FP Membership 1972!

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We have been fortunate enough to be gifted the membership card which belonged to Laurie Brown, back in 1972. Membership was the princely sum of £3 and each card was duly signed by Honorary Collector of Subscriptions Iain C S Gumley CA!

It got us thinking, what else was happening in the news n 1972?

  • Miners Strike against the Government
  • Edward Heath was Prime Minister
  • The CND were demonstrating
  • Willie Whitelaw was appointed as first Secretary of Northern Ireland
  • The final stretch of the M6 motorway opened between junctions 6 (Spaghetti Junction) and 7 north of Birmingham
  • Glasgow Rangers F.C. won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, defeating FC Dynamo Moscow
  • The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar made its West End debut
  • The BBC quiz programme Mastermind was first broadcast
  • Gordon Banks, the England national football team goalkeeper, suffered a serious eye injury in a car crash in Staffordshire.