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Before the 1960s few people in Britain could afford to discard anything that might be repaired and re-used. Since then the majority of our people have enjoyed the comfort and convenience of a throw-away society.

This ‘Yesteryear Scrapbook’ provides fascinating insight into how people lived when repairing, mending and salvaging were a way of life; a time when hats and car tyres were re-cycled and aluminium saucepans became fighter-planes! One man even built an entire house from material salvaged from bomb-sites ... for the meagre price of £82!

DVD, including:

• Children's Repair Shop - Young Mechanics At Work (1940)
• Patching London - Restoring Buildings In The Blitz (1940)
• Soling And Heeling Tyres - New Treads For Old (1940)
• Pots And Pans For The War-Effort (1941)
• Sort Your Salvage : Re-Cycling Rubbish (1942)
• Make Do And Mend Hats: Stylish Hat From A Trilby (1942)
• Handyman Hancock's £82 House (1945)
• Soapbox Derby: Children’s Home-Made Race (1951),
• and much more ...

DVD total playing time: 20 minutes

CD, including:

• Be Like The Kettle And Sing - Vera Lynn
• I Did What I Could With My Gas Mask - George Formby
• The Thing-Ummy-Bob (That's Going To Win The War) - Arthur Askey
• Albert And His Savings - Stanley Holloway
• We Must All Stick Together - Billy Cotton & His Band
• Potato Pete - Bettie Driver
• Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet - Ella Mae Morse
• and many more ...

CD total playing time: over one hour