1950s

The hall is the first part of 1950s town, part of the [pounds sterling]20million Remaking Beamish project -- the biggest development in the County Durhammuseum'shistory.

What of the female fans who followed United during those halcyon 1950s days?

Beamish is building a 1950s Town as part of the PS18m Remaking Beamish project, which has been awarded PS10.9m by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Home, I'm Darling, by Laura Wade, explores the 1950s ideal that it's all good clean fun at one level but not as sweet as it might appear on another level.

Coming little less than a week after his wife Linda died, viewers will come to this with a much more acute sense of how important the 1950s was for the Treforest-born singer, as not only was it the decade he fell in love with rock 'n' roll, but he also fell head over heels for local girl Melinda Trenchard - whom he described in his recent autobiography as "a cut above me academically and a cut above me socially, too".

In the 1950s there was full employment in the UK with only 186,000 unemployed at a minimum, compared with 2.5 million now.

The least expensive spirits now cost as little as $0.25 per standard drink in some states, compared to about $1.60 in the 1950s. And the real value of state and federal alcohol taxes are now only about one-sixth their 1950 values.

Findings show that women of the 1950s spent an incredible 50 hours each week on housework - 12 more than the average full-time job today**.

In the 1950s, feminism had not yet freed women from the home and so men didn't need to lift a finger.

Fridges were rare in the 1950s, and the internet nonexistent.

We are holding a Jubilee celebration event in July for our graduate Early Years Professionals and Senior Practitioners and would like to hear from nursery nurses, child minders and early years teachers who trained in 1952 (or the early 1950s).

Almost everyone agrees that racial discrimination in the United States has changed drastically since the 1950s. But African Americans and white Americans disagree on the extent and the nature of that change, Michael I.

They included Newton-John who as a young child emigrated to Australia with her family in the early 1950s.

A BIRMINGHAM school is hoping to bring history to life by tracing tradesman who built its original buildings back in the 1950s.

Canlis, a noted Seattle restaurant, is feting the occasion by offering customers 1950s prices, with a catch.