Make Do and Mend - (DVD, CD, Booklet)

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Make Do and Mend - (DVD, CD, Booklet)

Before the 1960s few people in Britain could afford to discard anything that might be repaired and re-used. Since then the majority of our people have enjoyed the comfort and convenience of a throw-away society. This ‘Yesteryear Scrapbook’ provides fascinating insight into how people lived when repairing, mending and salvaging were a way of life; a time when hats and car tyres were re-cycled and aluminium saucepans became fighter-planes! One man even built an entire house from material salvaged from bomb-sites ... for the meagre price of £82!

DVD
Rare Pathe newsreel footage, including:
Children’s Repair Shop - Young Mechanics At Work
(1940) • Patching London - Restoring Buildings In The
Blitz (1940) • Soling And Heeling Tyres - New Treads For
Old (1940) • Pots And Pans For The War-Effort (1941)
Sort Your Salvage: Re-Cycling Rubbish (1942), Make Do
And Mend Hats: Stylish Hat From A Trilby (1942)
Handyman Hancock’s £82 House (1945) • Soapbox
Derby: Children’s Home-Made Race (1951)
and much more ...

CD
20 Original recordings, including: Be Like The Kettle And Sing -
Vera Lynn • I Did What I Could With My Gas Mask - George Formby
The Thing-Ummy-Bob (That’s Going To Win The War) - Arthur
Askey • Albert And His Savings - Stanley Holloway • We Must All
Stick Together - Billy Cotton & His Band • Potato Pete - Bettie
Driver • You Can’t Take The Breed From British - Western Brothers,
and many more ...

Running Time: DVD 20 Minutes, CD 60 Minutes
Format: PAL DVD
Catalogue No: GLM/Y/YSB08