Your 1950s: More pictures

Stevan Abram's family used colour positive film to take this shot in 1952. Stevan is the baby and he's pictured with his mother, grandmother and aunt on a caravan holiday.

Dave Stewart's family and friends at Clacton in 1954. Holidays were always to the seaside, he says, but some beach-lovers were more inhibited than others.

Auld Brig, Alloway, 1958. Janice Davis (right) says this reminds her how education democratised. Both girls later went to university in Glasgow, thanks to their parents' hard work.

German prisoners built the narrow concrete roads on this council estate in Canley, Coventry, says Eric Hollingsworth. Some Germans stayed in the area throughout the 50s.

Coronation Day, St Paul's Church, East Ham, London. Derek Worster (second from bottom right) says jelly, blancmange and jam abounded.

The so-called "Quarry" Christmas Party in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, in 1953 or 1954, submitted by Alan Breward.

Bombed building in London, 1954. Neil Graham-Cameron took this shot of his friend Daph. There was no yellow and black tape to warn people away from the site, he says.

Theodora Simons is the baby on the right. She was born in 1949 and the photo was taken the following summer on a South Wales beach.

Jenkins Robinson says: "This is my grandmother (cigarette as ever in hand) and her two sisters in Blackpool in 1953."

A reader sent in this Evening Standard front page from 6 February 1952. After 16 years on the throne King George VI passed away in his sleep.

American designer Charles Eames has inspired many iconic designs of the 20th Century, particularly in furniture, one reader notes.

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