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Work, play, watch and listen, cook and clean, keep warm and celebrate. How did you and your family used to do things? Historypin has teamed up with npower and Mirrorpix to build up a picture of how energy has transformed our lives and powered our world into the 21st century. Add your own memories, photos, audios and videos.
Curled up by the hearth with the dog, terrible Christmas jumpers, bedtime stories, coal fires, agas, cocoa and bed warmers galore! See more
Classic console games and arcade machines. Pinball, Space Invaders and Pac-Man plus all the other games we used to play. See more
Dirty dishes in the days before dishwashers, cooking up a feast with all the family, arduous chores and the legends that did them. See more
Dancing, decorations, parties! The bright lights of Christmas, bonfires and fireworks, wedding snaps with dodgy dos and birthdays from our youth. See more
Bigger and boxier! Enormous tellies, impressive vinyl collections, the original home videos and technological classics. See more
Featured photos shared by Mirrorpix, Dawn Parsonage, The Benevolent Society, Science and Society Picture Library, Reading Post and npower archive.
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