Coronation 1953. The white haired lady is my grandmother who lived in Berkeley Street, Eastville, Bristol. Notice the crossover aprons. They were very common though hardly attractive. And the ages of these women is quite surprising. I think my grandmother was only about seventy at the time. Most of the other women were younger, including the one with a baby. Some had no teeth. They were married but didn’t need to try, did they? Times have indeed changed. I wonder what they would have thought of us today; of botox, breast enhancement and trying to hold onto our youth? A different world indeed.