Description

The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were decades of great change. People's shopping habits began to change as supermarkets took over from traditional stores, and leisure habits changed as cheap air travel led to the arrival of the foreign package holiday. Fashions, as ever, were changing: men's hairstyles got longer as women's skirts got shorter. The world of work was changing rapidly as technological advances were made and the effects of globalism began to be felt by many. And it was also a period of change in the way we viewed ourselves and world as society's attitudes to mental health, homosexuality, and feminism were moving on slowly from the postwar years. These changes were keenly felt in the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury, and local author and historian David Trumper has captured them all in this fascinating portrayal of how the town and its people changed over the course of these most nostalgic decades.