Growing up in the 50's

As my uncle who will be playing the old man in my music video was born in the 50's, i done some research about what it was like growing up in England in the 1950's.
I found an article on the Express website and it gives an insight into being a child 60+ years ago.
Here are snip-its from the article i felt captured the imagination:

Written by Paul Feeney in 2009:

'Despite the difficulties of day-to-day living people had great pride in and loyalty to their country and seemed to share a common purpose in life. Families stayed together through the hard times and everybody knew their neighbours and had a sense of belonging. They would routinely leave their street door on the latch and hang a key on a piece of string behind the letterbox when they were out for their children to come and go as they pleased.

'You probably didn’t get your first black and white television set until the late ­Fifties. After all, only three million British households had one by 1954, with numbers increasing to almost 13million by 1964.'

'But it didn’t matter if you had no television because you could play in the streets without the fear of traffic or the obstruction of parked cars. Buses and bicycles were the most popular modes of transport. In 1950 there were just under two million cars in Britain, with only 14 per cent of households owning one. The most ­popular models in the Fifties included the Ford Prefect 100E and the Austin A35 saloon.'

'Many of us who grew up then have memories of houses that were draughty in winter with curtains hung behind the street door to reduce the flow of cold air and frost that formed overnight on the inside of bedroom windows.'

'Outside, the larger urban areas suffered with dense, yellowish smogs – known as pea-soupers – caused by fog combining with coalfire emissions. In 1952 a particularly thick smog shrouded London and caused the deaths of an estimated 12,000 people.'

'However, life was certainly not all doom and gloom. You grew up in a much safer environment than we can ever imagine these days. Children were able to enjoy the freedom of outdoor life. They played lots of rough-and-tumble games, got dirty and fell out of trees. The purple stains of iodine were always evident on the grazed knees of boys in short trousers.'

'There was no such thing as health and safety or children’s rights. We were taught discipline at home and at school and ­corporal punishment was freely administered for bad behaviour.'

'There was no mugging of old ladies and people felt that it was safe to walk the streets. There was very little vandalism and no graffiti. Telephone boxes were fully glazed and each contained a set of local telephone directories and a pay-box full of pennies.'

'Youngsters respected and feared people in authority such as policemen, teachers, and park keepers, knowing that they would get a clip around the ear if they were caught misbehaving. Home life was much different from today. Everyone seemed to have a gramophone, an upright piano and a valve radio in their front room and there were ticking clocks all around the house.'