February 2013

WHERE’S YOUR FLARES?

Community News February 2013

WHERE’S YOUR FLARES?

Have you still got an Abba song running through your head?  Do you still get hot under the collar about the 3-Day Week or the Winter of Discontent?

Then you remember the 1970s and you may have something to contribute to this year’s Big Museum Venture: ‘Halesworth in the 1970s’. We’re going to try to recapture a bit of the spirit of that time and awaken a lot of slumbering memories. Do you remember where you were at the Queen’s Silver Jubilee? Can you remember the death of Elvis? Or the day our first woman Prime Minister arrived at No. 10? Were you one of the lucky ones who got the first of the newly invented VCRs? Or a Sony Walkman? Even, perhaps, one of those brick-sized mobile phones?

Or maybe you were still playing with your Space Hopper and wishing you could get a Commodore PET or an Atari for Christmas, play Space Invaders or show off a brand-new digital watch at school. You young-uns can tell us a lot about growing up in the 1970s.

The 70s Project will kick off in earnest in the late summer and run for a year, during which time we’ll be staging 70s events and displays and capturing memories of that hectic decade, both from people who were in the area at the time and from those who have strong recollections of what they were doing elsewhere.

But in the meantime, watch this space and get digging at the back of the bottom drawer for those old flares you’ve never got round to throwing away or those hot pants you can’t quite squeeze into anymore, and especially those photos of you in your platforms or your sideburns. ‘Saturday Night Fever’ is returning to town!

For further details or to take part, contact Vic Gray at the Halesworth and District Museum, 01986 872437, grayvw@globalnet.co.uk