Just about - seeing a few "Teddy Boys". (So my Mum said they were, though I was too young to understand!)
In that same era: seeing the Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men, and Andy Pandy
, puppet shows for young children, on a friend's television-set..... while....
...... Our family not having a telvision, Listen With Mother on the wireless. It was some decades before I learnt firstly the theme-tune was from Gabriel Faure's Dolly Suite, and later that the "Dolly" here was the pet-name of a real woman in the composer's life.
Advance a few years....
- Also on the wireless: the Today current-affairs programme (presented by Jack de Manio), Down Your Way (an engaging round-Britain travelogue), The Archers (still running and now the world's oldest drama serial). Also Dad's Saturday-evening ritual of comparing his "Littlewoods" football-betting coupons with the results read in a special programme whose litany was nearly as poetic as The Shipping Forecast.
The introduction of ball-point pens, the original Biro indeed, by its make. That when I was in Primary School where our despairing teacher told us they would spoil our hand-writing he was trying to teach us, and called them "pig's grease". I was perfectly capable of spoiling my own hand-writing, irrespective of writing-instrument.
Using logarithms and the related slide-rule as multiplication and power calculation tools - before electronc calculators arrived in my last years or so at school. I still can use them.
Steam locomotives in regular use on the railways. (This ended in 1968.)
The Beatles bursting onto the pop-music scene and becoming the world's most famous and original pop band. They even played their own instruments - a band, not merely a singing troupe miming to synthetic back-tracks.
It being common for adults and children alike, to make or repair things like clothes, furniture, cycles and toys.
The introduction of the Transistor Radio. The previous portable wireless receivers used valves and bulky batteries.
The first "Computer Games" - bouncing a virtual ball around the TV screen, which acted as the display for the game unit itself, plugged into the aeriel socket.
