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The Cartridge years: 1969, 1979 and 1990
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: 1969, 1979 and 1990.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from the November of 1969, 1979 and 1990 and hears your stories of the relevant years.
Plus tracks from his featured album of the week, the 1971 album by T.Rex 鈥� Electric Warrior.
And Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed and looks ahead to the news for Monday.
It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Last on
Sun 10 Nov 2013
14:00
麻豆社 Radio Solent
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November 1969
- The R J Mitchell Spitfire museum was opened in Southampton.
- Ted Bates was Saints manager.
- The BH 7 Hovercraft was being trialled.
- Saints played Portuguese side Vitor Guimares in the Fairs Cup.
- Ronald Biggs was on the run in Australia.
- There were bomb attacks on buildings in New York, including the General Motors block.
- The crew of Apollo 12 were preparing to land on the moon. Charles 'Pete' Conrad Jr, Richard Gordon Jr and Alan Bean left earth on November 14th.
- A VC-10 airliner of Nigerian Airways crashed on a flight from London to Lagos, killing all 87 on board.
- Teachers were out on strike in their biggest pay protest yet. They are asking for a pay rise of 拢135.
- The Home Secretary announced new measures against football hooliganism. They included a code of behaviour for clubs, stewards to travel on football specials and close control over the issue of tickets.
- Carry on Jungle Boy was being filmed at Pinewood with Sid James, Frankie Howerd, Joan Sims, Jackie Piper, Bernard Bresslaw, Terry Scott and Charles Hawtrey.
- The RAC Rally came to a finish and out of the 151 cars that set out round Britain in the rally only 69 crossed the finish line near London Airport.
- Plans were put forward for London's third airport to be built on the Thames Estuary.
- The Ministry of Defence topped the sale of retired army horses for slaughter.
- Duke of Edinburgh criticised Tom Jones TV show.
- Joseph Kennedy died at the age of 81 in Massachusetts.
- Students rioted at Tokyo airport.
- There was a rabies outbreak in Folkestone.
- Prince Charles celebrated his 21st birthday with a party at Buckingham Palace.聽
November 1979
- A memorial service was held for Lord Mountbatten.
- Southampton County Council vote unanimously in favour of legalising prostitution.
- Local government unions marched to Hampshire County Council headquarters in Winchester to oppose cuts.
- Southampton based ice-skater finished 3rd in the British Championships.
- Portsmouth Dockyard's plans for survival were met with anger by some of the 40,000 people who work at the docks.聽
- The Sandford Pottery Chimney in Wareham in Dorset was demolished.
- There was a search underway for oil in Kimmeridge in Dorset.
- The government was criticised for spending 拢650,000 on restoring the Old Ship & Castle in Portsmouth.
- Dr Barnes-Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb died.
- Prince Charles visited troops in Belfast.
- The government were strongly in favour of NATO basing missiles in Europe.
- The US Embassy in Iran was under siege from students who had taken hostages.
- The Sunday Times went back on sale after nearly a year's absence due to industrial disputes.
- A quarter of the British Leyland workforce stayed away from work in protest at sackings.
- The appeal to raise money to send athletes to the 1980 Moscow Olympics was launched.
- Anthony Blunt, who spied for the USSR, was traced to a flat in London.
- Police released 3 letters the Yorkshire Ripper wrote about his killings.
- A phone engineer who saved for 2 and a half years, flew to New York and back on Concorde, spending just 2 hours in New York.
- The Lombard Rally started.
- Wayne Sleep appeared in the ballet Adam's Rib.
- Miss Burmuda won Miss World.
- British scientists make progress towards finding the first vaccine against the leprosy.
- The Cambridge Footlights containing Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson perform 'Friday Night... Saturday Morning'.
- Union representatives rejected Ford's offer of a 16% pay rise.
- After weeks of negotiations the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia accepted the UK governments proposals for a free election.
November 1990
- There were attempts to save Britain's rarest breed of cattle from extinction on the Isle of Wight.
- Patients had to evacuate part of Whitecroft Psychiatric Hospital on the Isle of Wight after a fire in a first floor bedroom.
- Three teenagers were killed in a car crash in Winchester.
- The Thomas Hardy restaurant was opened in Bournemouth. 聽
- Workers walked through the channel tunnel for the first time.
- Ann Widdecombe was appointed as Junior Minister at the department of Social Security.聽
- Drink drivers who cause death could face up to five years in prison under new government measures.
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- Sun 10 Nov 2013 14:00麻豆社 Radio Solent