REMEMBER the days when sex was forbidden and smoking was chic? Take a leap back in time to the 1950s with a trip to an extraordinary museum devoted to the era. Housed on a working farm in Denbigh, the 50s Museum is the result of one man's passionate quest to collect all things quirky from the decade. For over 30 years, 63-year-old owner Sparrow Harrison has amassed a treasure trove of 50s memorabilia. Step inside the kitchen and find every authentic appliance needed to be a proper 1950s housewife, including a sit-up-and-beg gas cooker, dolly tub and mangle. Peek inside the crammed cupboards at 50-year-old tins of food, jars of gravy and toilet rolls. In the lounge, there are armchair covers complete with built-in ashtrays, mammoth-sized televisions, radios and tape players with spools the size of saucers. Not to mention cigarette packets, pens, diaries and ration books. Walls are covered with original film posters, record sleeves and advertisements for sporting events and on the bookshelves is reading material considered risqué five decades ago, but tame by today's standards. In the garage stands the museum's collection of magnificent motors. This is no ordinary car lot and you can pretend you are Elvis while perching on the plush leather seats of a metallic jade Cadillac. | 
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