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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

‘From disco to dog-walking: 1970s everywoman on five decades of life changes’

Gaynor Evans at home near Swansea on the Welsh coast. She was in her thirties when interviewed by the Observer for its feature The Way We Live.
Gaynor Evans at home near Swansea on the Welsh coast. She was in her thirties when interviewed by the Observer for its feature The Way We Live. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Gaynor Evans spent the Easter of 1972 with her children, Mark, seven, and Joanna, four, and her husband Russell, a lecturer at Swansea University. The family lived in a modern detached four-bed home on the Mumbles coast, where she was pretty content with her lot.

She had, after all, just bought a second family car, and most of her spare cash, earned from her part-time job at a nearby hospital, went on fashionable new clothes. At that time, rather as now, velvet trouser suits were in vogue.

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