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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
Lydia Patrick

Meet the Nottingham woman who looks like she's walked straight out of the 1940s

Meet the Nottingham woman who looks like she's walked straight out the 1940s - with a vintage home where she cooks wartime food and has a strictly vinyl music collection. Hannah Hall, who prefers not to share her age, developed an affinity with the 1940s after watching wartime films with her late grandfather, Henry, as a little girl.

She became obsessed with Hollywood starlets such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis and wanted to dress like them. Hannah was raised by her single mum - she said they didn’t have a lot of money so bought everything from charity shops. She continues to only buy second-hand today.

After renting their whole lives, Hannah had enough of the uncertainty of the rental market and put a deposit down on a 1920s house with her mum in 2016. They now live in a "vintage kingdom" - kitted out with a 1940s cooker and an eclectic mix of old world furnishings from the Victorian era up to the 1960s.

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