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1970s London

Discovering the Capital

By (author) Alec Forshaw
Genres: Local history
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: The History Press Ltd, Stroud, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Feb 2011
Dimensions: w 151mm h 232mm d 4mm
Weight: 310g
ISBN-10: 0752456911
ISBN-13: 9780752456911
Barcode No: 9780752456911
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Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights shone brightest. In reality, it was still a city struggling to find its post-war identity, full of declining industries and derelict docklands, a townscape blighted by undeveloped bomb sites, demonic motorway proposals and slum clearance schemes. The streets were full of costermongers and greasy-spoon cafes, but enlivened by ghettos of immigrants and student culture. Ideas of traffic constraint and recycling rubbish were in their infancy. It was a decade which saw the three-day week, the Notting Hill riots and the last of the anti-Vietnam war protests. This sequel to Growing Up in Cambridge portrays the London of over thirty years ago as it appeared to a young man in his twenties, finding his feet, coming of age, and stumbling across the sights and sounds of an extraordinary city.

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