The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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A Day in a Baby's Life
A 1950s baby’s day depicted
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Overview
A 1950s baby’s upbringing was different from today’s baby’s and modern co-parenting. Mother was in charge of the home. A baby had a strict routine and baby-proofing consisted of a pen to allow mother to get on with chores. A 1950s mum dressed her baby in terry towelling nappies, boil-washed daily. An outing was grand affair in a Silver Cross Pram, the height of luxury. A baby would have had a strict routine and constant maternal supervision.
Children of the 1950s grow up with rationing, especially for clothes and sugar but with economic progress came improvements in public health and education. Colour TV, the microwave oven, automatic doors, ultrasound, the contraceptive pill, bubble wrap, the 3-point seatbelt, velcro, TV dinners, diet pop and credit cards all came about in 1950s even if they weren’t all commercialised until the sixties.
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