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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 7:34 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

, 6:40 Mon Jan 30

'December 79 my mortgage rate was 11.75%. That month in the HoC Thatcher announced that from the beginning of 1980 the rate would rise to 15%.'

Just a couple of small points.

1) The PM doesn't now and didn't then set mortgage rates. They are and were set by the banks and building societiesin competition with each other.

2) Base rates peaked at 17% in November 1979 and have fallen consistently ever since.

Apart from that - the entirety of your post, you are correct in every respect.

BillyJenningsBoots 7:02 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Oh and Not the Nine O'clock News began...
Pamela Stephenson phwoar!!!!

cheeses cruyf 7:01 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Led Zeppelin at Knebworth

oioi 7:01 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

ted fenton 6:44 Mon Jan 30

Holiday Music?

oioi 7:00 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Holiday Music?

BillyJenningsBoots 7:00 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Strange Town
First concert - The Jam
Setting Sons
Down in the Tubestation at Midnight
When You're Young
London Calling
I fought the Law
Regatta de Blanc
Message in a bottle
Heart of Glass
Eat to the Beat
Dreaming
Are Friends Electric
Cars (Gary Numan not the band)
The arrival of Tonka, Pancho and Parkesy
Paul Allen emerges from the Youth team
Decent Cup run...

Leonard Hatred 6:53 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

First Wetherspoons opens in Muswell Hill

Leonard Hatred 6:50 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Sid Vicious bought the farm

Disco v Punk

dm 6:47 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Rainbow's last decent album - Down to Earth
(the only one with Graham Bonnet, also the last one with Cozy Powell and the first one with Roger Glover)

dm 6:45 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Essex winning the Benson and Hedges Cup, and running away with the Schweppes County Championship

ted fenton 6:44 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

I met Mrs Ted

Was buying a 12 string guitar down Leytonstone high road when it was announced on the radio that Maggie was the new prime minister.

London Docks were slowly dying I eventually took voluntary severance.

West Ham finished 5th in division 2 ;-(

Message In A Bottle
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
The Wall
Breakfast In America

claypole 6:44 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

It was Thatcher's Britain™

, 6:40 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

December 79 my mortgage rate was 11.75%. That month in the HoC Thatcher announced that from the beginning of 1980 the rate would rise to 15%.

So called good old days.

RBshorty 6:36 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Ain't we done this before.?


Alien.

aubRM1 6:36 Mon Jan 30
Re: 1979

Alan Sunderland

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