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Goodness, maybe valued more as an antique by then?

The old boy (what am I saying? He's probably younger than I am now) appears to be comfortable and warm, with decent clothes and shoes, so he's doing better in many ways than today's poor.

Yes!

Or was the chair bought from a junk shop as very unfashionable? My grandmother (died 2007) never had a gas or electric cooker. When she and my grandfather bought their house in 1947 it had a Victorian range. They replaced that with an Esse in the 1960s, and the Esse with an Aga in the 1990s.

We had a neighbour when I was a child, in the 1970s, who still had a range in her living room, and she still had gas mantles instead of electric lights…!

That's like the "before" pic to that "spontaneous human combustion" image that scared the shit out of us all as kids in the 70s.

Apart from that little fire, think how tiny his carbon footprint was in every other way. No central heating, no car, no jet travel, no fast fashion, etc etc

another great photo - thanks again for posting

He’s thinking “I’m gonna make it all….. grey” 🙄😂

Great shot

Although the houses were dark and old-fashioned, I’ve got really happy memories of visiting them.

Kind of shocking that this was the 60s. Would have guessed decades earlier

My neighbour still has a range like that.

Part of Blackburn Library's image collection which is available through Cotton Town cottontown.org

the permissive society in the swinging sixties

Ah yes…the ‘good old days’.