Nostalgic photos in book When We Were Young show family life in Britain between the 40s and 70s

Picnics beside cars, rock pool investigations and a baby’s first sip of stout. New book When We Were Young records memories of growing up in Britain between the 1940s and 1970s, drawing on a collection of almost 800,000 colour slides from members of the public amassed by filmmaker Lee Shulman. Lucy Davies, writing in the introduction, adds: 'They are portraits without beholders, faces without names, stories with a thousand endings.’ Scroll down for a window into a Britain without smartphones and SUVs - and when drinking started very early indeed. This baby is being given a sip of the strong stuff, a sight that would shock today When We Were Young draws on a collection of almost 800,000 colour slides from members of the public amassed by filmmaker Lee Shulman Poignant: When We Were Young will be a trip down memory lane for many - and an eye-opener for millennials The great British day out would often involve braving the seas in unsuitable apparel This young girl shows off her impressive spoils from a rock pool to the camera Looking at the old photos in When We Were Young is akin to discovering an old relative's long-lost photo album, says publisher Hoxton Mini Press Back in the day, happiness was a picnic by the car up on a hill somewhere And she's off: A young girl begins the thrilling descent down a wooden slide in a garden Two young women tentatively paddle in water that doesn't look terribly inviting Back then, a swimming costume was all you needed for a bike ride. On the right, a young family poses for the camera as the neighbours' washing dries in the background This man is all smiles as he poses in an epic hole dug in a beach.