A Look Back At

Born in 1957

What Was Life Like in 1957?

Who Was in Charge?

Prime Minister

Harold Macmillan

Monarch

Elizabeth II

What Things Cost

Pint of Beer

9p

Loaf of Bread

6p

Petrol (per litre)

5p

Average House

£2,249

Weekly Wage

£11.65

Value of Money

£1 in 1957 would be worth approximately £33.60 in today's money.

Events of 1957 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1957 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 16 January – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.
  • 6 March – The Northern Territories protectorate and British Togoland are annexed to the Crown, which territories together with Ashanti and Gold Coast become Ghana which is independent of the United Kingdom.
  • 2 May – The Hammer Film Productions' The Curse of Frankenstein is released.
  • 14 May – The end of petrol rationing following the Suez Crisis.
  • 5 August – The cartoon character Andy Capp first appears in northern editions of the Daily Mirror.
  • 2 October – David Lean's Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai is released.
  • 10 October – Windscale fire: The graphite core of the nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, catches fire, releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area.
  • 8 November – Operation Grapple: First successful (test) explosion of a British hydrogen bomb, at Christmas Island in the Pacific.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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UK No. 1 on 1 January 1957

Singing the Blues

Guy Mitchell