2019-06-01 Homes and Gardens

1930 s

InthezeItgeIst

Growth of suburbia. Where will it end?

headlInenews

KingEdwardVIIIabdicates

(sitting on a Parker Knoll chair).

lIfestylemoment
THENATIONALTRUSTThe
organisation’sCountryHousesScheme
of 1937 allowedownerstodonatetheir
properties to the Trust and still to live in

them.Cuedecadesofhouse-snooping

and cream teas in the orangerie.

householdessentIal

THERADIOBytheearlyThirties,half

ofUKhouseholdshada radioas

theirprimarysourceofnewsand

entertainment.TheBBClaunchedthe

EmpireService(nowtheWorldService)

inDecember1932.Thefirstroyal

Christmasmessage,deliveredbyKing

George V, was one of the first broadcasts.

whoknew?

HOROSCOPESPrincessMargaret’s

birthin 1930 inspiredthenewspaper

horoscope.Thepopularityofthe

SundayExpress’ readingforthenew

princessledtoa weeklycolumnmaking

predictionsforallofitsreaders.

‘The stars’ were born.

hoth>oPIC

Whichstyletoembrace– Jacobean

Revival or European Modernisme? PhotograPhs

ALAMY; ti-MediAcontent.coM; (StooL) @RAuno tRASkeLin

averagehouse

PrICe:£450

(equivalentto

£25,785 today)

100

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