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The Cartridge Years: 1972, 1982 and 1992

Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1972, 1982 and 1992.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 2 Jun 2013 14:00

June 1972

  • Sixteen building workers were on strike at Beaulieu where work was going on to finish National Motor Museum. 聽聽
  • A token strike at Plessey's Radar factory at Cowes. About 250 people - about a quarter of workforce - are involved in the stoppage over a pay claim.
  • Here was a row over the felling of 250 trees in New Forest. 聽Local people had expected only twenty trees to be felled to make way for overhead power cables to four cottages.
  • Twenty Two year old Linda Allen from Fareham was givent he title crowned Miss Hampshire Gunner. She had spent 10 days with Hampshire Regiment in West Germany.
  • An Isle of Wight planning committee were criticised for their handling of application for residential development at Bembridge Harbour.聽
  • Dorset Police were searching for men who attacked & robbed a couple at their Weymouth shop.聽
  • Meet The Navy Week was being held in Portsmouth.
  • Gypsy Moth completed the transatlantic race - even though skipper Francis Chichester was ill on board.
  • A 40 ton steel cannon was discovered by workmen building a road in Freshwater.
  • 1800 Dock workers from Southampton were on strike - part of a national dispute.
  • Two families were evicted from a travellers site in Weymouth.
  • Paddle Steamer 'Ryde' was launched on the Medina River as a floating hotel.
  • 200 inmates at Albany prison staged a sit in - protesting about food and a lack of weekend exercise.
  • Victor Gibb was named Fork Lift Truck driver of the year at Southampton docks.
  • Duke of Edinburgh was in Poole on an official visit.
  • New Forest was hosting the national orienteering championships.
  • Fire destroyed a great part of the Old Mill hotel in Ringwood.
  • New regulations on the materials used in car tyres came into effect.
  • Four companies of UDA accompany Protest Vanguard marched through Armagh.
  • A Norwegian vessel fired on a British trawler off Scotland.
  • Flt. Lt. John Potter pedalled his balsa & baking foil plane built by RAF apprentices a record 1,171yards 2ft 10in in Oxfordshire.
  • An RAF Plane crashed into Irish Sea. All on board were rescued uninjured.
  • Twin engined Hanser plane carrying 8 German business men crashed into holiday camp killing 7 passengers just after take off from Blackpool airport.
  • Canberra bomber crash in Norwich - two RAF airmen killed.
  • Goodyear Blimp: Europa, rebuilt since she broke her moorings and crashed into a tree, took her first test flight since crashing two months earlier.
  • The first day of Henley Royal Regatta was blessed with sunshine.
  • Large number of icebergs drifting south blamed for depression in Atlantic causing coldest June in GB since records began .
  • 9,000 steel workers out on strike on Teeside.
  • The IRA called for a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
  • A five year old boy was reported missing from home in Staines.
  • Briton Timothy Davey lost his appeal against 6yr prison sentence for drug offences in Turkey.
  • There were floods in Bangladesh.
  • Whaling was banned for ten years by UN Environment conference in Stockholm.
  • Insurers were warning that car premiums were likely to rise by up to thirty per cent this year.聽
  • British Airways were trying to sell Concorde to Japan.
  • Pilots were threatening strike action.
  • The railway workers dispute ended.
  • British Leyland announce plans to sell half a million cars in Europe within 3 years.
  • Noise & industrial fall-out from Gulf Oil Refinery was making life unbearable for villagers at Waterston, Pembrokeshire.
  • New uniform and sportswear for the Great Britain Olympic team for Munich were revealed.
  • Swedish veteran driver Jo Bonnier was killed in the Le mans 24 Hour race.
  • A mobile crane crashed into a drapers shop in North London.

June 1982

  • A petrol price war broke out in some parts of Southern England.
  • Drama series 'Beau Geste' was being filmed near near Wareham.
  • 2000 workers at Marconi went on a 1 day strike in Portsmouth.
  • Health Service Workers and other trade Union members took part in a march in Southampton.聽
  • Cunard cargo ship 'Saxonia' returned Portsmouth after serving in the Falklands.
  • British Journalists returned home at the end of the falklands conflict.
  • A Portsmouth petrol service station opened an on site cash machine for the first time.
  • Sixty one 61 people abseiled down the 110ft. 'Abbey Life' Assurance building in Bournemouth to raise money for Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.
  • A large crowd gathered at Calshot to see a flying display to commemorate Schneider Trophy Air Races of the past.
  • Pilot Eric Moody was in charge of a British Airways Boeing 747 as it suffered a temporary loss of all four engines, having flown through an ash cloud over Indonesia.聽
  • Members of the ASLEF union were on strike.
  • Roy Jenkins was elected leader of the SDP.聽
  • Princess Diana celebrated her 21st birthday.
  • William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor was born.聽
  • An Al Italia plane on a flight from Delhi to Tokyo was hijacked.
  • Spain & Argentina were knocked out of the world cup.
  • NASA were conducting test flights for the Space Shuttle in Florida.

June 1992

  • Hampshire Police arrested missing prisoner Malcolm Smith in Millbrook.
  • Fifty soldiers from Blandford set off to join the peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia. They are members of the thirty signals regiment.聽
  • A 35,000 signature petition calling for a ban deer hunting on the New Forest was handed to Southampton Itchen MP, John Denham.聽
  • Senior Catholic churchman Dr Edward DALY held talks with Sinn Fein - the first time such a meeting had taken place.
  • Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Princess of Wales had not authorised any interviews or co-operated "in any way" with the controversial book about the Royal marriage.
  • A bomb exploded outside the festival Hall on London`s South Bank.
  • A police officer was murdered & another seriously wounded by gunmen in Yorkshire.
  • Prime Minister John Major was under intense pressure over the Maastricht treaty.
  • The first test at Edgbaston between England and Pakistan ended in a draw.
  • The Milk Race ended in Lincoln.

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  • Sun 2 Jun 2013 14:00