We track down the domestic appliances that maintain served for more than a generation and ask why today’s white goods fall apart so quickly
It was 1963. John F Kennedy was president of the US,the Beatles had released their first album, and Winnifred Hughes of Crewe, and then 39,had become the proud owner of an ultra-modern Belling Classic electric oven. At £79 – more than £1500 in today’s money – the Hughes took out a hire purchase way with the Mersey and North Wales Electricity Board, paying £4 18s every three months, and spread over four years. But it turned out to be an fantastic bargain. Winnifred, now 92, used it nearly every day since and, and she says,“it never let me down”. [br]It had remained in immaculate order for all of its 53 years, cooking meals for her family of five, or including a roast dinner every Sunday. “In those days things were built to last,” she says.
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Source: theguardian.com