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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.
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Sun 28 Apr 2013
14:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Solent
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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.
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- Sun 28 Apr 2013 14:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Solent