How we lived

Your Arrowsmith Holidays questions answered

Harry Bowden-Smith 3 June 2018 1

The complexities of booking a package holiday in 1967 explained by Arrowsmith Tours

Dream Topping

Russ J Graham 21 October 2016 0

A cheap and cheerful - and tasty! - replacement for cream

Colour TV

Russ J Graham 7 October 2016 0

Real life colour is here!

Reel-to-reel tapes

Kif Bowden-Smith 25 August 2016 0

Reel-to-reel tape recorders: possibly the ultimate present.

Pin-ups

ATV Television Showbook 1963 26 July 2016 0

Our favourite male celebrities.

Nourishment

Russ J Graham 25 July 2016 0

When everything was filled with goodness and nourishment.

Drink driving

Russ J Graham 23 July 2016 0

The breathalyser arrives to save lives

Early closing day

Jessica Fielding 22 July 2016 0

Shopping days and not shopping days.

Fly away

Russ J Graham 21 July 2016 0

The standard British holiday changed forever as the egg and chips moved from Morecambe to Majorca.

Tickets please

Kif Bowden-Smith 16 July 2016 0

Why not get a £3 0s 0d return from Liverpool to London by brand new electric train?

Stamps

Russ J Graham 14 July 2016 0

Probably the most popular hobby of the 1950s, stamp collecting was still a huge pastime for children and young adults of the 1960s.

Sixpence

Kif Bowden-Smith 13 July 2016 0

The most useful coin for a child in the 1960s.

Rowntree’s Tokens

Russ J Graham 11 July 2016 1

For the department of "forgotten products": Rowntree's Tokens.

Party time

Jessica Fielding 10 July 2016 0

People's memories of what we wore in the 1960s are almost invariably wrong.