The counterculture movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was one of the most influential time periods in modern Britain.
There were also huge economical changes and political controversies during these decades.
The 60s was also a time in which The Beatles shot to fame, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon and Martin Luther King Jr made his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. With the 70s being the decade of the Ford Cortina, the record player and cassette recorder. It was also a decade of strikes, with postal workers, miners and dustmen all taking part in industrial action in the seventies.
Birmingham also remained by far Britain’s most prosperous provincial city as late as the 1970s, with household incomes in the West Midlands exceeding even those of London and the South East.
This week, we’ve decided to go back in time by looking at how life was for people in Solihull in the 60s and 70s. Here are 10 photos from the decades.
All photos from Getty
Let’s take a look
1. A team of six men erect a Terrapin Pack Building measuring 1,800 square feet in under two hours at Castle Bromwich in Solihull
2. View of a Mark 1 Rover P5 saloon car, manufactured by the Rover Car Company in Solihull pictured parked in front of a suburban house in 1963. (Photo by J. R. Watkins/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
3. 25th June 1965: Journalist Jonathan Aitken as a prospective Conservative candidate for the seat of Meriden in Solihull. His political career eventually ended in disgrace, bankruptcy and a prison sentence
Photo: (Photo by M. McKeown/Express/Getty Images)
4. British former army officer and explorer Sir Martin Lindsay (1905 - 1981), Conservative MP for Solihull, 1962