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What was the first major news story you remember as a child
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I remember the minors strikes and IRA bombings... Callaghan being PM and Carter US President I may have even been in the US still when he was elected... Possibly,but remember them both being on the news here |
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"I remember the minors strikes and IRA bombings... Callaghan being PM and Carter US President I may have even been in the US still when he was elected... Possibly,but remember them both being on the news here"
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I vaguely remember the Iranian embassy story but the oldest and most vivid news story that I remember is the Bradford stadium fire.
Unless you count a Liverpool Echo news article that called me a computer whizz kid  |
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Probably Jamie Bulger. I remember watching it with my mum. He was the same age as my little brother which seemed to make it that bit more heartbreaking. |
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The Toxteth riots of 1981 I remember happening, but not from the news. I remember standing on the shore and watching a couple of fires burn over in the distance in Liverpool one roasting hot night. We'd seen riots on the news but that was in London and felt very remote. Watching it happen somewhere I knew felt far more immediate. |
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Ealing Rail Crash, 1973.
I remember it well, because I was only 5 and it was time for bed, but I wanted to watch the news.
My parents basically said, if you want to be a big boy and stay up a little later you can, but you must watch the news and learn about the world.
Thus began my love affair from a very early age with Panorama, News At Ten, and other current affairs programs.
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"Princess Diana. I think I was about 4 or 5 but I remember my mum being quite upset over it."
I'm old enough to b your grandmother! She is 28 today it was her 4th birthday on the day of Diana's death! X |
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"When I thought to myself that my toys would start coming alive after watching Toy Story"
When was that a major news story then ???????
Elvis leaving the building!!
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Probably the Clapham Junction rail crash. Think it stuck in my mind as it wasn't that far from us and I remember for years after whenever we got on a train past the spot they reduced speed as a mark of respect.
Probably around the same time was the Lockerbie disaster and Berlin Wall coming down |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 "
At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it. |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."
ay ay was drummed into us at school you won't see it in your lifetime with Scotland |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."
It is perfectly possible to have very vivid memories because I can tell you exactly where I was , what I was wearing and other details when I saw the the Hillsborough Disaster on my 6th birthday and I even remember shouting to my mum "look mum there is naughty people on the pitch, she came to look and said "they aren't naughty, something is very wrong"
Not everybody's brain works in the same way and some of us can recall very distant memories very vividly. |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it.ay ay was drummed into us at school you won't see it in your lifetime with Scotland "
we only go for the Party. |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."
My first remembered memory was earlier than the earliest news story I remember.
The news story I mentioned above was from when I was 7, and I still remember that night. Not because I was told about it later, but because the memory is still there in a fair amount of detail.
I don't think it's so unbelievable that someone would remember something major that happened when they were 6. |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."
I have very vivid memories from my first day at school quite detailed and an earlier one of my 3rd birthday not quite so vivid but nonetheless a memory x |
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"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…"
Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol  |
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"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…
Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol "
You're not old!
Some of these peeps are just really young.
We've got experience  |
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"Me England winning the world Cup in 66 "
Ooh good question busman...
I can remember being gathered in the school hall and they wheeled that big black and white TV in so we could watch the moon landing... Didn't really ever think of it as news at the time as I was more interested in what was up Nicolas skirt at the time... I have never thought of it again until now.
Vaguely remember the Mexico world Cup and Bobby moores arrest and Gordon Banks save
And of course the troubles in Northern Ireland. |
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"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…
Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol "
You don’t look a day over 21  |
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"My first one was the Berlin Wall coming down in '99. I was only 5 and knew it was a big deal at the time"
It was 89 but what's 10 years between friends.
I remember that vividly too. |
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"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…
Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol
You don’t look a day over 21 "
I wish lol |
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"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…
Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol
You're not old!
Some of these peeps are just really young.
We've got experience "
I was only joking with T he’s plenty of life experience himself |
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The one that always stuck in my mind was when the SAS were in the balcony of the Iranian embassy and you see John McAleese move just in time then boom.
Nothing had been seen on live TV like it before and as a boy it inspired me. |
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"Me too!
I remember crying when the news reporter said Elvis was dead.
His music was always playing in our house when I was little.
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Newspaper front page him in the coffin |
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The miners strike and how that witch thatcher and her thugs dealt with the men also I remember the challenger space shuttle disaster but the one that sticks most is the Hillsborough disaster I remember sat in my grandads watching it unfold and even as a ten year old knowing it was bad |
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July 20th 1969
I was almost 15 had a paper round and was trying to put the Express through a letter box I had to refold and noticed the headline, American had landed on the moon
I can't say I remember much from tv news, although I did have an appt with a nice young lady for some ( paid fun) and she wasn't ready as she glued to the twin towers coming down |
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I remember being told about Abefan when I started primary school (it had happened the year earlier). There was a terrible fire at the Broomielaw (in Glasgow) and a lot of people died. My Dad knew a fireman who tackled the fire. Then I have a horrible memory from 1971 and instead of Dr Who on a Saturday at teatime.. watching TV as news of the Ibrox Disaster came through (I was seven years old).
Later that year some schoolkids from Edinburgh died in the Cairngorms and only one wee boy of one party lived... all the others had wrapped themselves around him to try to keep him warm. They all died.
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