Growth In Leisure Activities

Question 1

How did leisure time change for those that worked?

Answer 1

-fewer worked Saturday mornings
-weekends given to leisure activities

Question 2

How was the home a place of leisure activity?

Answer 2

-TV — 1969 TV accounted for 23% leisure time
-DIY + gardening popular hobbies along with cookery, needle work + knitting
-live theatre shrank rapidly + so did attendance football matches

Question 3

What was the influence of cars?

Answer 3

-passenger bus, coach + train travel declined as use of car accelerated — 73% journeys by car by 1974
-technological improvements made cars affordable
-cars permitted travel to alternative shopping centres + leisure facilities

Question 4

How did holidays change?

Answer 4

-Britannia airways founded 1964 to serve those wanting go abroad
-travels to Spain, Malta etc
-but cost air travel 1960s made it still largely preserved for middle classes + above

Question 5

What were package holidays?

Answer 5

-still in infancy by end 1960s
-but grown from under 4% 1966 to 8.4% 1971
-Spain encouraged development tourist resorts - 2 wks in Spain costing £20
-30% all over seas package holidays were in Spain