|
 1960 - 1969
Nearly back to the beginning - less than a decade to go - and we’ve hit the swinging sixties. I don’t know whether the sixties really got swinging in Great Yarmouth, but they must at least have swayed a bit. The mods and rockers managed to find the Great Yarmouth sea front so something must have happened.
Flower power brought peace and love (which was free apparently - not sure how much it cost before that), the Americans landed on the moon and The Beatles landed in America (or was it the other way round?), women’s legs were invented and the mini skirt arrived.
Women’s Liberation took off and and the night skies of Yarmouth were lit up by burning bras (I lied about that bit - I don’t think burning bras were likely unless Palmers’ lingerie department caught fire).
A world cup win for England brightened the middle of the decade and we experienced pop art, psychedelic patterns and colour television.
As pop music really took off - not just The Beatles - we got disc jockeys and pirate radio and .... The Pirates of Penzance was still going strong ... and didn’t get replaced by Radio 1.
The 1960s Archive
All the programmes for the period are included below (just click on them to open a pdf version).
News reports are also available compiled into a pdf file - thanks to the Yarmouth Mercury and the EDP for permission to include these reports).
There are also photo galleries of pictures from the period.
|
