The Way We Were

With the cost of food and fuel rising almost daily a lot of folk are talking about returning to the housekeeping ways of days gone by, this is understandable but I wonder if we really realise just how hard life was then. Last summer I visited the last remaining bungalow at Laindon Plotlands, where time has stayed still, well worth a visit, I think there was once a tv series based on the people, who moved out from London to live on, what was often not much more than a 20ft wide plot of old farmland there,some in tents, some in old railway carriages but some built their own bungalows carrying bit by bit on regular train journeys to Laindon, and here is a reminder of what life was like in the 40's

Washday 1940's style and the kitchen and larder of the times! I think we are all going to have to get fit if we ever have to return to this.