This was the house in 1952 during the Queen’s coronation

In 1952, this house was the home of a hostess. After marriage, they rarely get paid jobs and are very proud of their more personal territory, especially the kitchen.

At the time, ministry was almost a thing of the past, but many middle-class married women “helped” around the home, going out to clean and help several times a week or even daily. Maybe a more boring job like polishing silver.

Here, with the help of Robert Op of the Museum of Marks, we’ll take a look at the styles and trends of the era that continue to influence design today.

Ს Kitchen

A well-equipped kitchen is already in the English house, claiming that the last word was style. Most of the kitchens had gas stoves, but their custom style was very different from the ugly, outdated single units of the ’30s and ’40s.

In fact, the integrated kitchen trend has started and is still in fashion. The color was a bright pastel color. I think it’s mint green, strawberry pink and turquoise.

The floor could have an amazing pattern in linoleum, reinvented and resold.

Black and white plaids were especially popular in the coffee shop community, as were dramatic red and white color schemes inspired by Coca-Cola colors that had a publicity stint in the 1950s: former Eddie Fisher of Elizabeth Taylor, Corks. Over time, and in 1950, the Coke bottle became the first product to decorate the cover of a magazine. Even refrigerators began to come in different colors at the end of the decade.

It is the pride of housewives in their kitchens, and ads feature the appliances as gifts for husbands to give to their loyal wives for birthdays and Christmas.

The housewives were excited about the new variety of detergents and detergents. Drift came in 1937, Teddy came in 1950, followed by Surf in 1952.

Later it was Daji and Omo, and the losers were Oxidol and Linso. Persil (1909) endured his “amazing oxygen washer”.

pantry

The most common way to cool food was in a pantry or salad bar with a cold rack where butter, milk, and cheese were stored.

Distribution continued until 1954, and there was still a shortage of sugar, butter, cheese, margarine, cooked fat, bacon, and meat. However, tea distribution has ended and the launch of Tetley tea bags is a new and convenient concept.

After the final ration was completed, in 1954 the Housewives’ Association joined Trafalgar Square for meat. Some of the distributed books were buried in a mock funeral. It is said that the Minister of Fuel fired.

The major food brands of 1952 are still some of the most successful today. For example, Heinz’s tomato soup.

Breakfast cereals were a staple of the 1940s. Shredded wheat, Kellogg’s cornflakes, rice krispies, force and weetabix are the leading breakfast brands today.

The key word is “instant” and instant pudding and coffee reflect future optimism. The trend was to have a comfortable life with new furniture and appliances.

Ს Washing machine

Monday is laundry day for most families, and a family of four needs most of the day.

If you have a washing machine, you can enjoy a bathroom with a doorbell. You have to enter from the tap.

After washing it, I took it out of the hot water with large wooden tongs and put a finger on it.

If you weren’t lucky enough to have a “laundry shop,” the machine was filled with steam when the first whites were washed, then relied on a kitchen that dyed the clothes when the water cooled.

Without a dryer, clothes were hung on horses in winter and in the rain, and turned on in the kitchen, often in the warmest rooms of the house, and hung in the air. Those who have a backyard or patio can put a wooden skirt on the clothes line and hang out on a dry day.

The first British laundry opened in London in May 1949 and was coin-operated. It was popular in the late 1950s and late 1960s, but could not compete with modern housing kits.

When the clothes are dry, start ironing. Many housewives had electric irons, far from the old irons that had to be heated on the stove. However, there was no mechanism to charge for clothing.

One woman recalled that her mother’s first model was plugged into a ceiling light socket with a special adapter. This often caused the lollipops to explode.

refrigerator

Modern refrigerators were invented in the 1920s, but they were very expensive and were owned by wealthy people until the 1950s.

When the Queen became monarch, it was very rare for people to have a refrigerator at home.

Many people who were babies at the time remember putting milk bottles on the outside window sill to keep them cool until the 1960s.

Robert Op, founder of the London Brand Museum, said:

There was little intake of frozen food (fish fingers did not debut until 1955). Few people could freeze it, and most women shopped daily at herbalists, butchers, and local bakeries.

electric boiler

Electric boilers were introduced in the late 19th century as an alternative to stove boilers.

However, they were very primitive and the heating elements were stored in a separate compartment below the water storage area.

The design was inefficient, even compared to the traditional boiler-stoves of the time.

In 1922 Bulpitt & Sons of Birmingham developed a more efficient model, but in 1955 the newly established Russell Hobbes launched the stainless steel Model K1 as the first fully automated boiler.

The design was so effective and popular that it was later widely adopted by other manufacturers.

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