A story about the 'double twist' in a hair salon where couples can dance and then have their hair cut together.
People rush to get Ideal Home Exhibition finished after strikes delay work.
Queen Elizabeth II at 42nd Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, London.
Ideal Home Exhibition shows houses based on Georgian, American and Canadian designs.
Latest labour-saving devices at Olympia's Ideal Home Exhibition.
A look at the preparations for and the final results of the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Ideal Homes exhibition in London's Olympia.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit the Ideal Homes exhibition at Olympia.
Great ideas and gadgets from the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P. and Budget maker, at home with his family.
People queue overnight to be able to put down a deposit on a new house.
A modern village which blends with the rural setting is built in Kent.
Wonderful footage of new town Stevenage - looks rather soulless from a modern perspective.
The latest home gadgets, decor and displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Miniature film sets and landscape gardens on display at Ideal Home Exhibition. London.
A look around the 1950 Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia.
City children take outing to Greenwich Park under Blackfriars Holiday Scheme. London.
A look at town planning for the future, and how things may be rebuilt after the war.
Harold MacMillan visits new homes built to solve the housing crisis.
New style council houses are built for people in London's Canning Town.
Theodore and Dorothy Fisher are building their own bungalow in Coulsden, Surrey.
Ideal home exhibition at London's Olympia.
Latest gadgets and interior designs at Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia.
Ideal Homes exhibition at Olympia & Tomorrow's Home exhibition in Harrods.
Ideal Homes Exhibition at London's Olympia.
Ideal Home Exhibition in Olympia filmed in Technicolor.
Homes of the future at the Ideal Home Exhibition. Olympia, London.
A look at the Ideal Home Exhibition 1956. Olympia, London.
Children at a primary school have a geography lesson on their playground atlas.
Story showing how modern the girl guides are in 1969 - adventure holiday and Gang Show footage.
Princess Margaret visits Ramsgate Hospital and sees 1000th house on housing estate.
Residents of Ingrave Housing Estate at Brentwood create their own bungalows.
An investigation into the Country's housing problem.
A large digger is used to move trees onto a housing estate in Jarrow.
Britannia aircraft crashes near Bristol.
Mr B.E. Pursall demonstrates his inflatable garage.
Lord Monk Bretton is at ceremony to mark the demolition of the site, Somers Town, London.
Romany caravan built by the disabled in training centre. Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Women in Essex campaign for lower food prices in their local shops.
Window cleaning in the sky scraper age has become a daredevil job.
Off-duty nurses have breakfast in bed and are allowed to wear make-up for work!
Fantastic film about new housing - slum dwellers are rehoused in nice suburban accommodation.
Housing scheme where people have to put down a deposit of £1 to move into their new home.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth take a tour around a London housing estate.
A builder designs and builds modern sculptures for the housing estates he has worked on.
Feminist flower arranger Mrs Elizabeth Hayes demonstrates her flower sculpture techniques.
A group of women make groovy textiles at the Hampstead Garden Suburbs Institute.
A road in Dartford is divided by a fence, on one side the houses are posher!
Footage of people sledging and having snowball fight. London.
Fabulous film showing domestic bliss achieved by installation of new gas appliances!
Nice item about Mr Smith who performs domestic chores in his house in Slough, Berkshire.
Woman tries out new hover lawn mower - the Flymo.
Construction of self-built houses at Dedworth near Windsor; we see inside a finished house.
Housewife who at weekends is a trial bike rider, Hounslow, London.
New design of fibre glass house is put on show in Middlesex.
Semi detached bay fronted possibly 1930s style suburban houses with garages.
Fantastic film about new housing - slum dwellers are rehoused in nice suburban accommodation.
Brilliant documentary showing how British Insulated Cables can electrify your home!