1940s household

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine October 1941

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine August 1949

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

Hannah Hall, from Nottingham, bought a 1920s-era house in 2016 and decided to unearth its old charm, after copping a working 1940s gas cooker for £16 on eBay.

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

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This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

Download this stock image: 1940s replica grocers shop with packets of food and household items on the shelves at a historical military Reenactment show. UK - E6J927 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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Home design in the 1940s, especially in the kitchen, represented a rapid shift. Older styles and materials were quickly replaced. New ideas ...

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine August 1942

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine October 1940

original 1940s velvet dress and 1930s shoes

1940s kitchen, 1948 - Museum of History and Industry ...

Looking at the Homemaker’s War Guide poster, we can see that housewives were encouraged to support the war effort by making specific changes at home.