11th April 2013, 09:32 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.Hang on, I'm getting myself completely tangled up here.
Three Day Week was 1974 under Heath and the Conservatives. Strike action by miners which resulted in dwindling coal supplies and rotating planned powercuts.
Winter of Discontent was 1978-79 under Callaghan and Labour. That involved strikes by lorry drivers, nurses, gravediggers and bin collection. No powercuts as a result of strike action, but it was very hard winter so those would've have been happening from downed power lines and the like, as we've seen this winter.
Looks like neither political persuasion had a monopoly on stuffing it up.