General Chat

1956
SPRING HILL NOVASCOTIA

Colin
t'other C have a good-di mate

9/11 i was at work working as a trainee pharmacy technician

Diana i had just got out of bed when i turned tv on and saw the news

I was playing kick the can outside our local pub when Kennady died. I was in my bedroom when my dad (nearly in tears) came to tell me Jim Reeves had died
Janet

Cyclone Tracy, that ripped apart Darwin on xmas eve 1974, was at home of course,
and so my sister Tracy, boy did we give to her
for being bad tempered.

9/11...........I used To work for a Bus tour company. I was at Flinders National Park ,South australia,Australia . When a stranger came to tell us. We had alot of Americans on our tour. It wasn't till 2days later we saw the footage on a small t.v. in islated petrol station. and the they didn't have latest newspaper coverage in stock.

Elvis........ I was a toddler.But I have been listen to his c.ds for weeks now

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Hi Valerie - fancy you being in Abergavenny on the day of 9/11 !!!
My favourite stamping ground, Abergavenny - used to go every Tuesday with my lovely OH - I was in the Principality Building Society when I first got a hint of it! It's such a small place we must have passed each other! Ain't it a small world

Diana I was home pregnant with my middle child.
The Marchioness was a shocker for me as it was the night I arrived in England.
my friends had picked me up from the airport in the early hours of the morning and decided to drive me through "town" past some tourist spots.
We drove over the Thames and there were police and boats everywhere as they hunted for people in the water...
9/11 I was getting my eldest ready for school and watching on TV.
I went to the cowshed to get my husband and I remember thinking oh boy shes all on now In terms of world security.
I

9/11 at work heard it on the radio put the telly on when i got home couldnt believe what i was seeing

7/7 at home, sister lives in london trying to phone her all morning networks where down, finally she phoned she had been on the underground at the time and been evacuated supposed to get on the bus decided to walk to work instead, she had a guardian angel that day


Dianas death . in bed MIL phoned early in the moring and said diana had been in an accident put the telly on,
saw the boys being taken to sunday service by the Queen and my heart broke for them,
went on holiday the next day to spain my mum spent all week crying and the Spanish kept saying so sorry about your beautiful princess, watched the funeral in a bar in Blanes.

Elvis on holiday at in sussex i was making tea and the radio was on in the caravan i was 11 at the time my mum told me to turn up the radio as they where playing Elvis songs when they said he had died she spent all week in the TV room crying , she kept every newspaper clipping.

princess di..i heard about it cause hubby was workin for a news paper company he phoned to say hed be late cause they were goin to reprint was totally shocked!!!


9/11 was feedin friends 14month old an watchin sky news was awful,kept the news channel on all day an night!!.still upsets me now wen i see clips

JFK - Living in South Ascot, my Mum crying but I didn't understand

Woolwich pub bombing - Had walked past the pub earlier that day for an anti-natal appointment

Diana - Living in London, got up in the morning, turned on the radio and couldn't understand why Capital Radio were playing clasical music

9/11 - On holiday in the Caribbean, OH went to the pool to have a scuba lesson and saw it on tv, we had an awful job getting home. We flew to Miami, then managed to get a flight to Raliegh Durham in Carolina, from there we got a flight to Gatwick, our car was at Heathrow. We just wanted to get accross the Atlantic.

Bali - On holiday in New Zealand with family, next stop Bali for a 5 day holiday before coming home, managed to get to Singapore instead.

Always worry about holidays now!

9/11 Anne of Green Gables I too was shopping in Abergavenny (Market day) when we saw the pictures on the telly in a shop window and then went back to car to listen on the radio. Could have seen you !!! It was also my birthday.

Aberfan. Was living in London then and was coming home for the weekend to visit mum and dad and they told me as I came off the train. Both my father and grandfather attended Pantglas school in Aberfan so they knew it and still had family living there. Was so distressing for them.

Diana's funeral was the day of my younger's daughter's wedding. After the news that she had died that is all my daughter worried about her funeral being on the Saturday. I tried to reassure her that they never held royal funerals on Saturdays. She spent the morning getting ready for her wedding watching it and crying.

I remembered another one.
The Harrod's bomb.
I was working in Grosvenor House, Park Lane at the time, it was early afternoon and heard it - a deep BOOM - we knew what it was straight away but thought it must be in Oxford Street as it sounded so close.
K

Lady Diana---in bed recovering from getting back of holiday in early hours, also daughters birthday. spent all day crying....

Elvis- in italy, in hospital, after drunken driver knocked us off motorbike, while touring europe, there was a telly in the ward.

Birmingham bombings-had been to brum earlier that day, so just missed that.

9/11 first heard on car radio, when going home from work.

Dunblain-- In the dentist. he had to cancel my appointment as I got to upset...

JFK-- In my bedroom, my brother came and told me, and I got upset about that, dont know why?? as I was very young...!!

Abervan-- at school, was very sad, as we were a big mining town then, most of the children were my age then......

Dont like to think of London bombings as my son has gone to live and work down there.with strict instruction to contact me straight away if anything 'kicks off' (just to let me know hes safe)

cmd

I was very young during the Aberfan disaster so cannot remember anything about it. I have watched a few documentaries about it and they bring me to tears every time. My childrens Headmistresss was a survivor of Aberfan. My Dad was one of the helpers that helped clear for the rescue. It must have been heartbreaking for them to see.

Alyson

Diana's death - woke up early as taking kids on trip to chessington World of Adventure.

Death of Elvis - on first holiday abroad - in Italy with student nurse friends

Dumblane - doing computer course

9/11 - travelling home on bus after work study day

Free Enterprise - at home , on maternity leave, after giving birth to eldest daughter

Kath

Moorgate and Kings Cross two more disasters to add to the list, the murder of Lord Mountbatton on a bank holiday Monday if I recollect and the bombing of the hotel in Brighton when the IRA attempted to murder half the cabinet including Prime Minister Thatcher.....When you come to think we Brits are still a very resilliant people as we just bounce back at what the world chucks at us

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Now then

Elvis death ...on holiday in the caravan

9/11 had taken my daughter to the sports center for trampoline lessons

7/7...shopping

London bomds in Hyde park .....I was in London and felt it ...I remember vets rushing to the park as they were trying to get people to take them ......

Lady Di ....my son woke me up to tell me she was dead and what would happen to her children

.......nearly forgot the London bombings......I tried to get hold of my son because he is always up in that area, and I couldn't contact him........checked with the bank, and he was there......the person he was due to see had cancelled the appointment for that day.....relief.....but poor people....

With Princess Diana......I switched on the telly in the early hours because I could not sleep, it was the anniversary of the date of my Mum's funeral the year before........the shock was dreadful and I woke OH and we stayed awake from then.....

With Lockerbie, we were watching the telly when it came on .....

The Marchioness, Thames boat that hit the bridge and sank.......spending the weekend with Mum and Dad in Cornwall.....

9/11......OH phoned from work and told me to put on CNN......I phoned my Dad, but he wanted to talk about something else....I watched in horror as the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower and the first tower fell, then the 2nd......it seemed like an American movie....

Diana's death - I was loading a pile of washing into the machine when it came on the news - I remember the TV being on all day and not much else being done at home.

Aberfan - I remember my mum, crying and crying - I was at junior school at the time and I remember her hugging me and crying.

9/11 - at work - driving home that afternoon with Radio 4 and all the other drivers on the M2 driving slowly and everyone looked blank. I had to phone my ex-husband as soon as I arrived home as he was living in New York. I remember my son ringing me from Slough that evening worrying like mad about his dad as the phone lines were all down. I remember the early TV footage with people jumping from the windows. I still hurt when I think about that.

Kings Cross fire - on the underground?

Moorgate? That will test a few memories but that was like yesterday for me as I knew someone involved. I remember my father crying. Not something I ever want to remember. I still can't use tube trains - still find it difficult.

Kennedy? I was a bit too young.

The London bombings? Can't think about them.

Jill