Introduction to the Thrifty Fifties
"Never had it so good"
"For some the fifties were a golden age. Public figures were automatically respected, authority was deferred to inside as well as outside the home, and children grew up with an unquestioning sense of security. For others they were dull and restrictive as monochrome as the picture on the nations television sets. But Britons were undeniably better off as material prosperity swept away the last vestiges of austerity. "most of our people never had it so good" declared Harold Macmillan and on the basis of their own experience, most believed him."
-Readers Didgest Yesterdays Britain
Whilst, In terms of the process that made the school Cwmbran Development Corporation it had successfully created a settlement out of almost nothing. An example of this is that the 1929 Census shows very little development which was mostly situated in old Cwmbran, and a few farm sted’s and if you go back to the 1840's there were only a few farms located in Cwmbran the "Valley of the crows" which again, is a direct reference to farming ancestory.
The vast majority of the students including our long standing secretary Mrs Armitt moved there in the 1950's taking up the availability of housing in the then extremely prosperous South East Wales coal fields.
"For some the fifties were a golden age. Public figures were automatically respected, authority was deferred to inside as well as outside the home, and children grew up with an unquestioning sense of security. For others they were dull and restrictive as monochrome as the picture on the nations television sets. But Britons were undeniably better off as material prosperity swept away the last vestiges of austerity. "most of our people never had it so good" declared Harold Macmillan and on the basis of their own experience, most believed him."
-Readers Didgest Yesterdays Britain
Whilst, In terms of the process that made the school Cwmbran Development Corporation it had successfully created a settlement out of almost nothing. An example of this is that the 1929 Census shows very little development which was mostly situated in old Cwmbran, and a few farm sted’s and if you go back to the 1840's there were only a few farms located in Cwmbran the "Valley of the crows" which again, is a direct reference to farming ancestory.
The vast majority of the students including our long standing secretary Mrs Armitt moved there in the 1950's taking up the availability of housing in the then extremely prosperous South East Wales coal fields.