One of the differences between sixty years ago and flow is that of speech and dialect. I do not think that the authentic Cotswold dialect was used in Hillesley. The long 'A' such as Leighterton people used, those people who worked 'aal day and aal night' was not used under the hill.
Thee' and 'thou' were in common usage although school teachers and many parents frowned upon the habit. If any adventurous Hillesley citizen had told us that he was going to the moon, we should have said, ''Thee bissn't, bist!'' or if we had wished to advise someone against a particular course of action we would have said, "Dussn't thee" or "D'wun't thee do't". Had we asked the question 'Are you going there?" or 'Are YOU doing this?' we would have said "Bissn't thee?"
The habit of swearing has changed very much too. There were expletives which were permitted in polite society, for instance, you could say "Bagger yer beck!" and get away with it. I think this was a corruption of 'begger', a term you could use as casual slang. Few people, and only the rural outsiders ever said 'bugger'.
You could say 'Good lor', but add the final 'd' and you were in trouble. 'Gosh' was not nice but not very bad; 'deuce' in what the deuce' was very much borderline. It was the equivalent, we were told, of saying 'what the devil!' I think the use of 'bloody' came back with the soldiers from France. A looser habit of speech was one of the changes not for the better, but the more general habit of speech which is intelligible and does not mark the villager as a back-woodsman is probably a good development.