Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Leisure
- Within the home
- The family home remained the
centre of leisure as it included TV
viewing, listening to music and
reading magazines and cheap
paperback books were easily
available
- Television programmes such as
Gardeners World featuring Percy
Thrower encouraged DIY and
gardening to become popular
hobbies
- New products were created
to accommodate the growth
in gardening and DIY such as
weed killers, composts and
plastic garden tools
- The worlds first
electric hover-mower
was created in 1969
called the Flymo
- 4/5 homes possessed a
garden which provided an
escape from urban life
- Cookery, needlework and knitting
still had a place in the 1960's home
and was encouraged by new
gadgets
- Kitchen appliances made
cooking more attractive
and household tasks
became less time
consuming due to labour
saving devices
- Woman had more time
for creative activities
which were reflected
through women's
magazines such as
Stitchcraft and also in
more general magazines
with a regular recipe
feature
- Outside the home
- Pubs and working men's clubs
remained popular but some
older activities such as cinema
experienced a decline
- The spread of cars, foreign
travel and rising living
standards encouraged new
activities such as eating out
- Restaurants appeared and
catered for all tastes
- Shopping
became a leisure
activity
- Advertising tempted people to go
shopping for luxuries rather than just
necessities as mass production
meant there were more goods readily
available
- Caravanning, golf and sailing
became more popular in the 1960's
- Increased car ownership
- Cars provided an easy
means of travelling for
personal needs and comfort
- Passenger bus, coach and
train travel declined due to
cars grew to account for
77% of journeys by 1974
- Cars had room for
family, luggage and
goods
- The camper van was
marketed as an
opportunity for families
to enjoy a flexible and
individual style of
holiday
- Cars became affordable due to
new technological
improvements and new
designers
- Alec Issigonis developed the cheap
car called the Mini priced under £500.
It was small and basic, but people
such as Prince Charles and The
Beatles made it into a fashion icon
- The mini became the the
symbol of "Swinging
London"
- More people could afford it, and
even a small car showed that a
family had become more affluent
- Environmental changes were brought about
as many roads were newly built
- The first long stretch from London to
Yorkshire of the modern M1 motorway was
made in 1959
- There was an
approximate £104m
loss in the rail industry
- The Beeching Report closed branch lines,
stations and dismantled tracks to reduce the
rail networks. This meant that 160,000 jobs
were lost over 7 years
- Mass tourism
- Cheap package holidays were popular
- Holiday providers were forced to
adapt to the changing times
- Resorts such as Butlins advertised for the
growing teenage market, which backfired as
the camps became branded as dens of
vandalism
- Britannia Airways
was founded in 1964
to fly holidaymakers
to Spain, the Canary
Islands, Malta,
Bulgaria and North
Africa
- Entrepreneurship grew in the
1960's to take advantage of
this increase
- There was restricted competition between different
flights until 1971, but they could fly at a discount if
passengers had 6 months' membership to a group or
club (not about travel). Entrepreneurs created bogus
societies to exploit the holiday market
- The Spanish leader General Franco
encouraged travel as it would bring
economic success to his country
- He transformed parts of Spain into tourist
resorts such as Benidorm and the Balearic
Islands
- 2 weeks in Spain cost at little
as £20 and 30% of all
overseas package holidays
were taken there