Public spirited cooperation.<br>If you stayed in a bed and breakfast in the 50's, you did not get a lightbulb. You had to pay a deposit on one or supply your own. There was still austerity, rationing, national scarcity and petty pilfering. <br><br>BTW the country went mad when sweets came off the ration in  about 1949. The country was ate dry in three months and they had to go back on rationing for the next few years.