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Weekly recalls swinging sixties with new nostalgia publication

If you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there – or so the old saying goes.

But one weekly newspaper is recalling the turbulent decade and what it meant for its patch with a new 48-page nostalgia publication.

The Cheddar Valley Gazette’s ‘Swinging Sixties’ hit the streets last week priced £1.

It charts the history of the trend-setting period and its impact on mid-Somerset in particular, through interviews with some of the key local figures of the time as well as archive reports and pictures.

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“The 1960s saw change in all aspects of life and the Mid Somerset Series of newspapers was there to reflect these changes on a local level,” says Clare Blackmore, who compiled the material for the 48-page publication.

Different sections cover the music, films, fashion, cars and employment opportunities of the time, while a section on technology reports on the first firm to install a computer in Wells, in 1966.

Other sections are devoted to weather – the Big Freeze of 1963 and the Great Storm of 1968 – and one of the most popular sports of the mid-1960s, wrestling.

Editor Bede MacGowan said: “Hats off once again to the dream team of Clare and chief sub Andy Vallis for another fantastic nostalgia publication. Clare does all this purely as a labour of love, she is an absolute diamond.”

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  • November 24, 2015 at 11:48 am
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    What aspects of life *specifically* changed in the 60s in mid-Somerset?

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