Hovis Days
I enjoyed reading the attachment - good staff, but it did remind me of a Mel Smith sketch many years ago on 'Not the Nine O'clock News'. He was a Tory politician talking to the camera, along the lines of:
'An old lady stopped me on the street the other day and said 'Why, oh why, can't things be like they used to be?'
So I took away her pension book and sent her grandson up a chimney!'
Life in the past wasn't always quite so rosy - for many it was a grinding life of stultifying social conventions.