KEITH HAMILTON looks through past editions of the Echo and reviews the issues which made the headlines

50 YEARS AGOVic Feather, TUC assistant general secretary, was addressing a meeting of the Southampton Sav-ings Committee's industrial sub-committee.

Tickets costing up to 3s (15p) were being snapped for a Southampton Guild-hall concert by singer Tito Gobi.

40 YEARS AGONot all Southampton dockers answered the call to join a day-long strike over working conditions centred on the Union Castle liner Winchester Castle.

Southern Railways was advertising a combined rail and theatre ticket for London show The World of Susie Wong at 26s (£1.30).

30 YEARS AGOFares on Southampton Corporation buses were about to go up by one old penny, although the top-priced 10d (4p) ticket was set to become 1s (5p).

The city's Civic Centre art gallery launched a set of eight colour slides of its most popular paintings for home projection.

20 YEARS AGOCheap ferry trips to France from Southampton were cancelled after complaints from crews about drunk and rowdy passengers.

Crews also complained they were swamped by huge crowds of passengers turning up for the £5 return booze and cruise trips to Cherbourg.

10 YEARS AGOArmy bomb disposal experts were preparing to start clearing wartime mines found at Southampton Airport.

Hovermarine International at Woolston won a lucrative order for two new fire-boats for the port of New York in America.

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