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The Cartridge Years: 1962, 1975 and 1985

Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: 1962, 1975 and 1985.

This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from the January of 1962, 1975 and 1985 and hears your stories of the relevant years.

Plus tracks from his featured album of the week, the 1970 Santana album Abraxas.

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.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 5 Jan 2014 14:00
麻豆社 Radio Solent

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January 1962

  • The Transvaal Castle made her maiden voyage from Southampton, with her seven hundred single class passengers.
  • Work started on a new building to house Smithfield market - four years after the old one was destroyed by fire.
  • Members of the actor's union Equity were on strike.
  • A parcel bomb was discovered in Hertfordshire.
  • A smallpox outbreak was reported in Yorkshire.
  • The Trident flew for the first time.
  • The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records.
  • Jimmy Hill married Christine Harding.

January 1975

  • A cross Solent hovercraft caught fire.
  • Security tightened at Manchester airport after domestic flight to London was hijacked at Heathrow.
  • A crane driver was killed when the cab of his giant crane plunged 80ft onto the deck of a ship below in South Wales.
  • Fire gutted a carriage of a football special train carrying Chelsea fans back from match against Luton.聽
  • Charlie Chaplin was knighted in New Years Honours.
  • 250 engine tuners at British Leyland's Cowley plant near Oxford voted narrowly to resume their strike... but production continued without them.聽
  • It was estimated that about 90 tankers worldwide are laid up as high oil costs have made them uneconomic to run.

January 1985

  • HMS Manchester was in Portsmouth.
  • Townsend Thorenson crews were on strike, affecting cross channel sailings from Portsmouth.
  • The Bishop of Winchester Dr. John Taylor retired.
  • The Savoy Cinema in Petersfield closed.
  • Dutch semi-submersible ship Dan Lifter arrived at Southampton docks to collect 2 high speed ferries bound for Hong Kong.
  • Southampton beat Leyton Orient FC in the 4th round of the F.A. Cup.
  • The 聽Portsmouth 'News' continued to be printed - despite a strike by 74 journalists over the introduction of new technology.
  • An inquest opened in Wareham into the death of 12 year old David Alergant, who was killed when an armoured car overturned at Bovington Camp in the previous November.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Jan 2014 14:00
    麻豆社 Radio Solent