The 1950s Scrapbook (Scrapbook)

Love thisGreat to remember my childhood

Great for my aunt who is in a nursing home to look at

This scrap book showing numerous photographs of objects and products used so soon after the second world war. As a family we never saw many at the time but heard about them.

A really good book to stir the memory visually, but if you want to follow-the images by reading the script, this is virtually impossible so this makes the book little use for research or generally to identify an image. The reason for this is that in order to make it seem more like a home-made scrapbook the font used is 'hand-writing'. What might have helped is to have all the writing at the back is a font that can be read. Nothing has been thought of the needs of the reader - and it can't be read, don't bother to write it...... or provision of a microscope might help! To show the difficulty of identifying an image, I wanted to know a pop-star, not listed, and being in the margin crease information unavilable.The score of 4 is generous, as it is visually very effective - and will to open up conversations with older people, but 3.5 would have be fairer, to knock off 1.5 stars for the pour script presentation.

What a big book full of nostalgia! Worth every single penny. Extraordinary good quality paper and print covering so many objects and memories from my past. It's addictive!!! Can't put it down. Robert Opie never fails to please his readers. Highly recommend this beautiful book.

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!

Another plod down memory lane. Loved it

I bought this scrapbook following my interest in the 1950s after watching 'Call the Midwife'. I really love this book because it brings out the best of the '50s. I really enjoy looking at books which have mostly pictures in (this scrapbook has little text) so it doesn't contain many facts but it gives you a wonderful insight into '50as life through packaging '50s people would have seen every day. I love Robert Opie books and merchandise, I would recommend anything by him. I find that I can look through this book repeatedly without getting g bored and I always seem to find something I didn't notice before. It is great for referencing events like the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II because it shows hankies, tins, picture books etc from that time. A truly brilliant book!

This entire series is great. I am a graphic designer and I use them all the time. They are British ephemera based, but the styles and colours are well represented. One double page collage or scrapbook for ads, foods, toys, fashion, makeup, transportation, new fangled gadgets etc. . These books are large, 15" high x 10 1/2" wide and 1/2" thick. You get to see lots of details in the images and lots of areas of life at that time is covered. Enjoyable, entertaining, good reference book. This was the last one I needed to complete the entire series. Thrilled.

Purchased this book for my husband. He was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and I've been trying to find things to keep his brain stimulated with memories. He has enjoyed flipping through the pages that are filled with pictures and recognizing things he grew up with. I'd recommend this book for anyone Sr or young person alike.

Excellent!

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