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Born in '49 near London. Can vaguely still remember the end of rationing, eg virtually no new furniture for sale, so my parents bought genuine antique stuff, or the utility wardrobes from solid oak that were available from new and are still in use today.
Cars were very expensive and hard to get( most were exported to help repay the US for the lease-lend ), my dad drove pre-war cars until about '58. Petrol rationing came in again in '56 during the Suez crisis. Flew to Munich in '56, saw the ruined buildings and felt good about that, my grandfather was busy getting war restitution out of the German Government for as many of their victims as he could, and unknown to little me at the time, my dad was sniffing out Nazis(as he had done in Berlin just after the war in Europe finished).
Saw my first TV in '53 at my aunt's house, all the neighbours were gathered in her front room watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. We didn't get a TV until '56, and the screen was smaller than that of a netbook I think, but the polished wood cabinet was pretty impressive.
By about 1960, my dad's garage was tuning Ford Zephyrs and Austin Healeys for rallying use, and he used to test drive them on the A1 road with me as a passenger whenever I could be there,for accelaration and flat out top speed( the big Healeys were indicating 130 mph, but by todays standards they took an age to get there.) There were of course no speed limits on highways in Britain until 1967, and speed cameras hadn't even entered the realms of science fiction yet.