![]() ![]() The story of how Swansea played its own part in the big news of the era – the Coronation, the Atom Bomb, Rock Around the Clock, the Korean War, Sputnik, the Suez Crisis and television, – and how it managed its own triumphs and disasters. The future was so bright…Swansea in the 1950s follows the development of Swansea through this momentous decade. Geoff Brookes spent his professional life as a teacher in Leicester and in two Swansea Comprehensive schools. And is it really true? Had we 'never had it so good', as Prime Minister Macmillan said?This book is the story of Swansea in those years, when post-war austerity moved towards the indulgence of the sixties.Ī period of affluence and full employment, a time of increased confidence and optimism.Ī time when Swansea began to rebuild itself after terrible wartime devastation and looked to a bright future, despite an exhausted valley where the trains crept slowly between the twisted slag heaps alongside a poisoned river.Įverything would soon be so much better. When those born in the nineteenth century met their grandchildren who would live in the twenty-first.Ī pivotal moment, certainly. ![]()
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