My 1930s Home
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The March cover of BfK features Dilly the Dinosaur who is 10 years old this year. Her author, Tony Bradman, is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in reproducing this illustration from Susan Hellard's original artwork.
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The Thirties was a period of contrasting fortunes. The Depression brought misery to many, but paradoxically because the price of goods in the shops fell, people who had jobs could actually buy more. Lots of people decided to buy houses.
For this latest title in a series which looks at homes from a former time, but still lived in by families today, the author has chosen one of the most popular styles of the era, the mock-Tudor design.
Photographs and artwork contrast the changes that have taken place since the house was built and furnished in 1932. The text cleverly combines commentary on the very different lifestyles of past and present owners with additional background information thus providing a more rounded portrait of an era when a fridge cost more than twice the price of a suite of bedroom furniture.
