A Look Back At

Born in 1960

What Was Life Like in 1960?

Who Was in Charge?

Prime Minister

Harold Macmillan

Monarch

Elizabeth II

What Things Cost

Pint of Beer

11p

Loaf of Bread

7p

Petrol (per litre)

6p

Average House

£2,530

Weekly Wage

£14.10

Value of Money

£1 in 1960 would be worth approximately £31.80 in today's money.

Events of 1960 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1960 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 20 March – Lonnie Donegan's single "My Old Man's a Dustman" reaches No. 1 in the UK charts.
  • 27 April – The first production of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker takes place at the Arts Theatre in London.
  • 24 June – Avro 748 makes its first flight from Woodford.
  • 30 June – The musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart has its West End premiere.
  • 16 August – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia remain as British Overseas Territories.
  • 17 August – The Beatles, a five-strong male band from Liverpool, perform their first concert under this name in Hamburg, West Germany.
  • 27 October – The film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is released, the first of the British social-realist wave.
  • 9 December – The first episode of the soap opera Coronation Street, made by Granada Television in Manchester, is aired on ITV. It will still be running past its 10,000th episode in its 60th anniversary year.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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