Thats it Richard, in the more countrified areas nothing much changed from the 40's to the 60's, in cities gaps where shops had been blitzed were still there and bomb damaged areas were the kids playgrounds . To have a car was unusual , my dear dad was a commercial traveller ( sale rep ) selling industrial diamond tools ,very much state of the art back in the mid 50's ,had a morris Isis later an oxford , His area was all over the north of england and He had an hell of a job getting firms to pay for good machine tools .Rolls royce were the exception plus some other firms in Miles platting making turbines doesn't that sound familiar ? We used to go on holiday from Manchester to Ramsgate in kent every year the trip was very much as described prev to Cornwall , leave at 3 am drive through the night and get to Ramsgate late afternoon next day ,best road i can remember was the Thanet way lovely and stright apple orchards by its side with sighs saying help yourself but don't damage the trees, things in Ramsgate that were the same as before the war when my Dads family came there . my favorite ,RAF Manston ,massive site used by the AAAF and Silvercity airways ,taking cars to France at the back near the eastcliff the old lane running from airfield to Ramsgate on which were sited the ( very rare early ) Spit and Hurricane marking its WW2 heritage which I insisted on seeing each yr they were still there in 1966 my last trip down there ,1st on a Bsa A10 plunger, i'd followed Dad in there camper van for our last family holiday together. The trip hadn't changed much still no motorways ,it rained most of the way, ran into a flood in stone and was pulled out by the firebrigade , dried the mag out ,used some new fangled stuff WD40 to blow out the carb whilst Dad was making a few bob drying out cars , then onwards we got to Ramsgate aafter 14 hrs ,bloody knackered but next day the sun shone and all was right with the world for 13 days ,better run back ,no rain but roads still generally bloody useless