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The 1950s Scrapbook

The 1950s Scrapbook

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Author: Robert Opie
Publisher: pi global publishing limited
Category: Book

List Price: £14.95
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 44625

Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 62
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 15.2 x 10.7 x 0.6

ISBN: 0954795423
EAN: 9780954795429
ASIN: 0954795423

Publication Date: November 15, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new book delivered in the UK in 2-3 days. Over 1 million sold to Amazon customers!

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What a fantastic resource!   June 4, 2007
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I am a Year 6 teacher, covering the period from 1948 to the present day with my class in History; and this book has been invaluable to us in our History work this term! The pictures and information hidden in its pages is amazing - particularly for one who was too young to remember the era (I wasn't born till 64!)

One of my class's challenges this term has been to produce a 3D diorama relating to a decade from the 1950s to the 1980s; and this series of books has been an invaluable resource for fashion, toys, produce, sweets and toys of the relative decade.

Thank you, Robert Opie, for your impeccable research!

Whether you were born in this era or not, I am sure you will love the book. Enjoy!



5 out of 5 stars Brill!   June 24, 2006
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

A great source for using in reminiscence with residents in nursing homes, many pages of products that instantly takes you back to special times.


5 out of 5 stars Trafficking in the past   July 21, 2004
 4 out of 21 found this review helpful

"Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate, / These misty parks and motors, lacerate / Simply by being you; you / Contract my heart by looking out of date." [Philip Larkin: Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album.] Actually, Larkin's poem Essential Beauty might be more appropriate: the empty but beguiling visions of perfection seen on so many pages in this book - how old, how quaint, but still the sense there is something here which could be touched - even though the land of lost content is garishly painted it still calls to us. Or me, anyway. Most bizarre, though, is a front cover of the magazine Picture Post. Tommy Steele, cadmiumed to the max (Judith Chalmers is pallid by comparison) grins out at us, but the headline is: "CATTLE TRAFFIC THE TRUTH."


5 out of 5 stars time travel is possible!   November 28, 2001
 37 out of 38 found this review helpful

fancy a trip back to the 1950s? climb into your time machine open the front cover and you're there,pay a visit to a sweet shop you can pick up a tiffin bar for 6d or frys 5 boys for 3d, pop into the chemists for some gleem toothpaste this is a magical ride through the '50s crammed with over 1000 sumptiously photographed products, some are still going strong today others lost in the mists of time .a fabulous book