The sixties how it was

image: The first James Bond movie Dr No.

image : Babycham advertisment a popular womens drink in the sixties

image: An icon associated with left wing radical students and intellectuals in the sixties Che Guivara

image: Green shield stamps an incentive to shop where they were issued for many people

image: Very popular in the sixties Tupperware & Tupperware parties

image: Sixties Smiths crisps advertisment

image: The full horror of the Vietnamese war personified a monk on fire as a protest against the war

image: Cover of the Penguin paper back edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover

image:The mods favourite form of transport the Italian motor scooter

image:The sixties saw the advent of pop art

image: Daily Express news headline about the Profumo affair

image: Mary Quant inventor of the mini skirt

image: Chubbie Checker demonstrating the Twist

image:New kids on the block the Beatles first L.P.

image:Battle of Britian comemoration postage stamp

image: Vesta curry the begining of the British taste for more exotic food

image: Very popular for a while in the early sixties a BMW bubble car

image: The sixties saw the begining of the trend for overseas holidays

image: The ever popular Dansette record player

image: Ford Motor Motor Companies new family car for the sixties the Cortina

image: Still popular today Hienz baked beans

image:The new BSA 3 cylinder 750cc engined super bike

image: The sixties saw the introduction of the contraceptive pill

image: In the early sixties the only place to hear the latest records Radio Luxembourg

image:Hugh Paddick & Kenneth Williams AKA Julian and Sandy from the radio show Round the Horn

The sixties: That golden age, when the sun always shone, it never rained, and the summers lasted forever. The sixties started quietly enough, it was virtually a seamless transition from the previous decade. Rock'n'roll had been tamed and sanitized, in fact, it had become so emasculated that it was barely surviving.

Initially the status quo prevailed. Collectively, teenagers were still mostly demur, and subservient. Adults supervised youth clubs, and almost every other activity.

There was of course, the coffee bar (a legacy from the fifties), the cinema, and depending upon where you lived, the Friday and Saturday night dances, but it was all very innocuous and innocent.

The 'Cold War' preoccupied politicians, and sometimes the the temperature of the cold war was raised a little by incidents like the Cuba missile crisis and the shooting down of an American U2 spy plane. None of this was of much concern to us though. We had preoccupation's of our own.

Popular music was eventually revitalized by the Twist, and by 1962 The Beatles had rescued Rock'n'roll.

From then on things happened with an ever increasing momentum: Radio Caroline, The mods, discotheques. The old order, and all that it stood for, was suddenly under siege.The world had changed for ever, and although we did not know it then, we were the first young generation that had the power and influence of money.

The sixties were in many respects also very turbulent times. War in Vietnam, and war between the Arab nations and Israel. There was student unrest and tragedies like the Aberfan disaster. Despite these dark events the sixties was great time to be young, and I am so glad that I was part of it.

It has been said of the sixties that if you can remember it then you were never there. Well, I remember that time with great clarity and it is to the sixties, and to all of the people that I knew back then that this website is dedicated