Web Sites for
Modern Britain – Domestic Life
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http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/war/changessince.htm
Click on the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 80s and 90s for information about homelife
http://www.derbygripe.co.uk/1930s.htm
Wash day and chores children had to do at home
http://www.mylearning.org/playback-video.asp?resourceid=1307&journeyid=317
Original 1950s video clip of family life
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081101152552AAZFiO4
Short article explaining what it was like to grow up in 1960s
http://www.childofthe1980s.com/
Information about TV programmes, toys and food
http://www.downthelane.net/growing-up-50s-60s/1950s-house.php
Click on information tabs down the left hand side to find out about specifc subjects 1950s and 1960s
http://www.developyourchild.co.uk/growing-up-in-the-60s-and-70s.php
Article about life as a child in the 1960s/70s
http://terryphillips.org.uk/rant/?p=13
Blog from a man growing up in the 1950s discussing the freedom children had
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6707451.stm
Memories of growing up in 1960s
http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/candle.html
Look at all of the different types of clocks (animations)
www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/kids/summer_activities/make_sundial.shtml
Instructions for making the sundial
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http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science-channel/29238-what-the-ancients-knewegyptian-sundials-video.htm
Short video clip looking at how Egyptians used sundials
http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-egypt/ancient-civilizations-usesundials.htm
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/sun/san5.html
Tutorial on reading sundials
Useful Websites for researching bikes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle
www.childofthe1980s.com/2008/02/15/bmx-bikes/
1980s bikes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_3401000/3401153.stm
1970s bikes
http://www.raleigh.co.uk/Company/History/
Brief history from the different periods
http://johnsvintagebikes.com/
Bikes from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Chopper
Chopper bikes from the 70s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Grifter
Raleigh Grifter bike of the 1980s
http://sixtiesbritain.co.uk/lifestyle/2010/04/17/lifestyle-cycling-through-the-60s/
Cycling in the 1960s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC_234pgSx8
Brief advert for 1950s bike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piTYPLI3toc
Slideshow of 1950s bikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zk-zBN5WQ&NR=1
Slideshow of bikes from the 1960s
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Steam Engines
http://www.railwaybritain.co.uk/railway%20poems.html
http://kingpoetry.com/steamtrain.htm
Selection of poems about steam trains
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/steamengines.html
Short animation showing how a steam engine works
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A15849868
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/march/27/newsid_433
9000/4339761.stm
BBC reports about steam engines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2008/12/0
8/tornado_steam_train_feature.shtml
Report on the newest steam engine – The Tornado
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/enginesequipment/steam1.htm,
http://www.haworthvillage.org.uk/steamtrains/locomotive_works/steam-boiler.asp
and
http://www.animatedengines.com/locomotive.shtml
How steam engines work
http://www.ngflcymru.org.uk/vtc/pneumatic_pumps/eng/resources/act1.html
Pneumatic pump investigation
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Map work - Roads
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/key/50K_English_Legend_March08.pdf
Ordnance survey key showing different roads
http://www.rac.co.uk/route-planner/
RAC route planner
Planes
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/new/businessclass
/index.jsp
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/cwonboard/public/en_us
Websites showing business class cabins
Other Public Transport
http://www.lrta.info/tramforward/Topic4TFs.pdf
Report on the benefits of trams
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