As we look forward to the Olympics next year, 2012, in London, it’s time to look back at Britain’s progress in the Olympic Games in the 1960s.
This year hopes are high for sporting gold from the British team who have been out training hard and already hitting the headlines with sporting wins. So, how well did we do in the years of the 1960’s decade? Was Britain a grand nation winning gold at every turn?
Well, there were three Games in the decade; the first in 1960 was in Rome, the second in 1964 in Tokyo and the final one of the decade in 1968 was in Mexico City.
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I recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were.
I intended my article yesterday on wages to be an attempt to show just how much of an investment (if that’s the right word to use) it was to buy a car. However, several people asked me how much it was to buy a house at that time.
If you are a regular reader then you will know that I often quote price comparisons in the car reviews that I do. 
Not only are we used to getting messages from men in space but we also get TV pictures from the International Space Station and even live TV from satellite. However, in 1960 radio communication with space was quite a different story.