THIS week’s Life Through a Lens focuses on local happenings of December 1969.
Protesters marched in support of better pay for nurses. Banners were also hung at Southampton General Hospital as well as Bargate.
A large Christmas tree was erected at the Civic Centre and a ceremony saw the towering behemoth lit-up in all it’s twinkling glory.
While these events were unravelling locally, this is what was taking place nationally:
December 15
Martins Bank was purchased by Barclays.
December 18
The abolition of the death penalty for murder was made permanent by Parliament.
December 18
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – the sixth James Bond film – was released in the UK.
December 26
A fire at the Rose and Crown Hotel, Saffron Walden, claimed eleven lives.
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