1940s apartment

This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…

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Source: Portfolio of Room Interiors by Armstrong Cork Co, 1946. Image from the Mid Century Home Style collection.

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Armstrong floor ad, 1946