1955, Colston Street, Bristol

Whit Monday 1955, Colston Street, Bristol

Long queues form at the Colston Street bus stands - It's Whit Monday 30th May, 1955 and the dark days of the blitz is over - everyone is in a holiday mood. And while the girls in their teens and 20s are out in their flowered summer dresses, the older ladies are playing safe and sticking with their more sensible coats. A day’s outing to Clevedon or Weston-Super-Mare, or perhaps to Bath, was a popular choice on the rare bank holidays when office workers could cover their typewriters and shop assistants hang up their overalls and let their hair down.