24-11-2018 - Mural by Art SRX, A 1950s couple light a Coca Cola molotov cocktail, Custard factory, Birmingham © John Harris

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

19-11-2011 - Don't Turn Back Time on Women's Equality, 1950s dress themed London protest by the Fawcett Society. © Philip Wolmuth

09-11-2010 - A child's rocking horse on the 1950s Gurnos council housing estate, based on the Radburn system. Merthyr Tydfil It is one of the unhealthiest places in Britain due to the high levels of long term unem... © David Mansell

08-11-2010 - Waiting at the bus stop on the 1950s Gurnos council housing estate based on the Radburn system. Merthyr Tydfil has high levels of long term unemployment. It has the highest number of people claiming s... © David Mansell

08-11-2010 - A disable man with a child going past a mural: Look to the Future (by LLOYD ROBERTS), on the shopping centre, on the Gurnos council housing estate which dates from the 1950s, Merthyr Tydfil © David Mansell

08-11-2010 - A young mother and child in a pushchair walk past a mural: Look to the Future (by LLOYD ROBERTS), on the shopping centre, the Gurnos council housing estate which dates from the 1950s, Merthyr Tydfil © David Mansell

08-11-2010 - A man using a public telephone box on the 1950s Gurnos council housing estate based on the Radburn system. Merthyr Tydfil has high levels of long term unemployment. It has the highest number of people... © David Mansell

08-05-2009 - Park Hill council housing estate. A part-privatisation regeneration scheme by the developer Urban Splash is turning the 1950s Grade 2 listed flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social h... © Jess Hurd

08-05-2009 - Park Hill council housing estate. A part-privatisation regeneration scheme by the developer Urban Splash is turning the 1950s Grade 2 listed flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social h... © Jess Hurd

08-05-2009 - Park Hill council housing estate. A part-privatisation regeneration scheme by the developer Urban Splash is turning the 1950s Grade 2 listed flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social h... © Jess Hurd

08-05-2009 - Park Hill council housing estate. A part-privatisation regeneration scheme by the developer Urban Splash is turning the 1950s Grade 2 listed flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social h... © Jess Hurd

08-05-2009 - Park Hill council housing estate. A part-privatisation regeneration scheme by the developer Urban Splash is turning the 1950s Grade 2 listed flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social h... © Jess Hurd

26-07-2007 - Shoeburyness Cold War defence boom, built early 1950s to prevent enemy submarines from accessing the River Thames, Essex. The boom comprised two off set rows of concrete piles, linked by angle iron st... © Jess Hurd

26-07-2007 - Shoeburyness Cold War defence boom, built early 1950s to prevent enemy submarines from accessing the River Thames, Essex. The boom comprised two off set rows of concrete piles, linked by angle iron st... © Jess Hurd

26-07-2007 - Shoeburyness Cold War defence boom, built early 1950s to prevent enemy submarines from accessing the River Thames, Essex. The boom comprised two off set rows of concrete piles, linked by angle iron st... © Jess Hurd

26-07-2007 - Shoeburyness Cold War defence boom, built early 1950s to prevent enemy submarines from accessing the River Thames, Essex. The boom comprised two off set rows of concrete piles, linked by angle iron st... © Jess Hurd

26-07-2007 - Shoeburyness Cold War defence boom, built early 1950s to prevent enemy submarines from accessing the River Thames, Essex. The boom comprised two off set rows of concrete piles, linked by angle iron st... © Jess Hurd

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A family with children. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction They are being demolished and the residents re housed. A mother with... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A family with children. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and th... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and th... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A family with children. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A family with children. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and th... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and th... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are sufferring from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident removes an old fridge. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident removes an old fridge. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident removes an old fridge. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident removes an old fridge. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A resident removes an old fridge. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the... © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are being demolished and the residents re housed. © Paul Box

24-03-2005 - A mother and child. A resident outside condemmed home. Council Houses in Filton, Bristol. They were built in the 1950s and are suffering from concrete decay due to Alkali Silica reaction. They are bei... © Paul Box

03-05-1997 - Woman with shopping walking through a housing estate, Nowa Huta, Poland, a town built around the steelworks in the 1950s © Janina Struk

03-03-1997 - Nowa Huta steelworks, one of the largest industrial plants in Poland, was built in the 1950s near Krakow. It is gradually being closed down due to high pollution levels. © Janina Struk

03-03-1997 - Nowa Huta steelworks, one of the largest industrial plants in Poland, was built in the 1950s near Krakow. It is gradually being closed down due to high pollution levels. © Janina Struk

03-03-1997 - Nowa Huta steelworks, one of the largest industrial plants in Poland, was built in the 1950s near Krakow. It is gradually being closed down due to high pollution levels. © Janina Struk

09-12-1959 - Well dressed woman with her pet poodle in a Mayfair bar in London, 1959. © Alan Vines

09-12-1959 - Well dressed woman with her pet poodle in a Mayfair bar in London, 1959. © Alan Vines

09-12-1959 - Anti-Apartheid rally in central London calling for a boycott of South African goods,1959. © Alan Vines

26-11-1959 - Austrian Composer Hanns Eisler 1959, composer of the GDR National Anthem and a long time musical and political associate of Bertolt Brecht, London © Alan Vines

26-11-1959 - Austrian Composer Hanns Eisler 1959, composer of the GDR National Anthem and a long time musical and political associate of Bertolt Brecht, London © Alan Vines

26-11-1959 - Austrian Composer Hanns Eisler 1959, composer of the GDR National Anthem and a long time musical and political associate of Bertolt Brecht, London © Alan Vines

17-11-1959 - Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis at his home London 1959 © Alan Vines

13-11-1959 - Philip Noel-Baker, London 1959, renowned campaigner for nuclear disarmament and winner of 1959 Nobel Peace Prize. He was a politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete © Alan Vines

13-11-1959 - Philip Noel-Baker, London 1959, renowned campaigner for nuclear disarmament and winner of 1959 Nobel Peace Prize. He was a politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - American satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer visiting London 1959 © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - American satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer visiting London 1959 © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - Soldier looking at the early morning train departures at Waterloo Station, London, 1959 © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - Civilian and military personnel waiting late at night for their trains, Waterloo Station, London 1959 © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - Playwright John Arden talking with actress Tamara Hinchco, London 1959 © Alan Vines

23-10-1959 - Playwright John Arden (c) talking with actors Tamara Hinchco and David Andrews, London 1959 © Alan Vines

08-10-1959 - General Election October 1959. Large crowd gathered around the statue of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London awaiting the results © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - General Election 1959. Results of the October General Election in Britain being conveyed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper to the public in a crowded Piccadilly Circus in central London © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - 1959 Daily Telegraph displaying General Election results to a crowded Piccadilly Circus, London © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - 1959 Daily Telegraph displaying General Election results to a crowded Piccadilly Circus, London © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - 1959 Daily Telegraph displaying General Election results to a crowded Piccadilly Circus, London © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - General Election October 1959. Large crowd gathered around the statue of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London awaiting the results © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - 1959 Daily Telegraph displaying General Election results to a crowded Piccadilly Circus, London © Romano Cagnoni

08-10-1959 - 1959 Daily Telegraph displaying General Election results to a crowded Piccadilly Circus, London © Romano Cagnoni

17-09-1959 - Girton College Cambridge 1959 Women science undergraduates setting off from Girton to cycle into the city © Kurt Hutton

17-09-1959 - Girton College Cambridge 1959 Women Physics student Catherine Hawarth and overseas student Gohar Ebrahinzadeh in a supervised revision session led by Dr Helen Megaw Fellow of Girton College and Direct... © Kurt Hutton

17-09-1959 - Girton College Cambridge 1959 Ann Carr a science student studying the arrangement of atoms in crystals in the Downing laboratory © Kurt Hutton

17-09-1959 - Newnham College Cambridge 1959 Women science undergraduates talking outside the Pfeiffer Building. Penelope Stearn studying Biochemistry (L) and Claire Martyn studying Botany(R) © Kurt Hutton

17-09-1959 - Girton College Cambridge 1959 Women Physics student Catherine Hawarth and overseas student Gohar Ebrahinzadeh in a supervised revision session led by Dr Helen Megaw Fellow of Girton College and Direct... © Kurt Hutton