LIFE in Colne in the 1950s and 60s is one of the subjects for a new TV documentary of unseen colour footage from the era.

The 50s and 60s in Living Colour is a three-part series being shown on ITV today, tomorrow and Wednesday, created by the makers of Some Like it Hot, the popular social history programme about the British on holiday.

The second episode, called Home Sweet Home, will feature 74-year-old Eileen Cook, of Portland Street, Colne, talking about what life was like for people in the area.

The show focuses on the shift in home lives during the 20-year period, when more people than ever before became homeowners and women's lives shifted from being home-based to the workplace.

Some of Eileen's pictures of Colne in days gone by were used by the programme-makers.

Eileen, who has lived at her present address for 52 years and has two grown-up children, said: "I have seen the area change a lot over the years.

"It's interesting for me to be looking back and seeing pictures from that time.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the programme go out on television and hopefully it will bring back memories about how things used to be.

"I just talked about how life was and how people managed to get by. There was still rationing and we had to make do and mend with what we had.

"Monday was washday, Tuesday was ironing, Wednesday was shopping, Thursday was cleaning the house.

"Every day you donkey stoned your own front doorstep. If you didn't you were looked down on.

"It was a very different lifestyle.

"I was only young but it was a challenging way to live because if you wanted to do things you had to make an effort, like with mending clothes."