It's true that a cricket pitch (wicket to wicket) is 22 yards or a chain, but I only noticed the latter later in life, I always think of it as "22 yards" rather than "one chain".
The whole thing stinks to me of pandering to people who think of the "good old days" and that life in 1955 was perfect whereas today it's dreadful.
I don't subscribe to this in any way, my life is immeasurably better today than it was in the past, and that continues, even though I get older and I suffer from illness as a result, or whatever. Life is about looking forward and thinking about how to make things better for everyone, and not about looking back and moaning about how good things used to be. Which they weren't.
I have no idea about how good or otherwise life in the 1950's was (as it was just a little time before I was even born. However I am fairly sure that I don't want to go back to some past time, as there would almost certainly be issues that I was unaware of.
I like maths and playing with numbers and whilst a base 12 system makes more sense than a base 10 for things like dividing between 2, 3, 4, and 6 (opposed to 2 & 5), Imperial systems appear to change the number each step 16ths, 12 inches, 3 feet, etc. and so make little sense.
Of course I suspect that most teachers, unless forced to teach it, would want to keep it simple and only teach SI units so that teaching science wasn't too much of a change. As such being it back will be pointless and actually make little difference to most people.
Of course, if it were brought back wholesale, the one thing for certain would be companies would take advantage of the change to put up prices (one of the things which people were upset about the previous changes!).