from the ARCHIVES PART 2: THE 1970s
Continuing our series, Gentleman Jack gets in a ‘flap’, with both his flared trousers and what proved to be a difficult decade for motorhome manufacturers
The opening action sequence of the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, in which James Bond skis over a cliff into freefall for an eternity, only to be saved at the very last moment by the release of a Union Jack parachute, was an allegory for the decade itself. After troubled times, we managed to land safely at the end of the decade!
What an end, though… 1978/79’s Winter of Discontent. That and the three-day week have been transmuted into one event by
