General Chat

Can you remember where you were at the time of some our worst recent disasters:

9/11- on holiday came back half way through coverage and thought it was a disaster movie

7/7 - packing for a holiday

Death of Pricess Diana - working at Tesco...it was deserted

Lockerbie - Watching TV

Herald of Free Enterprise - Tv again

1974 Birmingham pub bombs - doing my school homework but the evening before we had been at the cinema next door and had been evacuated due to a bomb hoax and had sheltered in the entrance of the pub as it was raining

you have a good memory colin ..

its a shame I only remember the bad events, I suppose they get more attention from the media and stick in your mind

9/11 - On Holiday

Death of Princess Di.- feeding my 3 week old baby when it came on the news.

Can't remember what I was doing when the others happened.

Karen x

Death of Princess Di.- I WAS AT THE DUMP

9/11 Watching TV

Lockerbie - waiting for my chips in the chippy and it was broadcast on thier little tv.

Princess Diana - feeding my little girl her breakfast.

9/11 - In a shop looking for a dolls house for daughter for xmas.

7/7 - On internet chat room!!!

9/11 - at work. I work in a nursing home and can even remember which resident's room I was in.

7/7 - on a residential course (work again!!)

Princess Diana - work again on night duty so watched as it all unfolded.

Princess Diana.........son woke us to tell us news

9/11.....same as colin thought daughter was watching movie on telly.

Herald of Free Enterprise living in Germany and on road home...............missed Ferry............rest is history.

Lockerbie sitting in squadren bar with friend who lived there.dreadful day.

I was sitting watching Tv late one night when it came over about Diana.

9/11 I was cooking and looked through at the tv, I thought it was a film clip.

The Dumblane shooting's I had a friend here for cofffee on afternoon,how sad.

When Elvis died, I thought it was great hearing all his song's on the radio, then I burst into tears when I found out why.

Marion

Ooh had forgotten Elvis, I was working in the co-op next to the record department who then played his records non stop.

Dunblane - running the village shop and fiddling around in the stockroom when the news broke

Death of Diana .......... At home and friend telephoned to tell me

9/11........... at work and it was the quietest afternoon we had ever had ( bank )

7/7 .............. sat in my Dad's sorting through my Mum's paperwork, she had passed just a few weeks earlier

Elvis............... sat watching cartoons when Mum said " You'll never guess who's died" I replied
" Steven " ( my cousin ) cus he had fallen off his skateboard the day before

Dumblane............... sat on a beach in Tenerife

how could i forget Elvis..............kids budgie died same day and we had to bury it...............all in tears and someone asked was i crying because of Elvis?

Jessie pmsl at your cousin.

Mac..clip round the lug for you lol

Still here

Aberfan - working as a secretary in J R Freeman, Cigar Manufacturers in Cardiff - news came through that 12 people had been killed and I remember my boss poo pooing the news saying it must have been exaggerated!! By the time we left work the awful news was out that well over a hundred had died, mostly children

Princess Diana - I was at home when my husband rang me from Scotland - he was with Pendyrus Male Choir doing a tour of Scotland - the tour was cancelled and they all came home

9/11 - shopping in Abergavenny with my husband - heard people talking about something but didn't know what - then on the way home heard it all on the car radio
and arrived home to see the horrendous pictures on TV

JFK - living in rented accommodation not long after we were married when the news came on - we had a really small TV which had been given to us - after the news was broadcast the screen went blank and stayed that way for quite some time - only BBC then, no other channels

Marion

I cried cus I worshipped my cousin Steven............. I was so glad when Mum said Elvis lol

it was dreadful wasn't it Mac - I worked for 28 years at our local psychiatric hospital and there are still people in there who survived the disaster but too traumatised to recover - what angered me then and still does now is that the government took money out of the disaster fund to cover the cost of flattening the coal tip that slid on to the school and killed everyone - had the tip slipped five minutes earlier the children would have been outside in the playground - they had just gone into class

9/11 - in casualty with my husband

7/7 - in casualty with my son!

Dianas death - in bed just pregnant with eldest & going to 2 Christenings that day.

Dianas funeral - at a wedding

lol,Mac and Jessie

Aberfan to, I was just wee at the time but I remember seeing it