The 1970s was a decade of change. Supermarkets began to take over
from traditional stores, high-rise office blocks appeared on the
skyline, and Leicester's first shopping centre replaced familiar
Victorian shops and hotels. It was a time of industrial unrest. The
lights went out as coal stocks diminished. Pay packets were
depleted as Leicester's workers faced a three-day week, prices in
the shops began to soar, and we all shivered during the 'winter of
discontent'. It was a turning point in the way we viewed ourselves
and the world. Social attitudes to mental health, homosexuality and
feminism were still rooted in the past, but the world was changing.
People took to Leicester's streets to support anti-racism, and we
began to clean up our environment. In Leicester in the 1950s
Stephen Butt remembers what made the decade so special for so many,
but also the events which were to change significantly the course
of Leicester's future.
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