This title might surprise you, but we are going back to Caroline Street to the house of Arthur Page.

No, I don’t want to build an interior into the existing diorama. I needed just the interior for the illustration of my story. In his excellent book “Cottage Modelling for Pendon” Chris Pilton is a good chapter about when you should build an interior. The most important is the room of the interior will be visible for the viewer and mostly the room in which the interior is made has lighting attached.
I have done is, although with indirect lightning for my shops on Station Road. See the picture of Walden Books below:

The interior that I have created now is a small diorama on itself. It contains a front room and a kitchen.

In some background information I found was stated that:
“Many people used their front room just for special occasions and it was kept tidy for this purpose. Many were hardly ever used because of this.”
In my case Arthur Page is used this room for listening to the radio and reading a newspaper or book.

The kitchen was the centre of the family live, because it was the warmest room in the house with heat from the range.

Lucy Page is making the lunch. I was gladly surprised when I saw that Dart Castings had added in the Monty figures range a housewife figure.

Used textures.

For the building of the diorama I used textures from:

• Scalescenes : kitchen wall and the kitchen floor
• Modelrailwayscenery: wall paper in the front room and wooden floor.
• Finescale buildings: kitchen range and furniture in the front room and kitchen.
• Internet: dollhouse free available resized textures (photo’s) and other textures/pictures I resized personally, for instance the radio in the front room.
  

Question:
For my story and the building of my next diorama (when I have finished Oval Road) I am looking for pictures of backyards / gardens with washing lines with wash from the (late) 1950’s. Monday was in the 1950’s washing day. If anyone can help me with this, I would be very thankful.

Kind regards,
Job