When indeed did the 'swinging sixties' begin...?

Question

...and end in the UK - and was London 'swinging' with the same determination on, say, Streatham High Road (or indeed High Street, Harlesden) as it did within a 3 mile radius of Sloane Square at the height of it all...or were parts of the capital that were deemed 'not sexy enough', excluded?

Nice one, rdenig. And Jessy...you're a mad booger (welcome to Answers)!
. Was wondering when the 'swinging (nineteen) sixties' became 'swingeing' - was it perhaps Enoch Powell's endearment to London dockers in April 1968 that ended it, with his racist dirge (rolling out his sense of 'patriotism' to get the naive sweating with anger) or maybe Harold Wilson's choice to devalue the pound the same year? It may be argued the sixties (in central London) ended at around 1968 - but as late as the mid-seventies in some other parts of the UK...and perhaps the other end of the Fulham Road. Could be the much discussed decade has different endings depending on what sort of life we lived...

Answer 1

They started in about 1964 and ended probably about 1971. And, no, Streatham High Road nor Harlesden High Street swung like central London, although things like clothes shops began to sell ready made fashions apeing those of London. Really, things in the suburbs went on much as before, except men (like me) began to get very daring and wear pink shirts and safari suits and grow our hair long and our girl friends wore mini-skirts and we both listened to 60s music.

Remember the expression 'the swinging sixties' was a press invention, much like Blair's 'cool Britannia'. However, there is no doubt that things did change quite significantly over the decade.

Answer 2

Yes the locations are correct .From :62-63 it all took off .I dont think it ever stopped (well no one told me )Dont remember much of it so I must have been there .Cheers man""""

Answer 3

is this like a trick question?
i am confused.
or were u alive in 1860's maybe that was Rocking sixties?