11th April 2013, 06:20 AM
Kel Wrote:Think that was the Three-Day Week January to March 1974, part of the 1973/4 "Winter of Discontent". I remember playing board games in the evenings by the light of a Tilley lamp. Some of the few occasions on which our father interacted with us kids on a congenial basis. I rather enjoyed it.
That's right and lest we forget that was under a Conservative government that included a minister called M Thatcher......
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