1970s History
Accommodation, Demolition, Council Flats, Squats, Racism, Feminism, Notting Hill Carnival, Hare Krishna, Camden Lock
The 1970s era is known for being a time of cultural and political change, racism, women's rights, IRA bomb threats and widespread trade union strikes. Hare Krishna an Indian religious group emerged at that time.
British Women’s Liberation Movement (BWLM) consider that the year 1970 marked the start of the movement which was influenced by and took place within a context of diverse movements that had emerged in the 1960s in Britain, parts of Europe and also in the United States (Student Revolution, Sexual Revolution, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Civil Rights Movement, Hippie Movement, Gay Rights). quoted from Florence Binard Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité
The Fool had a stall at Camden Lock Market on Saturdays and Sundays. We were there soon after the market had opened.
The 1970s: London and the Three-day week (Info taken from) David Rudlin -
However perhaps the best example of a creative quarter to emerge from the dark days of the mid 1970s is Camden Lock. Like Brighton this was the ‘victim’ of a proposed road scheme. A 27 year old called Eric Reynolds said ‘there was an explosion of arts and crafts in the Sixties and Seventies, but there were few places for people to sell their wares. I walked round London looking for an open space and came across this yard. In the week, it was a printers’ delivery yard, we got a short lease and on Saturday, March 4, 1974, we opened. ....Then Sunday trading became legal, so the market opened on Sundays as well.’
The 1970s: London and the Three-day weekThe recession of the mid 1970s…..(Info taken from) David Rudlin
When not blacked out by power cuts the television was full of stories about strikes and trade union militancy. The recession had been triggered by the 1973 Oil Crisis and the miners strike later the same year. In January 1974 the Conservative Government imposed a state of emergency. Very soon we were in the three-day week and the country was plunged into an uncertain world of power cuts and strikes. The British economy – already branded the ‘sick man of Europe’ – was struggling under the burden of 20% inflation, unemployment of more than a million and a huge national deficit. 1974 saw two elections, the first of which resulted in a hung Parliament and the second a majority of three for Labour under Harold Wilson.