The VANISHED Rituals of the 1960s High Street: We’ll Never See Again
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If you grew up in 1960s Britain, Saturday morning on the high street was a ritual of pure sights and smells. You clutched a cold sixpence while Mum’s wicker basket knocked against your coat. You caught the rich sizzle of steak and prawn cocktail drifting from the velvet curtains of the Berni Inn. You smelled the sharp carbolic soap and heavy steam billowing from the public baths. You heard the static pop of a 45-rpm single inside a cramped record booth, and saw faces pressed against the showroom window just to catch the test card in colour. Today, we step straight back into the 1960s to revisit eight lost places every child from that era remembers.
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The VANISHED Rituals of the 1960s High Street: We’ll Never See Again
Yesterday UK
5,637 views
If you grew up in 1960s Britain, Saturday morning on the high street was a ritual of pure sights and smells. You clutched a cold sixpence while Mum’s wicker basket knocked against your coat. You caught the rich sizzle of steak and prawn cocktail drifting from the velvet curtains of the Berni Inn. You smelled the sharp carbolic soap and heavy steam billowing from the public baths. You heard the static pop of a 45-rpm single inside a cramped record booth, and saw faces pressed against the showroom window just to catch the test card in colour. Today, we step straight back into the 1960s to revisit eight lost places every child from that era remembers.
Which of these 8 places brought back the strongest memory for you? Tell us the name of the town you grew up in below—we read every single one!