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Things were a lot different in 1910
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In the last 100 years there have been hundreds of great inventions and discoveries that have improved living in this country both in the home, healthwise and in many other respects but there are also lots of things we have "lost" in the interim. I am glad I was not living at that time because of the horrors of the two world wars. But I can list a few things that we did without and managed very well. Here goes....
Additives to our food ("E" numbers for instance)
Junk mail
Post codes
Supermarkets and the endless choices we have to make over every purchase
Canned dog and cat food
Loyalty cards
The euro
Television
Additives to our food ("E" numbers for instance)
Junk mail
Post codes
Supermarkets and the endless choices we have to make over every purchase
Canned dog and cat food
Loyalty cards
The euro
Television
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Many things have changed for the better but I can also think of many things of value which have been lost. Maternity care for women is now more or less safe, whereas then it was risky but abortion was not available on demand and practically used as contraception. I don't know what to think as back street abortions were often fatal.
Meat from cud chewing animals had not come from stock that had been fed on the animal remains of other herbivores. This resulted in scrapie and the more recent effects of beef cattle fed on this stuff.
Also the chicken was not injected with water to add to the weight and not washed in saline to be replaced and back on the shelf (in supermarkets).
Also the chicken was not injected with water to add to the weight and not washed in saline to be replaced and back on the shelf (in supermarkets).
There is an old and, I believe, very wise saying handed down to me from my parents and grandparents viz 'What you've never had you never miss'. I remember as a small boy in the 50s thinking it incredulous that my mother (born 1916) did not listen to the radio, as BBC broadcasting didn't start until 1922, and that to go to the toilet she actually had to go outside the house and use the communal facilities in the back lane.
When I went up to university in 1972 the idea that before the end of the decade we would have a woman Prime Minister, or that within 20 years women would become priests in the C of E was generally laughed out of court. The state of the art form of entertainment equipment was the portable cassette player. How quaint that sounds now. I certainly did not imagine at the time that nearly 40 years on I would be able to purchase a piece of equipment wich would allow me to communicate almost instantaneously with anyone in the world at next no no cost.
I suppose my point is this: people in 1910 were generally no more, and no less, content with their lot than are people in 2010.
When I went up to university in 1972 the idea that before the end of the decade we would have a woman Prime Minister, or that within 20 years women would become priests in the C of E was generally laughed out of court. The state of the art form of entertainment equipment was the portable cassette player. How quaint that sounds now. I certainly did not imagine at the time that nearly 40 years on I would be able to purchase a piece of equipment wich would allow me to communicate almost instantaneously with anyone in the world at next no no cost.
I suppose my point is this: people in 1910 were generally no more, and no less, content with their lot than are people in 2010.
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