Age Of Austerity?

Question 1

Leisure

Answer 1

Cripp’s

• attendance at football and cricket matches
• 1635 million cinema tickets
• 1/2 a Jon holiday at Butlins

1948 gov permits local authorities to raise money for public entertainment e.g. Drama and music

Question 2

Festival of Britain

Answer 2

Summer 1951 
Promote exports
British design and industry 
South Bank exhibition centrepiece 
More than 8 million attended SBE 

Special housing project: Lansbury estate
Window to future
Urban

Question 3

Standard of living

Answer 3

Working Class:
Improved due to full employment, increased welfare, low inflation and from 1948 increasing economic growth
1959 incomes up 9%

Middle Class:
Free grammar ed
Standard of living hit by lack of consumer goods, furniture, petrol and cars
Incomes down 7% between 1938-50

Rationing:
1948 gov used some of Marshall aid to ensure rations maintained at established level
Without aid would have been cut 33%
Nov 1948: Wilson abolished rationing of toys, cutlery, pens
April 1949: bread sweets chocolate not rationed