Life Since 1948

A selection of images on the theme of Life since 1948 covering a variety of topics including buildings, shopping and transport. Check out our Teaching Activity Life Since 1948: Building Blocks

Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Newbury by-pass under construction at Speen Moor Plantation An aerial view of the Newbury by-pass under construction at Speen Moor Plantation. Work started in 1996 against much opposition and the road finally opened in 1998.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Market House, Market Place, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire A view of the market in Ross-on-Wye showing people gathered around stalls outside the market hall of 1660-74.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Pontins Holiday Village, Southport, Merseyside This £2.5 million, 700 chalet holiday development was built in 1970 at the height of the British Holiday Camp industry. The 'Hotel Pontinental' opened in Torremelinos just one year later. Although many camps have since closed in the face of stiff competition from cheap package holidays abroad, Southport remains part of the Pontins empire and continues to operate as a holiday camp.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Brockwell Park, Streatham, Greater London Children playing on a slide outside a high rise block in a post-War housing development close to Brockwell Park. The neighbouring block is Bedford House.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Centre Point, New Oxford Street, Holborn, London A 1960s office block that was very controversial when it was built. It was one of the most important speculative office developments of its period in Britain.It was built between 1961-66 by Richard Seifert and Partners; George Marsh was the designer. The 35-storey tower block faces on to Charing Cross Road. It has a raised glazed link at first floor level to a rear block containing shops, offices and residential flats.	Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Picking tulips near Fulney, Spalding, Lincolnshire The tulip was introduced into Europe in the 16th century from Turkey and takes its name from the French word for turban. Here two women remove the flower heads manually in order to promote bulb development.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Railway viaduct, Marple, Greater Manchester A view of a railway viaduct in Marple showing a steam goods train running beside the Peak Forest Canal.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR The Twin Foxes, Harlow New Town, Essex New towns were built on greenfield sites and provided with shops and services as well as housing.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo, Huskisson Dock, Liverpool Concrete is alternately poured into the ribs and then the walls of the silo. Many hands make light work of tipping the concrete from the container. They will have to pack down the building material while the crane raises the next load.	Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Street market, North London A woman buys fruit at a stall in a North London street market.
Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Forton Services, M6, Forton, Lancashire Britain's motorway network was started in the 1960s providing improved transport links for the growing number of cars. This service station was one of the earliest.	Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Glanthams, 9 Hutton Road, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex A view of the garage on Hutton Road with motor vehicles parked outside. The garage began trading at the beginning of the 20th century.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Vye & Son, Grocer, High Street, Lydd, Kent Two assistants pose for a photograph in the summer sun outside the door of the shop. The window display advertises plenty of special offers inside.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR West Norwood Library, Streatham, Greater London The children's section in West Norwood Library. The library was built in 1969.
Add to My Favourites Crown copyright.NMR The Galleria, Hatfield, Hertfordshire Originally planned as a retail and leisure complex with 130 shops, The Galleria ran into financial difficulties and now houses about 60 outlet and discount stores. It was the first building of it type to be positioned over a motorway, the A1 (M), and had the largest single-span steel roof in Europe when it opened.	Add to My Favourites Crown copyright.NMR Miners' march, Tuckingmill, Carn Brea, Cornwall South Crofty Tin Mine closed on Friday, 6 March 1998. The following day miners marched from Camborne to the mine to commemorate their mining heritage. A strong sense of patriotism can be seen in the dress, flags and faces of these people, to whom Cornwall is more of a country than a county.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Wednesday Market, Newark, Nottinghamshire Like many English towns Newark has a regular market day. Although some of the types of fruit would have puzzled the earlier inhabitants of Newark, the scene has probably not changed drastically for centuries.	Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Bluewater, near Stone, Greenhithe, Kent Bluewater near Stone in Kent is an out-of-town shopping complex built in a disused chalk pit. The central 'V' shaped mall seen here from the air is surrounded by vast car parks.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Car Depot, Corby, Northamptonshire A car distribution depot at Corby.