THIS year we travel back to 1985 – a year that rocked the world in several ways.
Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raised £50m for famine relief in Ethiopia and technology started to make giant strides forward with the first mobile phone call made by comedian Ernie Wise to Vodafone. Inventor Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 battery-assisted tricycle, but it was phased out by the end of the year due to disastrous sales.
It was the beginning of the end for red phone boxes with BT announcing they would be phased out.
Click below to take you back to 1985.
The first ever episode of Eastenders was broadcast that February and in terms of academic achievement Huddersfield’s 13-year-old Ruth Lawrence achieved a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
The bitter and sometimes violent miners strike finally finished after a year while the first heart lung transplant was carried out at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex.
In sport, Sandy Lyle won the British Open while Alain Prost triumphed in the Formula One championship and Manchester United beat Everton to lift the FA Cup.
Sports in Huddersfield took on a more unusual aspect with this lawn mower race. Holmfirth Round Table chairman Trevor Coldwell is pictured about to start the great Lawn Mower Grand Prix at ‘Sands Hatch’ in Holmfirth. Twenty drivers entered the races at the Sands recreation ground to raise money for Holme Valley charities.
