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We had an outside toilet and I was born in 1968! Yes we were very poor but we didn't appreciate it at the time because everyone lived the same way. I was born and bred in Liverpool which like many cities has undergone such an astonishing regeneration in the last 30 years that when I go back now I hardly recognise the place. I admit Liverpool was pretty slummy when I was growing up, but looks fantastic now.
I'm from M/C and visited Liverpool often in 72 & 73. Oh, and in '65 when I had to see the Cavern as young nipper. It was similar to M/C in terms of housing with much of it being old (late 1800's/early 1900's) , crumbling, outside toilets, no central heat, coal fireplaces, rows houses with some missing or rows cut off due to German bombs flattening them in WWII. But, most working class folks lived this way.
Like you, I cannot believe how things looks now. The dock area is unrecognizable.
France was bombed, however Paris was not bombed to nearly the same extent as London. Whilst the French Economy might have been booming in the 1960's but then again industry was initially booming in Britain following the war as the country rebuilt. There was largely full employment back in the 1950's and 60's in Britain.
As for the most impressive post War economies, as I have already pointed out the German and Japanese economies saw most growth of any countries which suffered significant damage during WW2.
Germany and Japan had their debts wiped out. All factories were new as there were few left. They started with a great advantage. They had no large armies to maintain either.
I'm not sure about 1967, but Britain was crippled by economic and political turmoil throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s - power cuts were commonplace, Britain's post-industrial cities were crumbling, strikes were routine, even London was suffering from a massive population exodus and lack of investment. It was frequently dubbed the 'sick man' of Europe. It was never a poor country, at least, in relation to the vast majority of the world, but it was definitely in very bad shape economically.
The fact the UK was not in a bad economic state in those decades. Do not suck in right wing media propaganda. (I did economics )
Back then, lots of Brits settled in the US, Canada and Australia for better money
99% went to those places as they could buy a decent house and improve their quality of life at a stoke - a type of house which you had to be very well off in the UK to buy. The planning system in the UK favoured the large landowners, who are the richest people in the UK - they are non-productive and parasites. The country is owned by a few people. BTW, only 7.5% of the land in the UK is settled.
17 shillings is 85 pence! My dad once did security for the Rolling Stones just before they hit the really big time, he had to stop the girls from getting on the stage and by the end of the night his shirt was torn from his back.........he loved it! lol
After the shows they had to mop the floors and use disinfectant. 70% of the girls would wet themselves with excitement. The problem was massive Shea Stadium with the Beatles.
France was in big economic boom during the 1960's.
The French were embarrassed over WW2. Frenchmen fought Frenchmen. They were bitterly dived at the end of WW2. They passed laws to enable social cohesion and this was part key to their success. The British were still bitterly divided on class grounds, and still are.
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It was similar to M/C in terms of housing with much of it being old (late 1800's/early 1900's) , crumbling, outside toilets, no central heat, coal fireplaces, rows houses with some missing or rows cut off due to German bombs flattening them in WWII. But, most working class folks lived this way. 
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