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The Cartridge Years: 1962, 1977 and 1988

Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1962, 1977 and 1988.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 28 Apr 2013 14:00

April 1962

  • Attempts to recover the 'Sand Dart' were continuing off Swanage. Β  The coaster has run aground in March.
  • Racing driver Stirling Moss was in hospital after a crash at Goodwood.
  • Sarah Churchill - Winston's daughter married Lord Audley.
  • Leaders of Britain's three million engineering and shipbuilding workers were in talks with their employers, in an effort to break the deadlock over their pay claim.
  • Survivors of the Calvary Regiments of the two World Wars marched past the statue of St George in London, in their annual Calvalry Memorial parade.
  • For the first time ever, a man flew over half a mile under his own power. He was John Wimpenny, chairman of Hatfield Man-powered Aircraft Club.
  • Prince Charles started at his new school, Gordonstoun.
  • Following a NATO summit in Athens, America promised to commit all her Atlantic Polaris submarines to NATO.
  • The X-15 rocket plane broke the altitude record - flying at a height of 50 miles, the pilots officially became astronauts.
  • In separate events, the first British satellite - and Saturn Two the world's biggest rocket were launched from Cape Canaveral.
  • French rail workers were on strike.

April 1977

  • Steam enthusiasts re-opened the former "Watercress Line" between Winchester & Alton.Β 
  • Verderers in the new forest were celebrating 100 years of the Verderers Court in Lyndhurst.
  • A vicar in Weymouth enrolled on a dressmaking course.
  • The Portsmouth News celebrated it's centenary.
  • Baliffs were turned away from a Portsmouth street when they tried to post compulsory purchase orders. Houses on Carlisle Road and Abingdon Road were due to be demolished for a new road.
  • Lord Mountbatten opened an exhibition at the Royal Naval museum in Portsmouth, telling the history of the Victorian era in swords and medals.
  • 1000 workers were laid off from the Ford plant in Swaythling.
  • Nearly a thousand policemen's wives marched to Trafalgar Square in a demo for higher police pay.
  • Electricians were on strike at Port Talbot steelworks.
  • BA maintenance crews were on strike.
  • British Rail announced it was to run a special Silver Jubilee Express from London to Edinburgh.
  • Texan disaster team led by Red Adair finally manage to stop blow out on the Ekofist Bravo oil rig after 8 days.
  • Three members of the Baader Meinhof terrorist gang were on trial in Germany.

April 1988

  • Winchester city centre was given a facelift by local school children.
  • A badger was recovering after falling over a cliff in Dorset.
  • Britain's newest passenger airline arrived in Southampton.
  • A Queen's Award to Industry was given to Forester Saw Mill Company.
  • A petition opposing a planned power station, was handed in to the New Forest District Council.
  • Port Solent marina was nearing completion.
  • Work to repair the landslip at Weymouth's Nothe Gardens started.
  • Weymouth's ancient stone pier at Weymouth re-opened.
  • HMS Bicester & HMS Brecon - Royal Navy minesweepers returned to Portsmouth after eight months on patrol in the Gulf war zone.
  • Naming ceremonies were held in Southampton for two new ferries. Barclays Bank & London Docklands were the first of a new class of fast catamaran ferries capable of speeds up to 30mph.
  • Councillors in Portsmouth are trying to find a new buyer for the City's bus company.
  • The Turin Shroud was being taken to various laboratries to be tested & aged.
  • P&O dockers were on strike in Dover.
  • Airlines started introducing bans on smoking in aircraft.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Apr 2013 14:00