Genealogy Forum UK

Hello and apologises for interrupting your forum.

My name is Mark Ferguson and I am a researcher working on a new BBC1 series looking at life in the 1950s. The programme will feature first hand interviews complimented with our rich archive from the era.

I am looking for people from all over the UK who were born in 1952, the babyboomers, to talk about their memories and experience throughout the 50s and 60s.

I am also trying to find some couples that were married in 1952, or started a family then, again to discuss their lives and how things have changed now. I'm especially keen to speak to people who were part of the war effort too.

If anyone is interested in having a chat I would love to hear from you and you can send me an email or a private message and include a phone number or email address and I will get in touch. As I said, the programme will be a hark back to the era and look at how life was. If we went ahead, we will travel to you, and record a short interview, keeping inconvenience to a minimum.

I hope to hear from some for you, this would be a lovely way to record some special memories.

Best regards,

Mark Ferguson
BBC Northern Ireland
mark.ferguson@bbc.co.uk

I don't understand why you choose 1952.
Are they baby boomers?
Surely more interesting would be people born around 1945-1948.Surely they would have more to say about the 50's and 60's.

Hi Rob, The programme is called the 1952 Show, its its a nostalgic look back to commemorate the Jubellie, hence the importance of the date. For other topics within the programme we are looking for contributors that formed part of a 50s Family, from various years.

Right gotcha!!
The old King died in 1952 heralding the new Elizabethen Age!! No flies on me still as sharp as a tack!!
Sounds good Mark101 i hope it's a success.

Yep my old man was flown back from korea so they would be in time for the coronation as i hope you don't forget, just like today mark, 60 years on and a lot of lads are still serving overseas

http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.u ... ource=2554

I love this picture, (hope the links works!!) Taken circa 1955 in a Rural Staffordshire Village, people still lived and dressed as they did in the 19th Century, for anyone researching the 1950's this picture is classic, totally authentic, they weren't dressed up for the day, this is how they lived their lives, nothing changed for that generation, time just stood still.

Linell.

I would have thought that most of our grandparents were dressed in the Edwardian fashions in early pictures but the attached is one of me and my great-grandmother taken around 1956. When she went out she would take off the cardigan and put on a waisted jacket and bonnet and look for all the world like those in linnell's picture.

SRD wrote:I would have thought that most of our grandparents were dressed in the Edwardian fashions in early pictures but the attached is one of me and my great-grandmother taken around 1956. When she went out she would take off the cardigan and put on a waisted jacket and bonnet and look for all the world like those in linnell's picture.

Ah - look at you - so sweet - lovely picture SRD

My Grandparents didn't dress like that in the 1950's or before, I have pictures of them in the 1930's wearing "normal" clothes, perhaps your Gt Nan was a lot older SRD.

Linell.

Here's my Aunty Ivy's wedding in 1952. I'm one of the little girls standing at the front - second one along from the left

linell wrote:My Grandparents didn't dress like that in the 1950's or before, I have pictures of them in the 1930's wearing "normal" clothes, perhaps your Gt Nan was a lot older SRD.

Linell.

My grandfather was born in 1898, still Victorian times, and, depending on your definition of Edwardian, (just to 1910 or up to the end of WWI, it's a moot point) grew up in Edwardian times so his mother (the one in the photo) b 1867, was very definitely Victorian going on Edwardian. She definitely wore that style of clothes when I knew her (from my birth to 1966 when she died) but there are very few photos from before my birth and none that can be definitely identified as her.
My tree on BCC.

But there is this one, taken around 1926, of my father (the baby), his mother, Grandmother and gt Grandmother. (note the different styles worn by the succeeding generations.

My parents married in 1952. Sadly my Father's Father died the month before, so it had to be a subdued affair. My Grandmother was born in 1885 and became a dressmaker, she always dressed in the fashion of the time, although obviously suitable for her age. Yet I remember, we would often meet my Uncle's Mother in Law, Mrs Morton, while shopping in Blackheath, she must have been the same age as my Grandma, yet she was stuck in the clothes of the early Edwardian era. As a small child she scared the @@@@ out of me. At best she was a witch. She dressed exactly like the character of Grandma in Giles's cartoons. Only difference was, Mrs Morton was as thin as a rake. I think she was too mean to ever enjoy food.