Hello, my name is Mrs. Casey.

What's your name? Great.

I'm so excited to join you for this history lesson today.

Today's lesson is called Photographs of Britain in the 1940s and '50s.

It's part of the history unit: Photographs From History: What Can They Tell Us About Britain's Recent Past? We're going to be looking at photographs that were taken in the 1940s and '50s, and looking for clues and finding out things about life in the 1940s and 1950s.

Shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll able to use photographs to describe some of the features of the 1940s and '50s Britain.

Here are today's keywords.

These are words that we will be using throughout the lesson.

Listen carefully while I read them to you.

Second World War, prefabricated, transport.

I wonder if you've heard of any of those words before.

Let's have a go at saying them together.

Are you ready? My turn.

Second World War.

You have a go.

Excellent.

Well done.

My turn.

Prefabricated.

Your turn.

Great work.

That's a tricky word.

My turn.

Transport.

Your turn.

Well done.

Let's find out what they mean.

Second World War.

The Second World War was a war between lots of countries around the world that took place between 1939 and 1945.

Prefabricated.

Prefabricated houses are built in a factory and then transported to the final location on a lorry.

Transport.

Transport is the method by which people or goods are moved from one place to another.

Look out for these words in our lesson today.

Today's lesson has three parts to it.

Photographs after the Second World War, Photographs of homes, and Photographs of streets and transport.

Let's start with Photographs after the Second World War.

The 1940s and 1950s is a time period in the past between 1940 and 1959, spanning 20 years.

The 1940s and 1950s was 70 to 80 years ago when your grandparents or even great-grandparents were probably children.

Here is a timeline showing us the 1940s and 1950s, when the Second World War happened, and today.

Can you spot each of those times on the timeline? Here is when Queen Victoria died, and when Queen Elizabeth became a queen.

Historians use photographs to learn about the past.

Photographs can show us what has changed and what has stayed the same.

It's fascinating.

Great listening so far.

Let's check what we've learned with this true or false.

The 1940s and 1950s was a time when your grandparents or great-grandparents were probably children.

True or false? What do you think? That's true.

Well done.

Is it true because, A: The 1940s and 1950s was 70 to 80 years ago, around the time Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne.

Or B: The 1940s and 1950s was over 100 years ago, around the time Queen Victoria took to the throne.

A or B? Excellent.

It's A: The 1940s and 1950s was 70 to 80 years ago, around the time Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.

The Second World War was a big war between many countries around the world.

It took place between 1939 and 1945, 6 years.

We sometimes write it down "WWII".

The Second World War lasted for six years, bombs were dropped on cities and towns.

Many homes and lives were destroyed.

The effects of the Second World War had a lasting impact on life in the 1940s and 1950s Britain.

Historians used photographs to learn about life during this time and also to compare life then to now.

Photographs can show us the effects of the bombs which reduced homes to rubble.

What can you see in this photograph taken after the Second World War? Destroyed homes, rubble, people looking at the effects of the bombs.

I wonder how they must have been feeling.

Let's check what we've learnt.

Can we match the words to their meanings? Rubble, bomb, destroyed.

Stones, bricks and wood from buildings that have fallen down, something that has been broken beyond repair, an object that explodes.

Pause the video and decide which word matches to which meaning.

Rubble is stones, brick and wood from buildings that have fallen down.

A bomb is an object that explodes.

Destroyed means something has been broken beyond repair.

Now it's time for our first task.

Tell a partner what you think historians learnt by looking at this photograph.

Here are some words to help you: bombs, destroyed, houses, rubble.

Well done, everyone.

Some excellent discussions.

Your answer might have included: Historians learnt that the bombs destroyed the houses.

They can see how much rubble was created.

Now it's time to move on to our second part of this lesson, Photographs of homes.

Historians can find out what people's homes were like during the 1940s and 1950s by looking at photographs.

After the Second World War, many homes had been destroyed, which left people with nowhere to live.

People needed a quick way to rebuild a large number of homes.

Building houses from brick and stone took a long time and was expensive.

So to solve this problem, prefabricated houses became available.

Prefabricated was one of our keywords, can you remember what it means? This is a photograph of a prefabricated house, built in the 1940s.

Prefabricated houses are all the same.

These houses are built in a factory to a plan and then transported to the location on the back of a truck or lorry.

Houses are built from steel frames and used sheets of steel for the roof and parts of the walls.

Steel is a type of metal.

They were a quick and cheap way to create the many houses that were needed.

These houses were also very modern.

Let's check what we've learnt.

Can we write the missing word? Prefabricated houses were easy and quick or slow to build? Which do you think is the missing word? Well done.

It's quick.

Prefabricated houses were easy and quick to build.

What can you see in this photograph of a 1950s advert for a kitchen? An oven and a hob.

A fridge.

Built in cupboards.

An electric kettle.

After the Second World War, people wanted the latest household inventions that made life easier.

Kitchen appliances such as electric kettles, fridges, and hobs to cook on, became available for the first time.

Dishwashers and washing machines were also becoming popular household items that people hadn't had before.

Photographs of a 1950s kitchen shows us what life was like then.

Nowadays, kitchens have changed again.

Some modern kitchens have cupboards with no handles.

Some have appliances like dishwashers and washing machines with cupboard doors on the front.

And air fryers have become a very popular small kitchen appliance.

What's your kitchen like? Look at the photographs of kitchens in the past and now.

What is different and what is the same? Let's check what we've learnt.

Which kitchen items did people use in the 1950s? A: electric kettle, B: an air fryer, C: A fridge.

They used electric kettles.

Well done.

Not air fryers.

Those are a very modern popular kitchen appliance.

Fridges became popular in the 1950s.

Well done.

Now it's time for our second task.

Can you label the photograph of a 1950s kitchen? There are some words to help you.

Electric kettle, fridge, cupboards, oven and hob.

Pause the video and have a go at Task B.

Well done, everyone.

Did you get the words right? An electric kettle, oven and hob, the fridge and the cupboards.

And now it's time for the third part of our lesson: Photographs of streets and transports.

We can use photographs to learn about how people travelled in the 1940s and the 1950s.

Let's take a look at some photographs now.

Which type of transport can you see in this photograph from the late 1940s? People walking, cars and trams. In the 1940s and 1950s, transport was developing as people began to travel more.

There were several different types of transport available, just like today.

Many people travelled around the cities and towns by bus.

The tram was also popular in cities such as London, Leicester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Cardiff.

A tram is a vehicle that carries passengers.

It travels along metal tracks in the road.

Trams were powered in different ways, from steam to electricity.

What types of transport can you see in this photograph from 1950? This is a photograph of London in the 1950s.

Cars, buses, and walking.

In the 1950s, the car was becoming a popular way to travel, and more families were able to afford a car.

In the 1950s, cars were smaller and not as comfortable as today's cars.

Most cars in the 1950s did not have seat belts.

Cars in the 1950s were fueled by petrol, and there were no electric cars like there are today.

Let's check what we've learned with this true or false.

Is it true or false? There were no cars in Britain in the 1940s and '50s.

What do you think? True or false? That one's false.

Is it false because, A: People travelled in cars, buses, and on trams in the 1940s and 1950s? Or is it true because people travelled on trams and horse and cart in the 1940s and 1950s? A or B? Well done.

It's A: People travelled in cars, buses, and on trams in the 1940s and 1950s.

Look at the photographs of Leeds square in the past and now.

What is different and what is the same? Pause the video and talk to the person next to you.

Leeds square is very similar to how it was in the past, although nowadays, there are no trams, and there's a lot more traffic and traffic lights.

Let's check what we've learnt.

Which of these types of transport was used in Leeds in the 1940s and '50s but is not used anymore? A car, a tram, or a bus? Which do you think? It's a tram.

Well done.

And now it's time for our third task.

Use these photographs to describe to your partner what Britain was like in the 1940s and '50s.

There's a photo of homes destroyed by World War II, a photograph of Leeds in the 1940s, a photograph of a kitchen in the 1950s and a photograph of a 1950s prefabricated house.

Use these words to help you: prefabricated, kitchens, destroyed, trams. Pause the video and have a go at the task.

Well done.

Some great discussions.

Your answer could have included: During the Second World War, many homes were destroyed so prefabricated houses were built.

In the 1950s, kitchens had electric kettles, hobs and built-in cupboards.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the transport people used included trams, buses, and cars.

Well done, everyone.

You have listened really carefully today.

Fantastic learning.

Let's summarise what we've learned from the Photographs of Britain in the 1940s and the 1950s.

Historians used photographs to find out about the past.

Photographs of bomb damage and prefabricated houses can tell us about the effects of the Second World War.

Photographs of new kitchens can tell us what homes were like in the 1940s and 1950s.

Photographs of the streets in Leeds and London can tell us about the types of transport people used in the 1940s and 1950s.

Great work today, everyone.

Well done.

Bye for now.