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By *hief Scout OP Man 22 weeks ago
Wild Border Country of Herts & Middx/West London ! |
I ask this as tomorrow is the 50th Anniversary of the Moorgate Tube crash, and over the last couple of afternoons there has been a superb play on Radio 4.
So, what's your earliest recollection of a big news story ? (I'm not thinking of an 'ongoing' situation, such as the I.R.A. in the 1970's, they seemed to be on the news practically every night - more of a "one off" event).
The "Moorgate" play was well worth a listen, was broadcast on Radio 4 at 2.15pm yesterday and today (45 mins each) if you want go find it on 'catch up' |
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Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻 |
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"Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻 "
I tell bollocks/a lie.
Watching Nadia Comaneci in Montreal 1976 brought a tear to my eye. The musiiiiiic OMG 🥹🥹🥹🥹 all the floor performance was magic!
I was 3 years old. |
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Manchester IRA bombing around a similar time to Princess Diana dying.
There were probably earlier ones but those two stand out. My step dad was working in the city centre when the IRA bomb happened so everyone was talking about it. |
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By *abluesbabyMan 22 weeks ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
"Manchester IRA bombing around a similar time to Princess Diana dying.
There were probably earlier ones but those two stand out. My step dad was working in the city centre when the IRA bomb happened so everyone was talking about it. "
I was in the Manchester bomb attack in 1992. Myself and a couple of mates were very slightly injured by shrapnel. |
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By *B..Woman 22 weeks ago
Wiltshire |
"The Queen's Silver Jubilee and the death of Elvis in 1977"
These stand out for me as well, street party’s and Elvis songs playing all the time, a few years later the Iranian Embassy siege |
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"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off
This makes me feel old!  "
Dont think this will make it better...
I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦♂️) |
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"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off
This makes me feel old!
Dont think this will make it better...
I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦♂️)"
lol this whole thread make us feel old |
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Newsflash of the Birmingham pub bombings. Nov 74. I was 15 months old.
I always had this vivid image in my head of a local reporter and a destroyed building. Never had anything to connect it to until I was at my parents house, they had the news on and they did a segment about the 20th anniversary - and there was my memory on the screen as they replayed the news story from either that night or the day after. |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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Them horrible fucking inhumane bastards killing that poor youngin James bulger I can still remember seeing the photo of him being led off holding one of their hands like it was yesterday |
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"I remember the Yorkshire ripper search being on the news "
Oh this was big news. We weren’t allowed out on a night to play because of him. I saw this on the lunchtime news befor crown court. I must have been off school |
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"Queens jubilee
Death of elvis
Birth of Louise Brown (1st test tube baby)
Falklands
Margaret thatcher elected
Space shuttle challengers maiden flight
I was informed by John craven at that age "
John Craven!!! There's a memory!
Falklands for me too. |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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1966 World Cup
Gordon Banks,Bobby and Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore etc.
Next significant event.
Munich Disaster 1968.
I had just turn 10 years old. |
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"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off
This makes me feel old!
Dont think this will make it better...
I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦♂️)"
I was 12 I got home from school and my mum had the news on. I thought she was watching a disaster movie at first, was surreal. |
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By *zeroMan 22 weeks ago
Glasgow |
Eric Cantona kicking a fan
Mad Cow disease
Princess Diana's death. That one was the most vivid. I remember watching cartoons on and a breaking news banner appeared on screen telling you to change the channel |
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"End of the Vietnam War.
I was 8, but you know what?
I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say."
My memory of that was seeing grainy images of loads of people, some carrying luggage, trying to clamber onto helicopters hovering at the top of a building. It wasn't until quite a bit later I learned that was the fall of Saigon. |
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A few
1: Aberfan disaster - that is when I started to read the daily newspaper and still do even to this day. Some really sad graphic black and white photos of the devastation.
2: Shooting of JFK Nov 63. I had seen him and Jackie the previous June in their cavalcade, when he visited Ireland.
3: Moon landing July 69. Our dog gave birth the same day so I named the pups - Apollo, Buzz, Michael and Neil.
4: The end of the Berlin Wall. I was living in Holland at the time and was booked to go in two weeks time to do the tour - Checkpoint Charlie etc. So I went to a remote part of West Donegal instead.
Whilst at a filling station an East Berlin Trabant car pulled in for fuel.
Once the owners - a young couple - realised that they really were free to travel they headed west.
They kept going until the were as far west as they could get and see the Atlantic Ocean. I spent quite a while talking to them - even to experience some of the buzz they had, was simply amazing.
We don't realise how important freedom is
5: First video footage from the wreck of the Titanic.
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"Death of Elvis - I was stood on a tree trunk next to a corn field. I have a vague recollection that something was on fire.
Aug 1977.
I was 7 years old
I wonder how I knew 🤔🤔🤔 radio maybe? "
Maybe the reaction of adults .. people openly cried in steer where I was … I remember that |
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The US and UK bombing Saddam's Iraq because he refused to let UN inspectors into the country. I remember that.
The one I was completely clued to the TV for however was 9/11. I was off sick from school that day. |
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"End of the Vietnam War.
I was 8, but you know what?
I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say.
My memory of that was seeing grainy images of loads of people, some carrying luggage, trying to clamber onto helicopters hovering at the top of a building. It wasn't until quite a bit later I learned that was the fall of Saigon."
The helicopters taking off from the top of the Embassy.
I'm still not sure if I remember it live or not. |
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"End of the Vietnam War.
I was 8, but you know what?
I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say."
I've never been to Vietnam but I have been to Cambodia. Seen the impact of the Khmer Rouge Regime, same time they took power was when the Vietnam War ended. Brutal and horrific. What a brutal decade it was for South East Asia. |
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By *VANDYMan 22 weeks ago
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Elvis for me too but I didn’t know who he was, probably because I was only 9 and he’d pretty much had it by then. Anyway I was on a school camp and I thought all the teachers were talking about Elton John. 🤷♂️ |
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I probably should remember earlier events, but the one that comes to mind is Dunblane. Then later that year it was the machete attack at St Luke's School. My mum was afraid to let me walk to school alone the next day until they caught him. |
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"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off
This makes me feel old! "
Me too. I heard the news on the radio 5am as I was breastfeeding my second baby. |
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By *yresMan 22 weeks ago
Midland town |
Listening to my transitor radio under the blankets in bed, when there was a news flash, announcing that two Boeing 747's Jumbo jets had crashed into each other at tenerife airport, 77 I think!.... |
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"Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻 "
Falklands. Not malvinas. |
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I was 5 and watching the news about a war ending. I was really confused because I didn't think we were at war, though I was aware one had ended ages ago with the Germans and grandad fought in that. Then my parents explained it was an American War. But not in America. Which made me even more confused.
But they were good and explained everything slowly. 1973. End of Vietnam War.
I was lucky, as the deal was I was allowed to stay up past my bed time, IF and only IF, I sat quietly and watched the adult news. I was allowed to ask questions at the end.
It's probably why I'm such a news junkie and loved watching all the documentaries and current affairs, from a very early age. |
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"Thst oil rig fire in 80s. Pipe alpha I think it was called "
I used to work in the industry. Horrific accident and so many needless deaths.
Thankfully as a result emergency shut off valves were installed on sub sea pipelines.
The subsequent Lord Cullen report was an amazing read and a brilliant piece of investigative work - first time I ever read such a document. He pulled no punches. "Appalling negligence of the owners and operators" - I have never forgotten that sentence.
Some of the human family stories that surfaced after this accident make for very sad reading. |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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Canary Wharf bombing would be my earliest memory of a news story I can still picture the windows blown out and the utter devastation. Most significant would be the World Trade Centre attack, I was just walking out of it when the first plane hit, obviously thought it was an accident and then seeing the second one hit just brought a terror I hope to never experience again.
I wish it was good news stories that came to mind first but unfortunately not th eway the mind works |
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Ben Johnson being caught cheating at the 88 Olympics - we were following the Olympics as a class project in junior school. I'm sure there must have been other things but that's the earliest I remember as meaning something to me.
I'm often surprised by how little I remember from my childhood compared to others. My memory seems to work better on things/information/numbers etc than experiences for some reason. Memories before teenage years are limited, even secondary school I remember stuff like being taught the mnemonic Two Old Angels Skipped Over Heaven Carrying A Harp for trigonometry (and what it means/how to use it) better than much else that happened that year. Possibly fancying my maths teacher may have something to do with it although I cannot recall her face, but can picture her black Mini car. I'm not sure my head is entirely normal.
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"Jimmy Carter getting elected for the first time.
I feel old  "
To be honest most of my childhood memories regarding news either IRA bombing related or some form of strikes or riots related to strikes and/or unemployment |
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"Death of Elvis - I was stood on a tree trunk next to a corn field. I have a vague recollection that something was on fire.
Aug 1977.
I was 7 years old
I wonder how I knew 🤔🤔🤔 radio maybe? "
That was mine too… I recall seeing the newspaper sign/ banner? The sign in a stand with wire over the paper
It just said “Elvis Dead”
I do remember it was at a holiday camp in wales somewhere |
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Martin Luther King assassination closely followed by Robert Kennedy assassination.
I remember the moorgate crash my dad was on his way to work, travelling on the tube that day when it happened.
Ever since then I've always thought the tube was a death trap. |
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"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.
I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?"
That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress |
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"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.
I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress"
That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her. |
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"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.
I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress
That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her."
My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10 |
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"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.
I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress
That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her.My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10"
I didn't know there was a book. |
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"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.
I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress
That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her.My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10
I didn't know there was a book. "
Yes, I think it was just called the black panther. Funnily enough I can't remember his real name. This was 50 years ago |
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Apart from making me feel old, these threads always amuse me, those people who forget they have doctored the age on their profiles and then reminiscing about events in their childhood that took place years 4 or 5 years before they were born  |
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"Apart from making me feel old, these threads always amuse me, those people who forget they have doctored the age on their profiles and then reminiscing about events in their childhood that took place years 4 or 5 years before they were born "
This always makes me laugh |
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I remember my mum and aunt discussing something about the common market vote with my aunt’s neighbour and Britain entered in 1973 when I was 3 years old so I guess something around that time.
Plus the three day week and electricity going off and using candles. That was about 1973-4 I believe.
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I remember the silver jubilee in 77.
I remember the power cuts and the bread shortages in the winter of discontent.
I remember Pope John Paul II travelling in the popemobile.
I remember Liverpool FC winning something and an open top bus, but really, I was more taken by the police horses that went past the house. |
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By (user no longer on site) 21 weeks ago
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"I remember crying when Diana Dors died
I was just 14 - I think all the clues were there, even then, that I might grow up fancying blokes as well as women "
I recently saw a horror film with her in called 'children of the full moon' ..which I thought was pretty good. |
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By (user no longer on site) 19 weeks ago
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"1966 World Cup
Gordon Banks,Bobby and Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore etc.
Next significant event.
Munich Disaster 1968.
I had just turn 10 years old."
recap: Munich I was ten when I learnt about it. I was about a month old when it happened. |
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By *orcsmatMan 19 weeks ago
Kidderminster |
I know I went to the queen's coronation party and watched it on the TV my dad bought with part of a pools win.
But it could be false memories from photos of the event. I was 4.
But I do remember a heated debate in school for the 1963 general election when Harold Wilson won as Labour leader.
I was the only one in class rooting for the Conservatives.
Later watching Winston Churchill s funeral on TV. |
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The Aberfan disaster I'd be nearly 8 and it was the first thing " not local " I remember .
Watching the miners with their lamps digging for the kids , lived in a mining area and my first job was in the pit . |
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