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03:36The Isle of Wight, of course, was a favourite retirement destination of the British well-heeled
03:42and a haven of the yachting set.
03:48The arrival of nearly 700,000 hippies and freaks, as the locals saw them, was unwelcome to say the least.
03:56Judging by these images of the event, they might have had a point.
04:04There was also trouble of a more hostile nature brewing at other normally quiet resorts.
04:33The mod culture that started in the 60s, in the 70s gave rise to a new faction of so-called hard mods, skinheads as they were better known.
04:51Work boots, drainpipe jeans or trousers held up by braces, simple shirts and close cropped hair were their uniform.
05:03As they often lived in the same poor neighborhoods as Caribbean immigrants, they adopted ska and reggae as their music of choice.
05:16When they weren't dancing, many skinheads liked nothing more than a fight.
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05:29The Isle of Wight
05:30Before the Frozen
05:40The Isle of Wight
05:41The Isle of Wight
05:43That's a nice shirt.
06:02It's a Ben Sherman.
06:13And all because the lady loves milk tray.
06:37V-Day.
06:38D-Day.
06:39D-Day.
06:39I thought it's Sunday in June, but I'm not quite sure offhand, no.
06:42I can't really say.
06:43Definitely no.
06:44June, 44.
06:47June 6th, I believe.
06:48June 6th, 1944.
06:5115th of February, 1971.
06:55What's going to happen on the 15th of February next year?
06:58Can anybody tell me what's going to happen in February next year?
07:01Something very, very important.
07:04Alicia.
07:04Alicia.
07:05They're going to let the decimal money come out.
07:10Yes, let the decimal money come out.
07:12What's the decimal money?
07:13Christopher.
07:13Christopher.
07:14Well, all the old coins will be either burnt or melted.
07:19I think they'll be melted, but I think you'll burn them.
07:21And all the new decimal coins will be put into currency, and they'll be used.
07:30Old coins for new.
07:42Old half-crowns being melted down at the Royal Mint to become part of the new decimal coinage.
07:47Children are now taught in school to think and work in decimal coins.
07:57One of the main reasons for the change is that it is estimated that up to six months will be saved in teaching time by the introduction of decimal money.
08:04For children like these, it is easier to think in the new money.
08:08Can anybody tell me how many new pennies we're going to have in one pound?
08:12Gordon, a hundred.
08:14There's a hundred new pennies.
08:16My mum doesn't like the 50 pence, but I do.
08:22The new pence because they're easy to add up when I'm doing my arithmetic, and you only have to count in pounds and pence.
08:32In the old days, you had to add up going one, two, three, four, and like that, and to make a shilling, and so on.
08:42Can I have one, two, two, two plates, please?
08:44The decimal currency board has been given no power to control prices, but they've drawn up conversion tables to show shoppers what the old price was in relation to the new.
08:54And these approved tables will be on view in most shops.
09:02The most important thing the board will do is to send to every household before D-Day a booklet which explains the new currency in simple question-and-answer form.
09:14The booklet will also contain...
09:15...80, 90, one pound.
09:17Er, no, I didn't find it terribly easy.
09:21What do you think of those coins you've got in the change?
09:24Yes, I think they'll be all right when we get used to them.
09:26They'll be lighter to carry around.
09:28I don't think it's as difficult as I thought it might be.
09:31It wasn't so bad.
09:33What did you think of the new copper coins that you've got?
09:36I don't like them.
09:37I don't like them very much.
09:38This little one is too small and light, and the penny is a little bit light as well.
09:42The two-pence piece isn't so bad, but I'm not very keen on the other two.
09:46I got a bit confused with them, and it said half-pence.
09:48I had to think twice there.
09:50Well, I think one has to think in new pence, and not think in terms of the old currency and the new, and try and convert each thing.
10:01British miners didn't really care what kind of currency they were paid in.
10:12They just wanted more of it.
10:15Negotiations with Ted Heath's Conservative government came to nothing,
10:19and on the 9th of January 1972, the National Union of Mine Workers called an all-out strike.
10:30Things quickly turned ugly.
10:32The miners sent flying pickets to other industrial sites to persuade other workers to strike in solidarity,
10:43which led to railway workers refusing to transport coal,
10:47and power station workers refusing to handle coal.
10:50Power shortages became a way of life, with large parts of the country plunged into darkness.
11:13When the weather suddenly turned cold, causing even higher demand for power,
11:20the government declared a state of emergency.
11:22Undoubtedly, the exceptional weather precipitated the coal crisis,
11:30and when the nation was literally threatened with disaster, the power cut was ordered.
11:34Pictures taken at Barking Power Station symbolised the effect of the order throughout half-Britain,
11:40and films made in London typify the way the people responded to the order.
11:44In places where work could be done, it was done by the flickering light of candles.
11:48In many cafes and eating houses, it was the same.
11:52Traffic lights went out.
11:55Entertainment, of course, was severely restricted.
11:58Only essential workers, as those in hospitals, for example,
12:01were still permitted full use of light and power, though even they economised.
12:05Austerity now had quite a new meaning,
12:07and for hundreds of thousands of people, the effort to keep warm was priority number one.
12:12The news was unprecedented in this country, and it was staggering.
12:20Stocks of coal, low as they were, could not be distributed in time to save the situation.
12:28Ships were loading coal at Newcastle, but many were held up by the appalling weather.
12:32Then it grew colder still, and no one could forecast the extent or duration of the crisis.
12:37The damage already done could not be assessed, but it was frightening.
12:42The dispute finally ended on the 28th of February,
12:46when the miners accepted a revised pay offer.
12:50But the scene was set for a decade of industrial unrest.
12:54Well, the polo, it's got a hole through the panel.
13:11I think there are a mint.
13:12Well, the mint.
13:13Yes, well, I mean, it's the sweet with the mint.
13:15Oh, with a sort of mint.
13:16Oh, definitely, yes.
13:17Polo, the mint with a hole.
13:18The hint with a mole around it.
13:20I like polo.
13:21J'aime le tru of polo.
13:22It's round.
13:23That hole in the middle.
13:24You know what I mean?
13:25Yes, I do.
13:26I'll say so, yeah.
13:26Very good, you know.
13:27In fact, they're the whitest thing I've seen.
13:29It's famous, so it must be different.
13:31That hole.
13:32The hole.
13:33It's polo.
13:34The mint with a hole.
13:42On your last trip, did you discover what the earth people eat?
13:46They eat a great many of these.
13:49They peel them with their metal knives.
13:51Boil them for 20 of their minutes.
13:55Then they smash them all to bits.
13:59They are clearly a most primitive people.
14:04For mash, get smash.
14:07One, two, three.
14:09The farmers in his game.
14:11The farmers in his game.
14:14They say they are the best time of your life.
14:22And these kids certainly seem to be enjoying school.
14:26But the best time was playtime.
14:28From skipping ropes to hopscotch, oranges and lemons, British bulldog, and the farmer wants
14:44a wife.
14:46Games were a great way of making new friends.
14:49The nurse wants a dog.
14:52The nurse wants a dog.
14:54Eee-ah.
14:56The nurse wants a dog.
14:59But some traditional aspects of school life were changing.
15:03During Margaret Thatcher's term as Secretary of State for Education, free school milk for
15:12seven to eleven-year-olds was abolished, and with it went the extremely important role of
15:18milk monitor.
15:19It also led to the Iron Lady becoming known as Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher.
15:29Me and the guys down here are always discussing things, like the meaning of life.
15:40Yeah.
15:41And the wetter orange-flavored Crest is better than blackcurrant flavor, and stuff like that.
15:45But one thing we all agree on, it's really frothy.
15:54Wow!
15:56Wow!
15:56Cresta, in five fruity flavors.
16:00It's frothy, man.
16:03If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join the club.
16:09If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join the club.
16:15If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join the club.
16:21Jacob's Club.
16:22Have you ever seen more chocolate on a biscuit?
16:24If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
16:29If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
16:30If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join the club.
16:39Roth, would give me a lot of chocolate to flag at once皆.
16:42Hopefully you can cry on the Bahrain for Half a Dabbling.
16:43Although more people in the seventies were jetting off to foreign sun, many couldn't afford
16:49holidays abroad, and people descended on British seaside resorts like Brighton in their
16:55hordes donkey rides and swing boats punch and duty shows and fish and chips on the promenade
17:10were all part of the fun
17:27while adults lazed in the sun or waded in the surf children kept themselves occupied for hours on
17:33end simply jumping through the waves or building sandcastles with a bucket and spade
17:40and spade
17:43sing along with us
17:47yeah we're happy
18:05oh
18:10But lazing on the beach wasn't for everyone and many of us preferred the more active
18:38holidays offered by Butlins.
19:08All manner of activities lay within a short stroll of your chalet and ever-smiling redcoats
19:19made sure we enjoyed ourselves, whether we wanted to or not.
19:23Or not.
19:42Or not.
19:54Or not.
20:01Or not.
20:14Or not.
20:20Or not.
20:35Or not.
20:39Or not.
20:43Or not.
20:45Or not.
20:47Or not.
20:52It's the bright one.
20:55The right one.
20:57It's martini.
21:00There's much more to the world than you'll guess.
21:05And you'll taste it the day you say yes.
21:11To the bright taste, the right taste of martini.
21:19Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, there's a wonderful world you can share.
21:29In the bright taste, the right taste of martini.
21:39The bright one, the right one, there's martini.
21:46The mirror, the light one, it's the dark.
21:47It'll be happy when you hear the light.
21:49human action.
21:54Here's your light.
21:59Let's see if everyone sees you as something.
22:01In his Levi's, by the way, where'd you meet him?
22:06I met him at the candy store.
22:09He turned and smiled at me.
22:11You get the picture?
22:12Yes, we see.
22:13And that's when I fell for the leader of the pack.
22:18The other guys thought they were so smart.
22:23Smart, smart.
22:24But only he could capture my heart.
22:27Only he could capture her heart.
22:29In his Levi's, he looked so fine.
22:33Then I knew he had to be mine.
22:37That's when I fell for the leader of the pack.
22:43Leader of the pack.
22:45In his Levi's.
22:47Leader of the pack.
22:48In his Levi's.
22:50It was almost the final chapter in 10 years of hard bargaining with the signing of the Treaty of Accession.
23:01Altogether, there had been 140 meetings of ministers and their deputies.
23:05And now it's the turn of the delegation from ERA.
23:111973 saw the culmination of more than a decade of negotiations when Britain finally joined the European Union.
23:20But our relations with the rest of Europe proved just as troublesome then as they are today.
23:29Just two years after joining the EU, Britain held a referendum to decide if we wanted to remain.
23:36On Thursday, reassert the right to rule ourselves.
23:41Vote no.
23:42Vote no.
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24:06Vote no.
24:07Vote no.
24:08I think it's absolutely vital that everyone should turn out in this referendum and vote
24:19yes so that the question is over once and for all.
24:24We are really in Europe and ready to go ahead.
24:29I must say it's quite incredible the emotion men feel about this St. Bruno thing.
24:37I mean get them within a mile of the silly stuff and they start raving about its glorious flavor and how it takes 10 days to produce an ounce of that precious slow-burning blend quite frankly I think they're madly hyperbolical thank you but show me a man with St. Bruno in his pipe and I'll show him my unwavering credulity believe that and you believe anything.
25:07Power
25:12Power
25:16Space
25:19Prager
25:21Option
25:22Prager
25:23Pro
25:25Type
25:26Plate
25:27ucci
25:28PURT
25:29Type
25:30PURT
25:31PURT
25:32TURT
25:33PURT
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25:36With cars becoming more affordable, car ownership rose sharply in the 1970s and
25:59more and more desirable foreign cars like this Audi 100 LS were appearing on
26:06Britain's roads. Other popular cars included the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mini,
26:14and of course Britain's best-selling car of the 70s, the Ford Cortina.
26:36Although there were more cars around, our roads actually became safer in the 70s. Road deaths began
26:57a steady decline from a peak in the mid-1960s thanks to the introduction of seatbelts and hard-hitting
27:05public information films.
27:06Forget the car when you go for a drink and you can also forget the well-meant advice.
27:15Forget the self-denial. You can even forget being a free taxi service. But most important,
27:28you can forget this. So if you really want to enjoy a drink, remember, when you fancy a jar,
27:36forget the car.
27:37Before you say you'll never get hurt, well, every single day hundreds of people say it
27:53can't happen to me. But it does. And the difference between an ugly smash-up and just a nasty shake-up
28:00could be simply the seatbelt habit. So before any of us say it can't happen to me, snap into that seatbelt habit.
28:10If you imagine this is your car, then this is a motorcycle. Now, when you drive up to a main road,
28:28it's easy to see other cars. But because a motorcycle is a third of the width of a car,
28:33he's very hard to see. But he's dead easy to hurt. Nasty. And that's why at junctions I'm asking you
28:47to give a second thought for bikes. Stop, think once for cars, hold it, then think again for bikes.
28:54If you want to avoid this, think once, think twice, think bike.
29:06Not so long ago, people with traffic problems usually found a quick answer. But today's drivers
29:13need to keep a cooler head. Do you leave enough space when following other vehicles? And if another
29:19car fills the gap, do you drop back? If you don't, this sort of thing can happen. Remember,
29:29keep your distance.
29:41You know, each of those cars carries a whole family. Yes, even him. He's probably got a wife
29:48and kids depending on his arriving home safely. What are his chances? That much less if he doesn't
29:53snap into his seatbelt. There can be some pretty frightening results from accidents where people
29:57don't wear their seatbelts and they don't have to be fatal. After all, what's a family with mum or dad
30:03laid up in hospital? I know that if you wear a seatbelt, you reduce your chances of being killed
30:08or seriously injured by half. So what I'm getting at is this. If you won't belt up for yourselves,
30:14then please do it for them because your seatbelt is their security. And I'm going to be around for
30:21quite a while punching that message across. Right. Here's my first problem. The driver who takes all the
30:27trouble in the world to put a seatbelt on for a long drive along the motorway, but doesn't bother
30:32for just popping around the corner because it's that popping around the corner drive that's the
30:35most dangerous, just when you think it's not worth belting up. Think about this one. Over 60% of all
30:41traffic accidents happen in built-up areas. So let's get into that seatbelt habit and let's make it
30:46automatic, as automatic as closing the car door. After all,
30:50you wouldn't drive off without hearing this, would you? The clunk of the car door closing.
30:57Right. Let's add another sound.
31:02The click of a seatbelt being fastened. Clunk, click. That makes sound sense, doesn't it?
31:07Never clunk without your click. You know, we could become a nation of clunk clickers.
31:12Is it all worth it? Well, if it's not for you, surely it is for them. Remember, this seatbelt is their
31:18security. See you, clunk clicker.
31:38If you hear a noise with your milk and your rumble, it must be the 10-30 Humphrey Patrol.
31:43It's levels with pompons so creeping about. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out.
31:48There's a Humphrey about. One hundred Humphreys soft as silk. Out on the search for your
31:53Unigate filk. Get extra fighters or you'll be without. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out.
31:59There's a Humphrey about.
32:00You gritting idiot. Hello. You all right? Look what you've done to my car.
32:14Oh, nobody's fault of that. And I was taking mother to Clacton.
32:17Yes, I'm off to the Isle of Skye myself.
32:20Look at it.
32:22Oh, no problem. General accident will see to that.
32:24Even the most careful driver can run into a spot of bother.
32:31The general accident comprehensive policy is the only one which automatically gives you
32:34a Godfrey Davis car absolutely free.
32:37The car is yours for up till a fortnight, while your own is off the road.
32:40Hello, darling. Just got to make a quick phone call.
32:42May I introduce Mr. He's going to Clacton.
32:46The summer of 1977 saw communities across Britain,
33:16coming together for the party of a decade.
33:46The occasion was the celebration of the Queen Silver Jubilee,
33:53and we were determined to make Jubilee Day a day to remember.
33:58Clacton Mission to Clacton.
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