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Thursday, 24 May 2007, 16:25 GMT 17:25 UK

Your 1950s: More pictures

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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 and family

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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.

Janice Davis and friends, 1958

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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.

From left: Evelyn Coates, Carol Millward and Wendy Thickens

From left: Evelyn Coates, Carol Millward and Wendy Thickens

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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.

Worster

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

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

Graham

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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.

Beach in South Wales

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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.

Blackpool, 1953

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

Evening Standard, 1952

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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.

Eames-inspired chair

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

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