Peter Hunt and his brother Christopher outside the house as children and, right, Peter outside the property today
(Picture: ES)In 1951, London was a city just blinking its way out of the devastation wrought by the Second World War. Bomb-damaged buildings were a common sight and rationing was still in place.
But there were glimmerings of a brighter future, not least in the Festival of Britain — a showcase of British design and manufacturing focused on the new modernist South Bank.
