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.
Popular Toys & Games
- Hula Hoop
- Frisbee
- Play-Doh
UK No. 1 on 1 January 1957
Singing the Blues
Guy Mitchell