Our good friends over at News Biscuit have alerted us to celebrations taking place today to commemorate the 1958 great string shortage.
As a finale to the Easter celebrations, residents of the Isle of Wight are putting finishing touches to preparations for the 50th anniversary of the great string shortage of 1958, when supplies of string almost ran out, leaving local traders in danger of having no means of securing their brown paper parcels.
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