The ‘knocker-up’ has really captivated us here at the Modern Backdrop HQ. In this weeks’ blog post we are coming back to share our progress in trying to identify who this person was in Salford during the middle of the last century. When we first posted about the ‘knocker-up’ in April this year, we posted […]
by Rosalind Edwards (University of Southampton) and Val Gillies (University of Westminster) Rosalind Edwards is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton. This blog post is related to her research that focusses on family lives and policies concerning family. It discusses a fascinating diary by Pat Marsden, wife of the sociologist Dennis Marsden. […]
Let us, however, be far sighted in our plans and not discard the desirable for the attainable – that which is right for that which is expedient. S. C. Hamburger Chairman of Building and Development committee, February 1952. In 1952 the City Council published the abridged version of its 20-year development plan drafted by the […]