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The Cartridge Years: 1964, 1974 and 1984
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1964, 1974 and 1984.
Kick off your shoes, put your feet up and relax with Richard Cartridge, as he turns back the clock with three Cartridge Years.
This week he plays the big songs of the March of 1964, 1974 and 1984. He has the local headlines and your stories of the relevant years.
Plus tracks from his featured album of the week: This week ABC’s 1982 album The Lexicon Of Love.
And Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed. It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Last on
Sun 3 Mar 2013
14:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Solent
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March 1964
- Prime Minister: Alec Douglas-Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ (Conservative)
- The first hovercraft to be exported to the United States - the Vickers VA3 left the factory in Southampton.
- Southampton was still celebrating being granted city status.
- The new RAF's fighter TSR 2 was being transported to it's home base in Wiltshire - by road.
- The body of a small girl was found in Purfleet.
- Dr Beeching was carrying out a review of Britain's railways.
- A British Eagle airliner crashed in Innsbruck, killing 83 passengers.
- Talks broke down between the Electricty Council and the Unions. Β
- The Unions were demanding more pay, fewer hours & a third week's holiday - employers offered to start them on salary status grades next February, a week of 41 hours & a 2 1/2% increment against the 3.8% they already get.
- The Dave Clarke 5 left the UK for a tour of America.
- George Harrison was celebrating his 21st birthday.
- The bank interest rate rose from 4% to 5%.
- Β£10 bank notes were issued for the first time since the 2nd world war.
March 1974
- There was a fire as thousands of tyres were dumped at Colden Common.
- Southampton General Hospital was making final preparations for the opening of the brand new accident & emergency department.
- The cruise liner Brittanic was off Lands End, looking for storms. The unique cruise left Southampton two weeks earlier.
- The RNLI was celebrating it's 150th anniversary. Β The lifeboat station at Muddeford was one of those marking the anniversary by rededicating it's boat.
- A 14 stone dog, names Sarne was being looked after by a local butcher, after being abandoned in a Winchester restaurant.
- The country went to the polls, following the resignation of Edward Heath - triggering a general election.
- The British Gas Council were preparing to open further oil wells on Wytch Farm in the Purbecks.
- The Carpenters took their UK tour to Bournemouth.
- 19 year old Michelle Fisher was crowned Miss Southampton.
- The Royal Navy designed a new technique enabling divers to stay at underwater depths of 800ft for a week at a time.
- Rail workers were on strike.
- British Airways stewardesses were on strike.
- A Turkish DC-10 crashed at Paris airport.
- Palestinian terrorists hijacked a BA VC10 over Yugoslavia.
- "Nordic Clansman", largest oil tanker built in Britain was officially named in Glasgow.Β
March 1984
- The sea defences were breached on Portland, flooding parts of the village of Chiswell
- Police in Bournemouth were digging up a murder victim's garden after it was thought he had buried large sums of money & documents there.
- Almost 100 British Rail guards based at Portsmouth staged a 24 hour unofficial strikeΒ
- The 4th round F.A. Cup was a local derby between Portsmouth & Southampton.Β
- Plessey's of Christchurch won a Β£28M. contract to develop and construct a military communications system for Australia.Β
- QE2 was in dry dock in Hong Kong undergoing repairs.
- The Government decided not to change the way the Ordnance Survey is run at Southampton, it will remain non profit making.
- Olympic yachtsman Rodney Pattison was given a yacht by his home town of Poole so that he can enter the Olympics later in the year.
- A newspaper called 'The Dumont Express', published from a house in Fareham was distributed to members of the Dumont family throughout the World.
- Emergency repair began on the stone pier at Weymouth, using stone brought from Portland quarry.
- Laminators were on strike at ship builder Vosper Thorneycroft.
- The new leisure centre at Bitterne in Southampton was officially opened.
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs appeared on a first-day postage stamp cover.
- Pancake races wereΒ
- A Danish vessel tried to retrieve poisonous weedkiller lost from a Danish cargo ship in North Sea.
- 400 workers were protesting against the Henry Robb Shipyard's closure.
- In N Britain & parts of Wales & the W Country the melting snow caused floods.
- Plans were announced for a permanently manned space station
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- Sun 3 Mar 2013 14:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Solent