leisure activities within + outside the home

Question 1

home remained centre of many leisure activities , this was extended by

Answer 1

tv

Question 2

by 1969 tv accounted for

Answer 2

23% of leisure time

Question 3

what became popular hobbies?

Answer 3

DIY and gardening
-popularised by ‘practical householder’ magazine and on TV
-Peter Thrower(‘Gardener;s world’)

Question 4

how many homes had a garden?

Answer 4

80% of homes had a garden=many maintained by new plastic tools + electric mowers

Question 5

cookery wit new gadgets was popular but needlework and knitting even more so why?

Answer 5

possible to watch TV at same time

Question 6

what shrank rapidly?

Answer 6

live theatre especially outside major cities, while attendance at football matches+other live events also suffered

Question 7

relative decline of

Answer 7

cinema-going + playing/watching outdoor games

Question 8

rise in car ownership particularly important as it encouraged people to?

Answer 8

eat out,shop, take holidays (e.g caravan) + take up new hobbies(e.g golf and sailing)

Question 9

traditional seaside holiday trip to Blackpool or a Butlin’s holiday camp was given way to?

Answer 9

caravanning

Question 10

the caravan club saw its membership

Answer 10

double during the sixties - visited new places such as Devon and Cornwall

Question 11

spirit of adventure may account for increase in caravanning but pragmatic reasons too

Answer 11

-e.g in Blackpool dumped raw sewage washed onto the bach by the tide

Question 12

between 1966-1971 total holidays abroad rose from

Answer 12

4% to 8.4%
-trend was upwards