{"id":5296,"date":"2016-02-20T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-you-mean-we-need-a-new-cooker-we-only-got-it-in-1963\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:19:52","slug":"what-do-you-mean-we-need-a-new-cooker-we-only-got-it-in-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-you-mean-we-need-a-new-cooker-we-only-got-it-in-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you mean we need a new cooker? We only got it in 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe track down the home appliances that have served for more than a generation and ask why today\u2019s 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 \u00a379 \u2013 more than \u00a31,500 in today\u2019s money \u2013 the Hughes took out a hire purchase\u00ad plan with the Mersey and North Wales Electricity Board, paying \u00a34 18s every three months, spread over four years. But it turned out to be an amazing bargain. Winnifred,\u00ad now 92, used it almost every day since and, she says, \u201cit never let me down\u201d. 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. \u201cIn those days things were built to last,\u201d she says. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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