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1975 |
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EDITORIAL WORK IN PROGESS 
This was before the days of computers, mobile phones, CDs and DVDs, but many homes got their first colour television to watch the first rocket go to the moon.
Instead of heating houses by burning dirty coal, people converted to central heating. We still bought music on vinyl records, but now cassettes could record as well as play. Microwave ovens, video recorder, felt tip pens... |
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| Industry in decline It was thirty years since winning the war but losing its great empire, and Britain was in a mess. Inflation pushed pay down. Workers protested by going on strike. Then factories, shipyards, steel mills and coal mines started closing down, and many people lost their jobs. There were some new jobs to replace them, but they were often in offices or shops, and mostly in the South of England. 1969 - America wins the 'space race' to put a man on the moon, as Neil Armstrong takes 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' 1971 - Britain's complicated old system of money, of shillings and pennies, is replaced by 'decimal' new pence, where 100pence = 1 pound (in 1971). 1973 - Britain joins the European Common Market (which later became the EU). |
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Air travel became affordable for many. New food and goods arrived from other countries as travelling around the world became easy. New inventions (1950-1975) - Early computers, Supermarket | ||
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