I have been watching the excitement build for Vintage at the Southbank Centre, which kicks off tomorrow for 3 days of what looks like fantastic fun. I am a self-confessed Festival of Britain nut, so to have the event at the Southbank Centre 60 years after the ground-breaking festival took place there is absolute genius.

Four days to go till Vintage at Goodwood, and today we celebrate that event with a magazine cover from the fifties. 1951 to be precise. The year of the Festival of Britain, and the advent of a nation determined to pull itself out of austerity and war. Picture Post was the ‘Life’ magazine of the

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