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1 online resource (128 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights shone brightest. In reality, it was still a city struggling to find its post-war identity, full of declining industries and derelict docklands, a townscape blighted by undeveloped bomb sites, demonic motorway proposals and slum clearance schemes. The streets were full of street hawkers and greasy-spoon cafes, but enlivened by ghettos of immigrants and student culture. Ideas of traffic constraint and recycling rubbish were in their infancy. It was a decade which saw the three-day week, the Notting Hill riots and the last of the anti-Vietnam war protests. This sequel to Growing Up in Cambridge portrays the London of decades past as it appeared to a young man in his twenties, finding his feet, coming of age, and stumbling across the sights and sounds of an extraordinary city. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Forshaw, Alec, 1951- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Nineteen seventies.
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London (England) -- Social life and customs.
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Electronic books.
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Nineteen seventies London |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Forshaw, Alec, 1951- 1970s London. Stroud : History, 2011. 9780752456911 (Uk)015664074 |
| Standard No. |
9780750956468 |
| ISBN |
9780750956468 (e-pub) |
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