There is no doubt that British television produces excellent
period dramas; ‘call the midwife’ is one of these but it is because of a small
error in it that I am writing this. Sitting round a fire outside, a group of
midwives and nuns were having a pleasant evening – but the fire was wrong! Nobody in the 50s would have burnt wood that
was clean and could clearly have been used for something more useful. Even now
you will find men well into their retirement keeping bits and pieces that could
be useful – bits of wood, tube, metal, fittings and furniture – almost anything
that might be used at a later date to make or mend something without the need
to spend anything other than a little time, knowledge and effort; what is rubbish to some is treasure to others. The make do
and mend mindset was the forerunner of fashionable green recycling.
1 comment:
Actually during the 1950's enormous quantities of Victorian mahogany furniture was burnt, not because we needed to keep warm, but because it was old fashioned. These days of course it might be featured on the Antiques Road Show if it still existed. "That would be worth £500 at auction" "Thankyou very much."
Those were the days of that fantastic new material Formica, lovely shiney table tops, easy to clean, etc, etc, and of course modern.
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