Marching to a different political beat

Recalling 2002, 1992, and 1982

Amassive CND march took place in New York in 1982 with more than 750,000 people in Central Park demanding an end to nuclear weapons, with Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt among performers at the rally. And Northern Europe’s largest man-made lake was formed in Northumberland as Kieder Valley was flooded to create the reservoir.

Estonia temporarily introduced the Kroon as its currency in 1992, replacing the Russian ruble following the Baltic state’s independence from the Soviet Union. It would later adopt the Euro, and joined the EU in 2004. And the Castlemorton Common Festival was held in the Malvern Hills. The week-long rave led to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which outlawed gatherings playing music with “repetitive beats”.

In 2002, the Rochdale Canal, crossing the Pennines, reopened throughout for leisure traffic. And in Scotland the Falkirk Wheel boat lift opened, making canal travel across the country possible by linking the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.