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| This was the golden age of travel, with trains and boats being the main modes of transport. P&O and Cunard advertised cruises to exotic places and the Orient Express created a magical, moving world of luxury that only the lucky privileged classes could dream of affording. We learnt that “Guinness is good for you” that we should “refresh” ourselves with Coca-cola. In the home Hoover “beats as it sweeps as it cleans” and Electrolux creates a “new standard in home cleanliness”. Young men developed manual dexterity with Meccano and their imagination by reading Boys’ Own and tales of Sherlock Holmes. Tea dancing was popular in Britain with slender ladies in dropped waist dresses and round toed shoes smelling of Yardley perfume and 4711 eau-de-cologne. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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