those rooms spoke volumes.
Thanks for sharing this nostalgic experience.
Very very welcome! And I love that you grew up in Nashville - it's a place I've always wanted to go, and Colorado! It's my dream to spend a good chunk of time really exploring off the beaten track places. Thanks so much for your comment and I'm happy it sparked some happy memories for you xx
So true! I grew up in a small town in New Jersey USA and there are so many similarities! And the differences are so interesting! You are doing a wonderful thing here Lucy!!
I live in Perth, Western Australia, but I remember those candy-stripe sheets. It seemed like everyone had them. The red jug in the kitchen caught my eye. I have one the same but in green, which I've had for over 50 years and I still use it. Thanks for the tour.
You are very welcome, I had a similar jug of my Paternal grandmother but one of my cats jumped up on the dresser and knocked it off smashing it - i've never forgiven him for that!
This is so nostalgic. Brings back memories.
Thank you, very welcome :)
Really enjoyed this video. Born in the 50s so love to see all the old vacuum cleaners and televisions. Thanks Lucy x
You are so welcome! My Mom still had a vacuum like that in the early 80s, an actual "hoover" I can almost smell it - had a very distinct smell about it 😂
If you ever get up North Lucy visit beamish museum it's very similar they are concentrating on building the 1950s area at the moment
I've always wanted to go! My Mom & I are planning a visit up there in my camper van over the summer so watch this space - I fell in love with going in about 1986 when it was on Blue Peter and still haven't been 🤭
You will love it.
you will enjoy lots of areas in the North East if you can manage to get a good few days up here.
Yes if I come that way it's got to be a good week!
I was born in 1948 so this was very nostalgic to me too. Brilliant post ❤
Thank you so much, I am glad you enjoyed it :)
I love the touch of what looks like a necklace hanging on the mirror. It looks like the owners just stepped out.
Lovely isn't it - it's these little touches that make these places so nostalgic.
😭 I feel like I can see my little old nan in that kitchen making dinner, and I had that striped bedding at her house for when I stayed over too. What amazing memories this evoked, thank you Lucy 💜
🥹🥹🥹 I love this! That bedding is just so nostalgic isn't it?
15:30 - I have nothing in common with UK but seeing these vinyl wrapped shelves in there made me feel nostalgic. We had something similar in our summer house where, in early 1990's, my grandma decorated kitchen cabinets' shelves using old vinyl tablecloth. Both the cloth and cabinets, dating back to 1970's and coming from communist Poland, had much simpler design but just the idea of doing this brought back my memories of childhood.
Hey! Honestly I LOVE the homes & style of communist era Poland! Many many years ago I visited a museum in what was "East Germany" and I was shocked to see so many similarities to my own upbringing in the UK. People make do with what they have and this is reflected in things like the vinyl shelves. Thank you for sharing!
Do you know, I’ve not been here since we were at school!
The ‘60’s high street looks amazing.
The second iron house really reminded me of my paternal grandparents house, and hearing the whisper of The Who in the background almost made me feel like Dad was there ❤
Right? That bedroom with the car posters on the wall I found it hard to speak, it was like being back in that house on Bondfield Road - only thing missing was a poster of a cowboy 😂
Loved the 1960 house, I was a child in the 60s and I grew up in a house like this, everything about it was familiar, I had one of those record players and the striped sheets were exactly the same. Fabulous stroll down memory lane Lucy, thank you 🙏
You are so welcome Stella - I really appreciate that :) x
Wonderful that this social history of working class people is being preserved by the Black Country Museum. Thank you for taking us round. I havent been thete for years and now live in the South West - so it would be a long trek to see it!
It's great isn't it? I think that's why I have always loved this museum even since I was a child - it's just REAL.
I was born in 1950 and the houses and contents are so familiar to me. The food, the books, those bed sheets were all in my home. Our toilet paper was Izal and was harsh.
We had a couple of parrafin heaters to heat the bedrooms, you never forget the smell of them. They were never on long enough to really heat the rooms up, looking back money was very tight. That was the days when the window frames were metal and the glass used to be iced up inside.
Thank you for sharing this, it has evoked so many memories.
My primary school, in the late 70s, used to have Izal in the toilets. Although the teachers toilet cubicle had proper soft paper, so we would frequently nip into the teachers' cubicle and pinch their paper. Even as a child I could never understand the point of paper that wasn't absorbant.
You are so welcome and I am really glad you enjoyed it, means a lot to me - and I remember frozen windows inside .. I have an old banger of a car and during the winter I get in and think, my god I've gone back to 1983!
The one at our school had "property of Birmingham City Council" printed on each sheet - who one earth would have stolen that! I remember they gave me some for a nose bleed once - absolutely pointless!
i'm now 67 years old and back in the early sixties our toilet paper was always an old Western paperback novel that my dad had finished with cut in half and stuck on an old four inch nail on the wall , i was one of eight kids and my dad was earning £5 a week so we couldn't afford luxuries like Izal slippy toilet paper
Indeed I remember Izal toilet paper so well. "Hard and repellent" could have been the company's advertising slogan.
If it was still made with that slogan printed on every sheet it would be free of VAT! It would be advertising material not 'stationary', so be exempt from value added tax. 😃
That house reminded me so much of my Grandparents 1930s Semi in SE London. They did have an upstairs bathroom, but no other mod cons. Up until my Grandad died in 1966, he never had a washing machine or fridge. Washing was done in a Gas 'Copper' in the corner of the kitchen, and a green mangle in the lean to. Milk was kept in a galvanized bucket of water. This brought back loads of childhood memories - thank you. Take care 🙂
You are very welcome! I also remember milk being kept in a bucket of cold water when the electric ran out of the meter! This is why I love these places, they spark the most forgotten memories x
Back when toilet paper was actual paper !
Love a bit of Formica.
Great tour, lots of nostalgia 🙂
Very welcome ... and gosh I have such a bad memory from that toilet paper - scarred for life .. maybe literally ;)
Oh that 60s house was a walk down memory lane for me.. and I've still got one of the old photo frames in the 40s house that was my Grandparents 😁🫂💚
My Nan had a bamboo one .. so nostalgic x
My mum had a lot of 1960s appliances as she got married in 1959. All were eventually renewed after I grew up.
I love the colours of them, the duck eggs and yellows. They are worth a fortune now!
Just to let you know I've been enjoying your videos so much Lucy. You're making such a wonderful channel here! I'm a history fan from Dublin and I still recognise a lot of the decor and home styles from the mid century houses, particularly from visiting older family members. The excitement and nostalgia is real! Can't wait for more! 😊
Thanks SO much Laura, I really appreciate that, I am doing something I just genuinely enjoy, right now I can't believe my luck people are actually seeing them :)
I recognize the mother's scarves in the 1960s house. They're in my mother's top left dresser drawer....
The Black Country Living Museum is epic!
Totally agree, the best 😻
Another fantastic video lucy..especially the 1960s tour of the iron house..i was born in 1962 and oh the memories of my parents house was almost a copy of this house...the pink candlewick bedspread and striped sheets..in winter mum would put old coats on our beds to keep us warm!!..the kitchen cabinets too are an exact copy of what we had..along with the carpet sweeper..and stand food mixer..we had open fires too..no cental heating..and a stone floor..just brill.thank you.x
This is so lovely: thank you. That house is very very evocative isn't it? Even though it was the 80s my grandad hadn't done any work on the house since the 60s at least, the carpet and the sofa and the kitchen were almost a carbon copy. If they had a little tinsel Christmas tree and boxing on the telly I would have been back!
Oh yes! Candlewick bedspreads (and dressing gowns!) were the go down in Oz too!! RjB
We have so many similarities as nations - I think our senses of humour are similar too!
My Nanny always took an afternoon nap on the sofa, and always under a soft flannel blanket!
How lovely, and I don't blame her! They are so comfy and cosy.
Thankyou Lucy for sharing this gentle and very peaceful mooch through time!!
I’m an 80’s kid from Australia and this took me back to my Dad’s family farmhouse. Two of his brothers took over the family sheep farm in the 1950s, adding a 2nd weatherboard house across the paddock. The old sprawling 1900’s weatherboard had a huge AGA woodstove in the kitchen. Checkered lino floor, a white formica table and pale yellow kitchen cupboards with chrome Z shaped handles.
My Nana and Aunties had cooked for so many kids, shearers and farm workers over the years that the kitchen smelled of good tucker, woodsmoke, with a hint peppercorn and apple trees, and sheep. The rest of the house had wooden floors and grey & red floral carpet.
The boys’ sleepout was all ACDC and Metallica, Holden Monaro and Kenworth truck posters. The bathroom was all green tiles, a wooden handle flush on the side of the loo with a fluffy green lid 😂
I absolutely loved exploring the sheds, particularly the old Dodge flatbed truck with hand waving indicators 😂, a washboard and ringer, a rocket washing machine with a crank handle. All the eras piled together, well loved and well used.
Edit: i’m quite certain we also slept on the striped flannel sheets too! Best sleeps ever 🛌
I'm an 80s kid too and it always amazes me how many similarities between the UK & Aus. My Mom lived there for several years, she LOVED it, she said it was like living in the UK but how she liked to remember it. I loved reading your comment and it's making me fancy a bit of tucker myself now - probably a bit late here now though 😅
You just don't see those stripey flannelette sheets any more do you, someone should make them again! I was born in 1962, and so much of this was so familiar to see, and it was lovely to see again, the museum has done a fantastic job of putting it all together ❤ 👏
Glad that you enjoyed your fair ground ride 👍 and thank you Lucy 😊
Thanks Margaret, I would love some of those pillow cases, I'm going to look out for them in charity shops. I want to rub my face on them 😂
OMG Lucy, you can still buy them 😯 I decided to Google candy stripe flanelette and there was quite a few to choose from, might be time to buy some new bedding! 😊👏
I have some on my bed now!
Whatttt???! Omg
Best sleep ever!
The pastle striped sheets on the bed, was my childhood bed, I remember my gran having the long drag along vacuum, and the metal sweeper, remember pushing that up down and living room, lovely to watch thank you
Peas in a pod. I get so attached to the places. I remember the hoover too - and the slightly odd dusty smell that never really went as the bag didn't empty properly 😂
Even though I was born in early 90s we still had a vintage candy stripe bedding set at home ❤️. These houses are so lovely. I really enjoy going to places like this. When I was in Kent, I loved Kent Life museum - mostly re located farmhouses but also there were some cottages and shops there- just so fascinating. These ones are very homely. Such a shame they didn't quite meet the criteria. Thanks for showing! ☺️.
You are very welcome, I was born in the 80s and we had the candy stripes too - just goes to show how well made and well loved they are, I think I might look for some in charity shops!
In the 1960s my parents house in Chicago Illinois had metal cabinets and the original 1954 refrigerator. People didn't upgrade for a new look we kept what worked. Vintage things still make me very happy. Thanks for the wonderful tour.
The same happened here in Buenos Aires. Argentina
my brothers 50s apt in ontario canada had metal cabinets...so durable.
When you first walked into the kitchen of the 30s house, it could have been my grandmas. Hers was in Melbourne, Australia and didn’t have the copper in the corner but otherwise similar. It was a Californian bungalow built around the 30s. When I stayed over I slept in the box room on the tiniest but tallest bed I’ve ever seen. It was a huge change from our spacious 1960s Victorian countryside home.
How lovely! I LOVE all the different housing styles in Australia because there are so many different types brought in from all over the world - one day I will visit!
I think every kid in the UK had the candy stripe flannel sheets. Ah it brings back so much nostalgia to see them again ❤😊
They are lovely aren't they, I am going to look out for them in Charity shops. I really want to own one again after stroking that one in the museum - my Nan had a whole ottoman full of them, sadly binned when she passed I suspect :(
@@throughlucyslens I asked my mum what happened to the ones we used to have as kids. Chucked out decades ago of course. But! you can get them in B&Q of all places! 🤣 I went on a hunt after watching your vid ☺️
The Clark County Museum in Las Vegas has a collection of old homes decorated to the correct period. I love the prefab home made for workers building Hoover Dam in the 1930s. Boulder City near Las Vegas still has quite a few of the workers' homes, and they are still occupied. It's very cool to drive around and see the old neighborhoods.
DANG! I went to Vegas a few years ago and knew NOTHING about this, we didn't stay on The Strip, we stayed in the old part of Las Vegas and I absolutely loved it, instead of casinos I spent all day walking around museums and antiques shops - my god I would like to have brought so much home! Now I need to go again don't I?
How about I promise to visit Birmingham if you promise to visit Las Vegas. 😂
Deal 😂
Peaky blinders set, instantly recognised.😂 never thought I'd feel as though I'm part of history now Lucy, candlewick bedspreads, heated rollers, it's all fantastic. It's really making me want to go this museum.
It's really great and you could spend a couple of days here and not see everything, you get a free return for 1 year with your entrance so you can go over and over again.
I love these everyday life museums. Good work!
Thank you, I appreciate it :)
When your own lived memories are featured in a museum, I guess at that point you have to accept you're old!! Like you that 60's house brought a bit of a tear to my eye. Excellent videos, thank you.
I would say wise, makes me feel better 🤣 it's beautiful isn't it? They really did nail it!
My grandparents lived in a house built from iron panels in Symington in Scotland. They were demolished in the 80s. I remember me my sisters getting told off for bouncing a tennis ball against the outside wall of the house because it was so loud inside 😂
My gosh, I bet it sounded like a ball bouncing off the side of an ocean liner ... haha
Thankyou for these wonderful memories.
My absolute pleasure x
I had those sheets when I was a kid in the 70's
The best & softest sheets :)
Thank-you 😃
Very welcome x
I still have and use my mothers sheets on my bed! Candystripe cotton for summer…..flannelette pink for winter! Still going strong after 60 years!
So worth the investment and so comforting. I love to hear it x
I remember my dad smelling of Old Spice when I was growing up. As I got older I remember him telling me that my bedroom smelt like a tart's palace, due to my perfumes. Isn't it surprising how something small can trigger memories?
Tarts palace 🤣🤣🤣 omg .. I've heard that saying a few times off my own parents too! 100% the smallest things can trigger massive reactions x
Over in Sydney Australia in the early 70’s, I also had that same striped flanelette sheet and pillowcase set!
We never had anything as fancy as a tomato slicer though 😊
I know .. imagine .. a tomato slicer! My Nan had one knife and used it for EVERYTHING from slicing bread to cutting up meat - when she passed it was like a thin sliver of metal having being sharpened so much over the years and I still have it. All I wanted was that knife and an old ice cream scoop she used to serve us up pudding with!
@@throughlucyslens Your nana had an ice cream scoop? That's a bit flash Lucy! Did you end up getting her knife and that ice cream scoop in the end?
Even though I live & was brought up in NZ so many of these items bring back memories to me. Those striped sheets & Vim for starters 😂😂👍
Remember with Vim you just could never get the smell of your hands? What on earth was in it? haha
That was a nice house back in those days
I would think so, i'd live in it now!
Loved the video. Please keep them coming. I have to admit the 60's house gave me goosebumps. I remember we had some of that stuff in our family home in the 60's.
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback Sue x
Lucy, my boyhood town had thick Aluminium paneled prefabs and 'tarren' house estates. The tarren houses were brick/cement lower floor and the aluminium sheeted upper floor. The roof trusses were steel etc. Both styles had separate toilet rooms to the bathrooms, fitted kitchens from shaped aluminium/tin(?) the draining board with set in sink and a refrigerator, now that was luxury for temporary post war housing 😎 I think they were ment for short term life but the bungalow prefabs lasted to the 1980, the tarren houses still in use now. Of course the tarren houses are of non standard construction so they are not mortgage, but for space etc they are well sought after for cash purchases. There is a small enclave of prefabs bungalows in Altrincham that had the outside walls removed and brick walls put in place. When one comes on the open market it's sold very quickly. In the USA there were post war bungalows constructed in kit form from a company called Lustron, so they are known as Lustron houses. They are prefabricated enameled paneled bungalows, being internal and external panels. Being enamel there was a choice of 4 colours which never faded or needed decorating, just a wash down when required, easy peasey! Lots of info on tinternet about them. Again very desirable these days and prized for museums etc. Cheers DougT
Thanks Doug, that's brilliant! My Mom worked in a building society and she said she used to dread someone coming in wanting to buy a house of non-standard construction so she had to let them down gently - because, yes, these houses are so desirable. Love the idea of a wash down house .. yes please!
@@throughlucyslens thanks Lucy. It's worth googling Lustron homes, they were built specifically for returning forces. The interiors are very mid century furnished too. They perfectly suited US culture of open planned suburban sprawl. The prefabs of my birth town were very robust sheet aluminium(better than caravan quality) not compressed asbestos/cement like most were of the time. In fact modern versions would help the housing crisis of today? However Mrs T with her Right to Buy screwed up social housing in this country, my own POV of course. Look at how in demand those Canadian wood bungalows you recently featured are now prime real estate. Cheers DougT
We share the POV! I don't have anything good to say about Mrs T really 😬
Well this has got me on the search for flannelette sheets!
People have told me you can buy them on eBay - the stripy ones too! 😍
YES! cannot wait to watch this later. Thanks Lucy!
My new favourite channel, you’re so lovely! Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you! 🥹🥹🥹 honestly that means a lot!
I live in Poland, have zero interest in content like this and no idea why TH-cam recommended it to me. BUT it's so cool to see someone so passionate about their hobbies, showing us around, engaging, interesting. Loved it. You're a natural storyteller. Have subscribed :D
Hello James - that's so cute! I love it - sometimes You Tube does the same to me too and I think "huh" and before I know it I am watching content about something I never thought about before. Hello to Poland - a beautiful country I would love to explore x
@@throughlucyslens Thank you!! I ended up watching quite a few of your videos and I must say the house tours/social history videos are actually really interesting, despite the fact I never expected myself to enjoy this content :) It's fascinating and much more interesting than videos on horrible hotel rooms 😂 Hope this will become your "niche"
@@jameswilson1295 It's strange really, the channel has just taken me to somewhere I always wanted to be! And yes I agree entirely! haha
Beautiful tour thank you so much. I love the “Black Country Museum” but we relocated to Scotland 🏴 lovely to see it again ❤
Aww hope you are having a lovely time up in Scotland though, it's a place I just haven't visited enough and I'm desperate to!
@@throughlucyslens my husband and I came to visit here in Ayrshire and fell in love with the unspoiled countryside it’s stunning. House prices are very affordable compared to England. We couldn’t afford to live there anymore. Originally I am from Meriden between Coventry and Sheldon. The people are so friendly and laid back.
Another place to add to my list of places to visit. Love that you can get right in and have a proper nosey in the drawers and cupboards.
It's really great! Try to go outside school holidays if you can (unless you have kids in tow) because it's much much quieter and you get time to soak it up x
I'm still feeling very spoilt as I was born in 1963 and as far as I can remember, our homes were very modern compared to the 60's house in this video. I do remember my Mum had that Ewbank to push across the carpets instead of getting the vacuum out though and those stripy flanalette sheets. We always had central heating and a gas fire too. My Grandma had those stone hot water bottles though. We must have been quite well off. I absolutely love these videos! Well done, they're brilliant Lucy!
You are so welcome! You don't know what you have as a child do you as it doesn't matter as long as you are loved ❤️
Hello Lucy that 1920,s was very similar to my grandparents only theirs was built of bricks in my village quenington we have 30 of them i think they are all sold off now and been modernised with exstainshons . My grandparents house had 3 bedrooms 2 large and a box room and a airing cupboard upstairs and bathroom, kitchen and sitting room downstairs the only heating was open coal fire in the sitting room and a coke fire in the kitchen witch heated the water, she also had a walkin larder it's a pity they don't build houses like it anymore ,my dad was still building houses in the same design in 1963 in the next town to our village when I was born they new how to build back then ,have a good weekend, roy,quenington gloucestershire .
Hi Roy, thanks for your sharing your memories, I don't know why they stopped building like this either, the size is just ideal for most families - and they were built to last :)
Thank you Lucy for an excellent video!
I went last year to the Black Country museum but sadly the iron houses weren’t then open so it’s great I can see them here.
Although the 1940’s are my great passion, it was lovely to see the 1960’s house too. Lots of memories of my 1980’s childhood where, being only 20 years later, lots of the sixties era was still in our homes ( like you I collect the midwinter china as reminder of my godparents home )Great work
Thanks Ben, 80s childhood here too and I completely agree with what you said.My Grandparents homes hadn't moved on much at all apart from a better telly rented from Radio Rentals in the corner 🤣
I've always wanted to go here. Will have to go as I just love exploring old house museums.
Agree how they make you remember your grandparents homes 😢❤
You must visit, it's lovely! There are several other similar museums depending where you are in the UK x
The 60’s house really reminds me of my maternal grandparents maisonette. The kitchen was the same turquoise and white, the lounge had a similar china cabinet, and Nanny had a tin like the Quality Street one. Nanny died when I was 6, Grandad when I was 11, I am now 47. The only difference was they the bathroom was upstairs, the toilet in a separate room to the basin and bath.
I have just said to my husband that we need to visit the museum. I haven’t been since I was 12. My paternal grandparents took me. I only have my paternal grandfather left now, he is 97 and still in fine form, quietly planning his 100th birthday celebration.
We are a similar age, my paternal grandparents passed when I was 3 and 10 .. but I remember their house SO clearly, like really really clearly. I was lucky to have my Moms parents until fairly recently and their home was a little bit more modern but still had plenty of quirky features - including that wonderful radio :) Keep on planning that big 100th - he'll get there :)
Thank you so much for this! I'm from Canada and saw stuff that we also had across the pond in those houses which was nostalgic for me as well. Thank you so much for these tours and this history lesson!
Very welcome. I adore creating them and meeting folks like yourself in the process x
Lovely! Sweet memories. So much was similar to things here in the US in the 60s.
Thanks so much, I love these houses so much, love sparking memories for people x
Thanks for the tour!❤️🇨🇦
Very welcome Anita x
Another lovely tour! I think that black and white mixer on the counter are still the best! My mom had one. Thank you so much Lucy! You are a dear!!
I had one of those mixers too - but sadly I burnt out the motor making meringue - my bad, it was too old really but I really wanted to experience using one!
Loved the street as well, I used to buy the fry’s chocolate bars from the corner shop
My Mom LOVES a Fry's Cream! :)
Absolutely gorgeous houses, reminds me of my grandmas house
Aren't they gorgeous? Me too - I went around with tears in my eyes because I kept getting things popping into my head I hadn't thought about for many many years. There was even a handbag on the sofa just like my Nan left it - if there had been a knitting bag by the side of the armchair too I would have lost it!
I've really enjoyed your video. I visited the Black Country Museum in 2012 I enjoyed it very much. My hubby went in the Coal Mine. Which he thought was a great experience. I lived in a brick built council house from 1953 to when I got married in 1970. Before that we lived in a metal Nissan hut which dad fitted out for us. 1950 to 1953. My memory of that was a weekly bath before a roaring fire, and toasting crumpets for tea. I was approaching my 5th birthday. I remember our council house was always neat and tidy, my mum didn't like things left lying around. We had a toy cupboard in the living room. Two bedrooms and bathroom with separate toilet upstairs. A boiler in the kitchen that heated water and the airing cupboard on the landing. A coal fire in the tiled fireplace, in the living room. That was change to a gas fire eventually. It was a luxury for mum after the Nissan hut.
Gosh! A Nissan Hut!! I have never heard of people living longer term in those, that is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing - your Mom sounds like mine .. everything has a place .. and out of the way! We weren't allowed toys downstairs, I used to think it was madness when I was a kid, but now I am an adult I understand completely!
Love watching your channel Lucy, I too love stepping back in time, especially to the 1950s and 60s. I remember being a very young child and my mum using Oxydol washing power, what a blast from the past. Wouldn't it be lovely if we had a time machine and could travel back in time,( just for a day) to that era and experience again the sights and sounds of that decade?
I would love that, I imagine some of the smells would make my wrinkle my nose up though, I was obsessed with The Tudors when I was a kid and dreamed of going back until I realised how stinky it would be - assault on the senses 🤣
You randomly came up in my feed. I loved your tour,like you,my eyes teared up as you showed us around the house. I could sense your emotions, well done
Thank you so much! It means ever such a lot x
I went to the Black country museum in the late 1990's. I remember going inside one of the Iron houses.
Oh wow, were they very different then?
@@throughlucyslens to be honest, I can't say.
As a man in my mid sixties watching this brings back memories of my childhood. Having many Aunts and uncles whom we visited often both interiors reflect the houses I would visit all contained a mix of furnishings from different periods Both my grandmothrs had wrap round aprons for everyday work and "Dutch aprons "for Sunday and entertaining.pity you didn't show us the gardens , as these also were a good sign off social differences and pride of owners and tennants alike the Museum has done a great job and I hope the school children to whom you referred learnt something upon. their visit.
The gardens aren't ready yet unfortunately, it looks like they are going to be allotments but at the moment it's just piles of soil .. I shall go back :) Glad it sparked happy memories for you.
This is a wonderful channel! Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it and you are very welcome :)
Ive been excited for the opening of the 1960's street/area for over a year. I really must go now. It looks fab.
Where i live now (Cradley Heath) Im right next to Jones yard and see all the fairground rides over wintered.
Thanks Lucy, your channel is so perfect.
🥹🥹 thank you! I love that you can see the cut from your house. You will love the new stuff, it's the best stuff in the museum at the moment I think x
Hi Lucy great video. I moved into a new council house in 1967 it was made from some type of concrete panels and pebble dashed over they were bleak. It had huge windows and a full length window and glass door in the lounge. This was new to us all this glass, it was single glazed so was always running with condensation in the winter and we had rolled up towels on the sills and floor. It had hot air heating which all came out one vent and the rest of the house was cold. I remember sitting at my mum's sewing machine running up curtains which was a huge expense I can't see many 14 year olds doing that today. It had a Formica kitchen which was great and I remember coming home from school and mum standing there grinning pointing her new fridge we, had never had one before and of course those flannel sheets. The houses are still standing and the owners have tried to make them look less like a prison camp but it has not really worked.
PEBBLEDASH! My goodness - what was it with that stuff? We had it on the house I lived in as a kid too - and it's still there today. I think it's always interesting to hear from people who experienced living in places rather than looking through rose tinted glasses. Thanks for sharing x
Absolutely delighted to see you’ve done the Black country museum and that pair of semis what a treat because when I visited the Black Country Museum just before Christmas those were not open to the public yet but I’ll be making a return visit soon to look for myself
Yes, please do! The maternity home next door is wonderful too but I couldn't film as there were a lot of children about in there x
Another fab video and I’ve learnt something too! Never knew about steel houses. The design is so traditional and very homely. Brilliant to know that the Black Country Museum is adding to its attraction- one to add to the to do list😊
The new bits are absolutely fabulous, there's a new maternity home next door to these houses too :)
As a 61 year old our house had lots of similar things , the blue cupboard in the kitchen ( ours was part of a freestanding unit with glass sliding doors at the top, baking storage with flap down front in the middle and a cupboard with sliding doors at the bottom) also the iconic candy stripe sheets! My Gran had a much older version of the same cupboard , which had so many paint colours visible where it was chipped! Have you been to Beamish in County Durham? If you haven’t try to get there some time, you would absolutely love it! They’re 😢constantly adding to it and last time we went I’m sure they were working on a ‘fifties’ area x
I would LOVE to go - I am planning a visit with my Mom over the summer, we have wanted to go since the 80s when I first saw it on an episode of Blue Peter - this year is the year!
I love your channel! I live in sunny Arizona, and love to see places in the UK. Thanks for that Lucy. Love your energy and channel! All the best…
Gosh, Arizona. Thats amazing! Love right at you "over the pond" as they say x
I am amazed at your museums. So well done and focusing on the work class as well not just upper end or art or royal history. Just love it. Thank you
Thank you very much! I appreciate it. The history of normal people is what I'm really fascinated in x
Another fascinating history lesson. Of the two, I prefer the 1940s side because that's the era I have in my home. Being an early 70s baby, I remember houses with 60s decor, as people didn't update anywhere near as frequently as they do today. Both my grandmas houses had those tiled fireplaces. They each lived in very different houses, one in a 1900s terrace in Kent and the other in a 1950s bungalow in Hertfordshire, but the tiled fireplace was always present.
People just didn't decorate did they? My parents were the first generation who were the "DIY generation" I think - as a child our house was changed every year! It made your head spin. Thanks for your lovely comment, it's a shame so many of those fireplaces were smashed up and thrown on tips - bet they are worth a fortune to interior designers now!
WE still have a whole estate of prefabs in the Ashfield area and they have big plots and they are loved by those living in them .
Oh wow. I am so happy to hear about all these amazing prefabs still being enjoyed. I think they are wonderful!
Excellent Lucy. Thank you so much for sharing this with us....
Very welcome x
I sold my wedding dress in 1966 to buy a kitchen cabinet like that, LOL. Vim still used, loved all this. 😊
I don't blame you - seems like a fair swap to me ;) ... I don't even know where my wedding dress is, that's terrible isn't it! But It was a vintage piece of Ebay, only cost me a couple of quid - wouldn't have got me a kitchen cabinet for sure!
Yessss I recognized Peaky Blinders 😍 Again another amazing time travel. Enjoyed it so much! 🌷
Thank you so so much! Yes! It's Charlie Strongs Arm - they film it at the museum x
OMG, that wall paper is almost exactly the same as my British husband and I had on the entrance hall wall in 1970, in SOUTH AFRICA! We got most of our fancy stuff from the UK then, and we certainly though that was fancy.
Remembering too, that South Africa ran about a year behind the UK in trends.
Wow that's amazing!!! I have absolutely loved to hear this x
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Ive not been to this museum for 15 years, another trip is in order. Much of this reminds me of small Devon towns which were like this to an extent in the 90s, ive heard of iron houses but never seen one.
There are a lot of cob houses near me and a few straw ones. Seeing thease is fascinating.
A small town near me has a pub now a museum stuck in time from the 40s / 50s . My mums cleaning lady who lived until her 80s had no indoor heating apart from a real fire, no hot water and an outside toilet until she died in around 2009, the local mill owned her house but she refused modern conveniences even looking after her elderly mother and husband and working almost until she died
Its great to see our history being preserved lovely video.
Honestly women like that inspire me so much, thank you for sharing.
Hi Lucy my son and his partner of there Sunday for two days he's love it lol ct get over how well yur doing on utube amazing just shows how many people love to look back in time lol ❤
Thank you, glad you had a good time, it's brilliant isn't it? I love the return pass so you can just go time & time again! X
Superb, thanks.
Thank you too!
Just found your channel a few days ago. I'm American. Southerner.
I love your content. The housing types after the war are fascinating. Looking forward to more vids. Going back and watching past content also.
Lori, lovely to hear off you, thank you. That means a lot.
It took me a moment to realise what you meant by 'bottom-shredding toilet paper'😀, but when the penny dropped, I could but smile and agree that if you know.... you know! 😀 Fantastically interesting. Thank you so much. It brought back many memories of that era's housing. What to make in the 60s kitchen? A roast Sunday dinner accompanied by 'Family Favourites' on the radio!
Yes .. that would be lovely .. and back to the loo roll .. the stuff at our school had "property of Birmingham City council" on it - why on earth anyone would want to steal it .. makes me laugh.
Thank you so much for sharing ! Your enthusiasm and engaging commentary always make watching your videos a real treat 😊
Oh thank you SO so much, really appreciated!
Thank you so much for making this video in the wonderful Black Country Museum. I was born in the sixties in Dudley so it really meant something to me. I remember so many of the objects featured in the video. The Ewbank and the stripey flannelette sheets really struck a chord! My very first memory was of watching Mum doing the ironing in the kitchen with "Lilly The Pink" on the radio! Mum used her 1960's washing machine with electric mangle on he top until she had her kitchen refitted in the 1980's
I love your channel. Always informative and fun to watch!
Thank you Catherine. It was the pillowcases and the radio that did it for me. My Nan always had the radio on - it always seemed to be Les Ross and I'd sit at the booth my grandad made out of old bits of wood and be spoilt rotten with loads of cakes & pop 🤭
I visited again a couple of weeks ago to see the new 1960s street (last year we went to see the 1940/50s street) - it’s excellent and well worth a visit - you also get a free visit within 12 months from your ticket.
It's a bargain isn't it ! I'm getting a lot of use out of mine!