大象传媒 Radio Solent - Richard Cartridge, The Cartridge Years: 1962, 1977 and 1988

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The Cartridge Years: 1962, 1977 and 1988

Richard Cartridge

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

3 hours

Sun 28 Apr 2013 14:00

大象传媒 Radio Solent

Attempts to recover the 'Sand Dart' were continuing off Swanage. 聽 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.

Steam enthusiasts re-opened the former "Watercress Line" between Winchester & Alton.聽
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.

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.