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The Cartridge Years: 1966, 1973 and 1983
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1966, 1973 and 1983.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from the July of 1966, 1973 and 1983.
He has the local headlines and hears your stories of the relevant years.
Plus tracks from his featured album of the week, The Eagle鈥檚 1976 album Hotel California.
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 21 Jul 2013
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
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July 1966
- The Queen Mary was a regular visitor in Southampton dock
- An SRN5 hovercraft capsized in the Solent
- The Government announced deflationary measures including a 6-12 month wage freeze.
- Pleasure Boat 'the Prince of Wales' sank in Cardigan Bay.
- A pleasure steamer was holed & sank in Bridlington.
- The Cavern Club was re opened in Liverpool.
- David Kelsall won the Round Britain yacht race on Toria.聽 聽聽
- Natural Gas arrived in Britain.
- Jack Brabham won the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.
- A plane crashed into Liverpool airport - the Cambrian Airways Viscount ran into the airport terminal building damaging the nose, starboard wing & two engines.
- A car ferry ran into the breakwater in Dover.
- British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flew to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War
- The World Cup was held in England. After Brazil was knocked out, their return flight home was cut short after their plane developed engine problems and was forced to land.
- Poland celebrated 1000 years as a nation.聽
- USA Geminin 10 splashed down in the Atlantic.聽
- An American car manufacturer trained all the workers in its spare parts department to do the job on roller skates. They claimed they could deliver spare parts four times faster than by the conventional method.聽
- Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow in Las Vegas.
- Ronald Reagan was the republican candidate for the Governorship of California.
July 1973
- There was a fire at the Marglass factory in Sherborne.
- Robert Fossett's circus was in Southampton.
- Isle of Wight water skier Jackie Dobson won bronze in the European Junior Water Skiing championships in Italy.
- Live and Let Die - the latest James Bond film was premiered at The Gaumont in Southampton.
- St Agatha's Church in Portsmouth was saved from demolition.
- The International Bowls championship was taking place in Bournemouth.
- The New Inn in Brighstone was renamed and reopened as The Three Bishops.
- Southampton carnival wound its way through the streets of the city.
- 24 men & 2 women appeared in court on charges relating to series of bank raids committed over a 4 year period to 1972.
- Printers in Fleet Street were in dispute.
- Home-made hovercraft from all over Britain took to the water in the national hovercraft championships in Kent.
- The Flying Scotsman was back in Britain after a visit to the United States.
- Birmingham City health committee called on the government to ban lead in petrol.
- A Helicopter being used to rescue a stranded parachutist crashed after it's blades because entangled in power cables.聽
- Prince Charles represented the Queen during the Bahama's independence celebrations.
- America was in the midst of The Watergate affair.聽
- Canadians were marking the centenary of the Mounties
- Fiat introduced robots in their Monte Cassino plant to take 'boredom out of some jobs'.
July 1983
- The owners of a houseboat in Weymouth were woken by their cats as it began to sink.
- It was the hottest day of the year... The south was experiencing it's longest period without rain since 1976
- The keel for America's Cup challenger 'Victory 83' was being re-designed in Hythe.
- Two people were seriously injured in an accident on the A31 near Ringwood.
- Mystery crop circles appeared at Cheesefoot Down, near Winchester.聽
- The Duke of Kent visited Chandler's Ford.
- Weymouth council decorated the town with hanging baskets - to keep the flowers out of reach of vandals.
- Linda Whitcher from Southampton gave birth to her third set of twins.
- Norman TEBBIT hoped that reforms can be brought about by agreement with the unions at the steel workers conference
- MPs voted 407 to 36 against the re-introduction of the death penalty for murder.
- Townsend Thoresen ferry crews were on strike.
- The 12th Orange Parade took place in Downpatrick.聽
- Princess Diana opened a new wing to a hospital in Northampton.
- A floating hotel was launched for workers in the Falklands.
- The European Court of Justice said we're not buying enough wine in the UK.
Broadcast
- Sun 21 Jul 2013 14:00大象传媒 Radio Solent