Ideas for Summer Camp – Decades
These are just a few ideas to get you started.
1916-1925 (306th Manchester)
- Start of Cubs
- 1920 – First radio broadcast from Chelmsford
- 1923 – Wembly Stadium (Part I officially opened!)
1926-1935 (2/241st Manchester)
- 1926 – First traffic lights in London
- 1927 – Penicilin was discovered by Alexander Flemming
- 1927 – Lady Chatterley’s lover was written!
- 1928 – First public telephone boxes
- 1930 – YHA founded
- 1930 – Amy Johnson flies off England to Australia
- 1930 – Swallows and Amazons was written
- 1935 – 30 mph in built up areas introduced
1936-1945 (Not included)
1946-1955 (2/249th Manchester)
- 1946 – NHS formed
- 1946 – Fuel crisis
- 1946 – Edinburgh Festival opened for first time
- 1948 – NHS officially opened!
- 1948 – British Rail born
- 1948 – NATO Treaty signed
- 1951 – Festival of Britain
- 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen
- 1953 – Hilary and Tenzing Norgay conquer Everest
- 1954 – First 4-minute mile (Roger Bannister
- 1954 – Lord of Flies (William Golding) was written
- 1955 – Ruth Ellis executed
1956-1965 (2/88th Manchester)
- Suez Crisis
- CND campaign started
- Mini goes on sale
- First section of the M1 opens
- 1961 – Angela Pinter –English Women to win Wimbledon
- 1961 – Private Eye first published
- 1962 – Cuban Missile crisis
- 1963 – Great Train Robbery
- 1963 – First Blue Peter Annual published
- 1964 – BBC2 starts broadcasting
- 1965 – Pennine Way dedicated as National Trail
1966-1975 (123rd Manchester)
- England win the World Cup
- 1967 – Breathalysers introduced
- 1968 – Martin Luther King assassinated
- 1969 – First Concorde flights
- 1969 – First man on the moon
- 1971 – Decimalisation
1976-1985 (Northeden)
- Prince Charles and Diana got married
- Live Aid Concert
1986-1995 (Bagley Hall)
- Challenger Shuttle Disaster
- Mexico Football World Cup
- Gulf War Round 1
- Italia ‘90
1996-2006 (23rd Manchester
Physical Activity Base
- Euro 96
- World Cup
- England Winning Rugby World Cup
- Manchester 2002
- Harry Potter takes the world by storm
- Princess Diana dies in car crash
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