Born in 1942

£1 in 1942 would be worth approximately £51.00 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1942 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 29 January – radio programme Desert Island Discs first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme, presented by Roy Plomley; Austrian-born revue performer Vic Oliver (the Prime Minister's son-in-law) is the first castaway. The programme will still be running 80 years later.
• 15 February – World War II: General Arthur Percival's forces surrender to the Japanese in the event known as the Fall of Singapore.
• 10 July – the patriotic Academy Award-winning drama film Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson, is released in London.
• 19 August – World War II: British and Canadian troops conduct the Dieppe Raid.
• 5 October – Oxford Committee for Famine Relief founded.
• 23 October – World War II: British and Commonwealth forces launch a major attack against German and Italian forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
• 8 November – World War II: British and American troops invade French North Africa in Operation Torch.
• 7 December – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)