
Think holiday camps and Butlins with home bars and cocktail cabinets a very fashionable accessory in your home.
Flat-packed furniture was introduced with tops laminated in a marble or wood effect.
The Queen’s Coronation meant mass production of souvenir items, from biscuit tins to cigarette holders.
Tupperware parties were popping up with melamine plastic tableware very fashionable.
Wall art and prints of swans and flamingos, think Coronation Street. Everything was patterned, from wallpaper, carpets, curtains and cushions which are coming back into fashion at the moment.
The most popular tipple of the 1950’s was Babycham with collectable glasses with the babysham on them.
