THE new decade is likely to replace the 1970s as Britain's worst since the end of the Second World War.
Certainly the global pandemic, two years of lockdowns and the division surrounding the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union have each made the 2020s thoroughly miserable.
However those who endured the 1970s would be the first to tell you that particularly decade was particular tough.
They began with massive trade union stoppages against Edward Heath’s Industrial Relations Act and continued with the financial crisis of the IMF and ended with the ‘Winter of Discontent’ when unparalleled strikes, official and unofficial, crippled the country.
It was not all doom and gloom however and the Tizer has trawled through the archive to share some pictures from the 1970s.
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Fancy Dress at the Highwayman in 1970.
Fancy Dress at the Highwayman in 1970.
North West Shropshire Area Boys sports day at Park Hall in 1970.
It's a Knockout at Cae Glas Park in 1970.
Oswestry Advertiser Bowls competition in 1970.
Morda cheese and wine evening in 1972.
The Seekers Jazz band from Oswestry on parade in 1972.
West Felton Playgroup in 1972.
Children from Middleton Road School, Oswestry, at their Nativity play in 1974.
A team from a local round of Call My Bluff in Oswestry in 1974.
Oswestry Operatic Society in 1975.
All the fun of the fair in 1975.
The re-opening of The Regal cinema, Oswestry, in 1976
Oswestry Town FC in 1976.
Middleton Road School pupils with jubilee mugs in 1977.
Memebers of Oswestry Otters enjoy a Christmas party in December 1979.
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