A carter
A person who delivered goods to shops and houses.

A docker
A person who brought goods ashore from the ships.

Communications
How people keep in touch with one another.

Corporation house
A house built by the local council.

Chaperone
A person, usually an older woman, who accompanied an unmarried girl when she went out.

Manual exchange
A telephone operator put a call through for you.

Marriage bar
Laws that stated that women had to resign from well paid jobs such as the civil service and banking when they got married.

Pawn shop
A shop that offers money in exchange for a valuable item.

Social change
A change in the way people live their everyday lives.

Suburb
A residential area built on the outskirts of a city or large town.

Suffrage
The right to vote.

Tenement
An old house that several families lived in.

The parlour
Today this room is called the sitting room.

Transport
The way people or goods are carried from one place to another.