1960s childhood
60s
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sixties
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suburban life
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- ISBN 9780750992398
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2019
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’, his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the ‘swinging’ sixties.
David J. Eveleigh has worked in the field of heritage conservation and museums for over forty years, having held senior positions at the Black Country Living Museum and the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust. His his books include seven titles for Shire and the highly acclaimed Bogs, Baths & Basins – the Story of Domestic Sanitation. He is a Fellow of the Museums Association, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Association of European Open Air Museums. He retains a deep affinity for where he grew up in Merseyside and is now moving back to the area. As the final sentence of this book reads, 'I never really escaped'.
