1957 in the United Kingdom

none May 2020 January 2013 1957 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1957 British Grand Prix 1957 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1957 in British television 1957 in British radio 1957 in British music Events from the year 1957 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister - Anthony Eden (Conservative) (until 10 January), Harold Macmillan (Conservative) (starting 10 January) Events 1 January – Sexual Offences Act 1956 (a consolidation of the English criminal law) comes into effect. 9 January – Resignation of Anthony Eden as Prime Minister due to ill health.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2800000/2800833.stm Sir Anthony Eden resigns BBC News 2007-12-04 9 January 1957 https://web.archive.org/web/20080112121017/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2800000/2800833.stm 12 January 2008 live 10 January – Harold Macmillan succeeds Anthony Eden as Prime Ministerhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/10/newsid_3783000/3783251.stm Macmillan becomes Prime Minister BBC News 2007-12-04 10 January 1957 through "the customary processes of consultation".Roth Andrew Andrew Roth 1972 Heath and the Heathmen https://archive.org/details/heathheathmen0000roth registration London Routledge and Kegan Paul 0-7100-7428-X 173 16 January Royal Ballet granted a Royal Charter.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club. 24 January – Sunday Express newspaper editor John Junor is called to the Bar of the House of Commons to be reprimanded for contempt of Parliamenthttps://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1957/jan/23/committee-of-privileges-second-report Committee of Privileges (Second Report) (Hansard, 23 January 1957) api.parliament.uk – the last non-politician to be so called. January The first operational Avro Vulcan strategic V bomber enters service with the Royal Air Force, at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.Crosby Francis The Complete Guide to Fighters & Bombers of the World London Anness Publishing 2006 978-1-84476-917-9 289 National Trust for Scotland agrees to accept the bequest of the islands of St Kilda.http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame1.htm St Kilda National Trust for Scotland 2010-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20100831172220/http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame1.htm 31 August 2010 live February – Norwich City Council becomes the first British local authority to install a computer (an Elliott 405).Our Computer Heritage http://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/ Computer Conservation Society 4 March 2012 2012-04-07 11 February – East Midlands earthquake.10.1038/179507a0 Dollar A. T. J. 1957 The Midlands earthquake of February 11, 1957 Nature 179 507–510 4558 1957Natur.179..507D 4186065 16 February – The "Toddlers' Truce" (an arrangement whereby there have been no television broadcasts between 18:00–19:00 to allow parents to put their children to bed) is abolished. 22 February – The Queen grants her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the style and title of a Prince of the United Kingdom. 6 March – The Northern Territories protectorate and British Togoland are annexed to the Crown, which territories together with Ashanti and Gold Coast become Ghana which is independent of the United Kingdom.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515459.stm Ghana celebrates independence BBC News 2007-12-04 6 March 1957 https://web.archive.org/web/20080113184400/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515459.stm 13 January 2008 live 13 March – The Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1948 expires. 21 March – Homicide Act amends the common law offence of murder in English law by introducing the partial defences of diminished responsibility and suicide pact, reforming the partial defence of provocation, and largely abolishing the doctrine of constructive malice; it also restricts the application of the death penalty to aggravated murder (creating a new offence of capital murder), allowing commutation of sentence to life imprisonment in other cases. It is no longer a requirement for the Attorney General to prosecute poisoning cases in person. 1 April – The BBC's Panorama current affairs programme presented by Richard Dimbleby broadcasts a spaghetti tree hoax report purporting to show spaghetti being harvested in Switzerland, believed to be the first April Fool's Day joke on television.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm BBC fools the nation BBC News 2007-12-04 1 April 1957 4 April – 1957 Defence White Paper presented by Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, introduces major cuts in conventional land and air forces.Defence: The Outline of Future Policy. Cmd.124. 10 April – Royal Court Theatre (London) premieres John Osborne's The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier in the title role.The Daily Express, 10 April 1957, p. 4. 11 April – The UK Government agrees to allow Singapore its independence.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/newsid_2828000/2828903.stm Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule BBC News 2007-12-04 11 April 1957 15 April – Suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is controversially found not guilty at the Old Bailey after Britain's longest murder trial. Political interference is suspected.Pamela Cullen Stranger in Blood: the case files on Doctor John Bodkin Adams 2006 20 April – Manchester United retain the Football League First Division title with a 4–0 win over Sunderland.Manchester United retains English soccer supremacy https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l6pUAAAAIBAJ&pg=6356,3723008&dq=manchester-united&hl=en Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan 22 April 1957 2012-12-10 19 24 April – The first broadcast of BBC Television astronomy series The Sky at Night, presented by Patrick Moore. This will run with him as presenter until his final episode is broadcast on 7 January 2013, one month following his death. 2 May – The Hammer Film Productions' The Curse of Frankenstein is released. 4 May – Aston Villa win the FA Cup for a record seventh time with a 2–1 win over Football League First Division champions Manchester United at Wembley Stadium. Peter McParland scores both of Villa's goals with United's consolation goal coming from Tommy Taylor. The result ends Manchester United's hopes of becoming the first team this century to win the double of the league title and FA Cup.http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1957.htm FA Cup Final 1957 25 March 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080325232822/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1957.htm 25 March 2008 14 May – The end of petrol rationing following the Suez Crisis.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/14/newsid_2511000/2511733.stm Cheers as petrol rationing ended BBC News 2007-12-04 14 May 1957 15 May Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb at Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/15/newsid_2510000/2510335.stm Britain drops its first H-bomb 2007-12-04 15 May 1957 BBC News Stanley Matthews plays his final international football game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years. 21 May – Project E: agreement for the United States to supply Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Britain under US control.Richard Lamb The Macmillan Years 1957–1963 London John Murray 1995 071955392X 284–5 1 June – The first Premium Bond winners are selected by the computer ERNIE. 3 June – The actor and playwright Noël Coward returns to Britain from the West Indies amid criticism that he is living abroad to avoid having to pay tax.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/3/newsid_4433000/4433359.stm Noel Coward comes home BBC News 2013-11-22 3 June 1957 13 June – Eight people are killed in Oxford Street, London after a bus on route 7 collides with a queue of people at a bus stop.Marshall Prince 1972 Wheels of London 124 The Sunday Times Magazine 0-7230-0068-9 26 June – Six miners are killed in Barnburgh Main Colliery after an underground explosion.Report on the causes of, and circumstances attending, the Explosion which occurred at Barnburgh Main Colliery, Barnburgh, in the County of York, on 26th June, 1957 http://www.dmm.org.uk/ukreport/279-03.htm Durham Mining Museum 2016-03-03 27 June – A report by the Medical Research Council reveals that there is evidence to support a link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/27/newsid_2956000/2956618.stm Smoking 'causes lung cancer' BBC News 2007-12-04 27 June 1957 https://web.archive.org/web/20071110015604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/27/newsid_2956000/2956618.stm 10 November 2007 live Late June – The 1957–1958 influenza pandemic ("Asian flu") which has already killed thousands of people worldwide, reaches Britain where it will kill a number estimated at between 20,000 and 33,000.Honigsbaum Mark 2020-06-13 Revisiting the 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics The Lancet 395 10240 1824–1826 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31201-0 0140-6736 32464113 free 7247790 6 July – Future members of The Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney first meet as teenagers at a garden fête at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool at which Lennon's skiffle group The Quarrymen is playing. 20 July Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes a speech to his fellow Conservative Party members at Bedford, telling them that "most of our people have never had it so good".Originally reported by Michael Freedland. https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3728000/3728225.stm Britons 'have never had it so good' 20 July 1957 BBC News 2012-02-13 Civic Trust (England), founded by Duncan Sandys to promote improvement of the built environment, holds its inaugural conference in London. Stirling Moss finishes the British Grand Prix at Aintree in first position in a Vanwall VW5, the first World Championship victory for a British car.http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr061.html Grand Prix Results: British GP, 1957 grandprix.com 2012-07-07 20–28 July – The Transport and General Workers' Union stages a national strike by provincial (non-municipal) bus crews; some violence against non-strikers is reported.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_2943000/2943084.stm Bus dispute turns violent BBC News 2007-12-04 23 July 1957 31 July – The Tryweryn Bill, permitting Liverpool City Council to build a reservoir which will drown the village of Capel Celyn, becomes law. Every Welsh MP votes against (or, in one case, abstains). 5 August – The cartoon character Andy Capp first appears in northern editions of the Daily Mirror. 31 August The Federation of Malaya becomes independent from Britain.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/31/newsid_3534000/3534340.stm Malaya celebrates independence BBC News 2007-12-04 31 August 1957 Central Scotland's ITV channel Scottish Television goes on the air, the first 7-day-a-week ITV franchise to do so. August – The ZETA fusion reactor begins operating at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire. 4 September – Publication of the Wolfenden report, recommending "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence", although it will be a decade before the necessary legislation is passed. The report also proposes stricter laws against street prostitution.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/4/newsid_3007000/3007686.stm Homosexuality 'should not be a crime' BBC News 2007-12-04 4 September 1957 https://web.archive.org/web/20071215085041/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/4/newsid_3007000/3007686.stm 15 December 2007 live 10 September – Tony Lock becomes the last bowler to reach 200 wickets in a first-class season,https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22698.html The Home of CricketArchive cricketarchive.com a feat subsequently impossible due to limited-overs cricket and covered pitches. 1 October 1957–1958 influenza pandemic: The UK introduces a vaccine against the "Asian flu".https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/1/newsid_3086000/3086843.stm British public gets 'Asian Flu' vaccine 1 October 1957 BBC News 10 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090504170518/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/1/newsid_3086000/3086843.stm 4 May 2009 live Deaths from the condition will peak in week ending 17 October at 600 in England and Wales. Which? magazine is first published by The Consumers' Association. 2 October – David Lean's Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai is released. 10 October – Windscale fire: The graphite core of the nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, catches fire, releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/8/newsid_3181000/3181342.stm Inquiry publishes cause of nuclear fire BBC News 2007-12-04 8 November 1957 11 October – Jodrell Bank Observatory becomes operational. 28 October – Today is first broadcast as a daily early-morning topical radio show on the BBC Home Service. It will still be running more than 60 years later. 30 October – The government unveils plans which will allow women to join the House of Lords for the first time.Lords to admit first women peers https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/30/newsid_3116000/3116144.stm BBC News 30 October 1957 2012-02-13 8 November Operation Grapple: First successful (test) explosion of a British hydrogen bomb, at Christmas Island in the Pacific.Arnold Lorna Lorna Arnold Pyne Katherine Britain and the H-bomb Kate Pyne Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York Palgrave 2001 978-0-230-59977-2 753874620 An inquiry into last month's fire at Windscale nuclear power plant blames the accident on a combination of human error, poor management and faulty instruments.Inquiry publishes cause of nuclear fire https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/8/newsid_3181000/3181342.stm BBC News 8 November 1957 2012-02-13 15 November – 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight kills 45. 4 December – The Lewisham rail crash kills 90 and injures 173.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7123687.stm Lewisham rail crash dead honoured BBC News 2007-12-04 2 December 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071203105759/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7123687.stm 3 December 2007 live 10 December – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1957/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957 2007-12-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20071024174224/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1957/ 24 October 2007 live 12 December – Wales gets its own minister of state in the Westminster government for the first time. 25 December – The Royal Christmas Message is broadcast on television with the Queen on camera for the first time. 28 December – A case of foot-and-mouth disease is found at an abattoir in Liverpool.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/28/newsid_3304000/3304747.stm Foot-and-mouth shuts down abattoir BBC News 2007-12-04 28 December 1957 Undated Minting of the sovereign as a bullion piece resumes. The Manchester Guardian newspaper reintroduces a women's page, with Mary Stott as editor.Jan Trott Guardian women's page https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/women-s-page-resource-gnm-archive The Guardian London 2013-11-01 2026-02-08 Publications John Braine's novel Room at the Top. B2FH, an astrophysics paper by British astronomers Geoffrey Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge and Fred Hoyle and American astronomer William Fowler describing the synthesis of the lightest elements through nuclear processes in stars. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4:50 from Paddington. Lawrence Durrell's novel Justine, first of The Alexandria Quartet, and his memoir Bitter Lemons. Ian Fleming's James Bond novel From Russia, with Love. Richard Hoggart's study The Uses of Literacy. Ted Hughes' first collection of poems The Hawk in the Rain. Alistair MacLean's wartime adventure novel The Guns of Navarone. Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning". Evelyn Waugh's novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Bert Weedon's guitar tutorial Play in a Day. John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos. Michael Young and Peter Willmott's sociological study Family and Kinship in East London. Births 4 January – Charles Allen, television magnate 6 January – Michael Foale, astronaut 11 January – Bryan Robson, footballer 15 January – Patrick Dixon, business guru and author 16 January – Mark Pawsey, businessman and politician 17 January – Keith Chegwin, actor and television presenter (died 2017) 22 January – Francis Wheen, English journalist and author 24 January – Adrian Edmondson, comedian and actor 27 January – Janick Gers, heavy metal guitarist 28 January – Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor and television personality 1 February – Kenny Morris, musician (died 2026) 6 February – Matthew Best, conductor and singer (died 2025) 9 February – Gordon Strachan, footballer and manager 10 February – Helen Alexander, businesswoman (died 2017) 13 February – Tony Butler, bass guitarist 19 February – Ray Winstone, actor 22 February – Robert Bathurst, actor 27 February – Timothy Spall, character actor 5 March – Mark E. Smith, singer-songwriter (died 2018) 7 March – Robert Harris, novelist and journalist 10 March Hilary Devey, businesswoman and television personality (died 2022) Barry Gardiner, politician 21 March – Haydn Gwynne, actress (died 2023)Haydn Gwynne, star of stage and screen, dies aged 66 22 March – Michael Mosley, broadcaster and medic (died 2024)Dr Michael Mosley obituary 25 March – Christina Boxer, middle-distance runner 31 March – Alan Duncan, politician 1 April David Gower, cricket player and commentator Stephen O'Brien, lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 3 April – Julia Hills, actress 7 April – Simon Climie, English singer-songwriter (Climie Fisher) 17 April – Nick Hornby, novelist 20 April – Graeme Fowler, English cricketer, coach and sportscaster 23 April – Richard Keys, sport presenter 24 April Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-British Labour Party politicianhttps://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-nazir-ahmed/index.html Mr Nazir Ahmed (Hansard) api.parliament.uk David J, musician, producer, and writer 25 April – Eric Bristow, darts player (died 2018) 29 April – Daniel Day-Lewis, actor 8 May – Eddie Butler, Welsh rugby union player and commentator (died 2022) 10 May Alex Jennings, actor Sid Vicious, born John Ritchie, bassist (Sex Pistols) (died 1979) 13 May Frances Barber, actress Mark Heap, actor 18 May – Constance Briscoe, barrister disbarred and jailed for perverting the course of justicehttps://books.google.com/books?id=bQudJb30gc8C&pg=PT11 Ugly Constance Briscoe 13 November 2008 Hodder & Stoughton 9781848940512 Google Books 21 May Nadine Dorries, politician Tony Hayward, businessman 23 May – Craig Brown, satirist 25 May – Alastair Campbell, journalist 27 May Duncan Goodhew, swimmer Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees) 4 June – Sue Hodge, actress 10 June – Lindsay Hoyle, politician 14 June Debbie Arnold, actress and voice artiste Maxwell Fraser, African-British rapper for Faithless, DJ 15 June – Stephen Lloyd, Kenyan-born English businessman and politicianLloyd, Stephen, (born 15 June 1957), MP (Lib Dem) Eastbourne, since 2017 WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-251155 en 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U251155 978-0-19-954088-4 22 June – Danny Baker, broadcaster and music journalist 5 July – David Hanson, politician 9 July Marc Almond, singer Paul Merton, actor and comedian 11 July Peter Murphy, singer (Bauhaus) Peter Oborne, journalist and broadcaster 15 July – Kate Kellaway, journalist and literary critic 17 July – Fern Britton, television presenter 18 July Nick Faldo, golfer Keith Levene, guitarist (died 2022) 20 July – Paul Daisley, politician (died 2003) 23 July – Jo Brand, comedian 10 August – Michael J. Todd, police officer (died 2008) 17 August – Robin Cousins, figure skater 20 August – Simon Donaldson, mathematician 22 August – Steve Davis, snooker player 24 August – Stephen Fry, comedian, author and actor Rubinstein W. D. The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke 2011 9781403939104 307 25 August – Simon McBurney, actor and director 27 August – Johnny Cunningham, Scottish composer (died 2003) 31 August – Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze singer songwriter 7 September – John McInerney, singer songwriter 8 September – Dave Myers, television presenter (died 2024) 10 September – Mark Naylor, high jumper 12 September – Rachel Ward, actress 13 September – Mal Donaghy, footballer 27 September – John Inverdale, broadcaster 3 October – Tim Westwood, DJ and presenter 7 October – Jayne Torvill, ice skater 11 October Paul Bown, actor Dawn French, comic actor 14 October – Marc Neil-Jones, journalist (died 2025) 15 October – Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish film director 19 October – Karl Wallinger, musician (died 2024) 21 October – Julian Cope, musician and author 3 November – Gary Olsen, actor (died 2000) 13 November Stephen Baxter, science fiction author Alexandra Shulman, journalist 30 November – Colin Mochrie, comedian 6 December – Adrian Borland, English musician and producer (The Sound) (died 1999) 8 December – Phil Collen, singer and guitarist (Def Leppard) 10 December Gerard Bramwell Long, Christian minister, evangelist, author and motivational speaker, previously banking executive Paul Hardcastle, musician 13 December – Gary Davies, disc jockey 20 December Stephen Bicknell, organ builder (died 2007) Billy Bragg, singer 26 December – Dermot Murnaghan, journalist and television presenter (died 2026) Unknown – Jacquie de Creed, stunt woman (died 2011) Dermot Murnaghan, journalist and television presenter (died 2026) Deaths 16 January – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1874) 21 January – Harry Gordon, popular entertainer (born 1893) 9 February – John Axon, railwayman (born 1900) 14 February – Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, diplomat (born 1881) 16 February – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, statesman after whom Belisha beacons are named (born 1893) 7 March – Wyndham Lewis, painter and author (born 1882, Canada) 21 March – Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, philosopher and writer (born 1889) 23 March – Sir Patrick Abercrombie, town planner (born 1879) 21 April – John Graham Kerr, embryologist and politician (born 1869) 17 June – Dorothy Richardson, feminist writer (born 1873) 27 June – Malcolm Lowry, novelist (born 1909) 1 August 1 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)Hay Ann G. Fyleman, Rose (Amy) D.L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Children's Writers London Macmillan 1978 978-0-33323-414-3 485 19 August – David Bomberg, painter (born 1890) 20 August – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer and admiral (born 1880) 1 September – Dennis Brain, horn player (born 1921) 11 September – James Burns, cricketer (born 1866) 29 September – Jane Carr, actress (born 1909) 14 October – Fred Russell, "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism" (born 1862) 20 October – Jack Buchanan, actor, singer and film director (born 1891) Hardy Phil The Da Capo companion to 20th-century popular music Da Capo Press New York 1995 9780306806407 124 2 November – William Haywood, architect (born 1876) 9 December – Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first bishop of Egypt and Sudan (born 1863) 13 December – Michael Sadleir, novelist (born 1888) 17 December – Dorothy L. Sayers, writer (born 1893) 21 December – Eric Coates, composer (born 1886) 31 December – Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions (born 1862) Undated – Michael Arabian (c.1876–1957), playwright and novelist (born c. 1876)Obituary https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109468390/the-guardian/ 13 September 2022 The Guardian 12 September 1957 See also 1957 in British music 1957 in British television List of British films of 1957 References 30em 1957 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1957 by country Category:1950s in the United Kingdom Category:1957 in Europe