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Article: Formica, fish fingers and how Britain turned into a nation of shopaholics; A vanished Britain.(Features; Femail)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: by David Kynaston
THE SLUMP in demand for allotments was distressing to an official of the Allotment Association in 1956. 'For the first time in years, there is no queue for plots,' he declared. 'A few years ago, they were all taken up, now members are giving up.' It was a disaster for the Allotments Association, but a sign of better times for everyone else -- no more rationing, plenty of food in the shops and people with money to spend.
And it wasn't only vegetables they were buying. Britain was becoming a fully fledged consumerist society.
In the vanguard was 'the teenage consumer', as he or she would soon be called. School leavers ...