Property News · February 20, 2016

What do you mean we need a new cooker? We only got it in 1963


We track down the home appliances that have served for more than a generation and ask why today’s white goods fall apart so quicklyIt was 1963. John F Kennedy was president of the US, the Beatles had released their first album, and Winnifred Hughes of Crewe, then 39, had become the proud owner of an ultra-modern Belling Classic electric oven. At £79 – more than £1,500 in today’s money – the Hughes took out a hire purchase­ plan with the Mersey and North Wales Electricity Board, paying £4 18s every three months, spread over four years. But it turned out to be an amazing bargain. Winnifred,­ now 92, used it almost every day since and, she says, “it never let me down”. It had remained in immaculate order for all of its 53 years, cooking meals for her family of five, including a roast dinner every Sunday. “In those days things were built to last,” she says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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