Bojan Scores
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Post by Bojan Scores on Jan 21, 2017 9:11:09 GMT
1976 my earliest memories.
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Post by Villain on Jan 21, 2017 9:57:33 GMT
Like Sam the earliest 'event' I can recall is watching the moon landing in '69, it was just a few weeks after my sister was born which I also recall vividly as she was born at home. I remember sitting on my Mum's bed posing for photos and wondering what all the fuss was about! Earliest actual memory is being in the kitchen with my Mum singing along to The Beatles' 'When I'm Sixty Four' on the radio in the Summer of '67. Apparently I was also a 'witness' to England winning the Wold Cup the year before on the telly, my Dad told me a cried all the way through! Villain
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Post by The Saint on Jan 21, 2017 21:31:38 GMT
16 slips of the digit there Sam. He meant Alec Douglas-Hume. I really meant Jeremy Thorpe! The Saint
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 22, 2017 12:23:20 GMT
For me, the earliest memory of a world event was probably the hot Summer of 1976. I remember at school (year I started) it was too hot for us to play in the sun and we had to sit in classes on big blankets in the shade next to the buildings on the grass before it was our turn to go in the dining room at lunchtime.
I can remember just about what I was doing as far back as 1974 even, as both my dads parents died that year and I remember going to both funerals. (They were in their 40's when they had him in 1937). But I would have had no idea about the energy crisis or the '74 hung parliament in that years UK general election. I do remember both funerals being wet and rainy, my dad hiring an HC Viva to go to his mother's funeral with my family. (Apparently the white car we drove up in, had gearbox problems, so he reported it to the local branch in County Durham, of Godfrey Davis and we came home to Luton in a dark blue 4 door Viva, after the cars were swapped). I remember the funeral cars being black MK4 Zodiacs. Also that year as lives came to an end...... another one started, which was my younger brothers birth in the August.
And... my dad took delivery of a brand new blue Reliant Robin in the November that year, with his parents inheritance, I remember going with him to pick it up at the Luton Reliant dealer, (a purple Scimitar GTE was parked nearby......).
I also remember in '76 a news item in the wake of the US Presidential election that year, on Madam Tussauds where they were removing a waxwork of ex US president Gerald Ford, and replacing him with the Jimmy Carter. So they put in a new dummy........
Also remember Elvis Presley's death after seeing a convoy of white Limos and a white Hearse for a funeral of some bloke, I hadn't heard of. But I soon got to know who he was as shortly after as a tribute during the summer school holidays (might have been the following year in 1978) they put on a different Elvis film every day, and I watched most of them at the time with my mum.
There was of course the Silver Jubilee; the country treated that as a major event at the time, it seemed more so than the Golden one in 2002, (where I was at Enfield Pageant classic car show) and the Diamond one in 2012. We had a party at school I remember. All had to wear red white and blue rosettes pinned to us.
I remember a dismally cold winter in very early 1979, about the time of my birthday and our "third" pint milk bottles we had had where Icy but were like milk shakes! I think the heating wasn't working due to a tanker drivers strike at the time so we got sent home in the snow with some easy homework Yay! Soon did that and went round my next door neighbours house to play as his school had the same problem.
Happy days!
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Post by Batgirl on Jan 23, 2017 13:26:00 GMT
Some of my early recollections are
The Big Freeze of the winter of 1962/3
Very vaguely remember mum saying something bad had happened in America when I was nearly 4, which would have been Kennedy
Churchills funeral being on the telly and me asking who he was
The Vietnam War on the news every night
The Russians occupying Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the student riots in Paris the same year
Oddly, I cant remember England winning the World Cup in 1966
Anyone else? Great topic Cartman. I've had discussions before about what people's earliest memories are but not what famous event/news they recall. I think mine would be the death of Elvis Presley in 1977. The only thing I recall of it, apart from grownups talking about it, is a vivid recollection of the front of the newspaper. There was a photo of his daughter, Lisa Marie with some heading about her losing her Dad, or being a millionaire now. It was (in my memory) a really large pic of a little girl. She is a similar age to me so I think this is what caught my attention and stayed with me. I can't remember any of Elvis' music released or him in the news prior to that. When I read about Elvis now I think Gosh he was only 42.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 23, 2017 14:39:24 GMT
Another news story I remember was the Aberfan disaster in 1966. This upset me as the children were about the same age as I was then, and the school looked very similar to the junior school I was going to.
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Post by Brown Granada on Jun 20, 2017 19:05:42 GMT
Like many have said above I clearly remember the death of Elvis. Went up with my Dad to get a paper and it was the headline. My Dad was quite upset as was a big fan. I also remember the summer of 76 and also the huge amount of ladybirds we were unindated with. Also 76 was the first time I went to America as we have family there, quite a trip for a nine year old. Still though now I can't remember what I did last week.
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Post by John Steed on Jun 20, 2017 19:39:35 GMT
I remember the hot summer of '76. I also clearly remember answering the telephone and it was my Nan, she said "Tell your mom Elvis Presley has kicked the bucket!" I didn't know what she meant! Steed
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Post by Cartman on Jun 21, 2017 12:03:31 GMT
I'll never forget the summer of '76, it was just brilliant. Even more so for me as I was lucky enough to have been 16 then, and as it was the year I did my GCEs, we could finish school as soon as we had taken the last one, which gave us an extra 2 weeks holiday.
So many great memories of that summer, and that year. The music was fantastic and any one of a number of songs from the top 40 from that time will have me back there, in my mind.
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Post by Del Boy on Jun 22, 2017 21:15:28 GMT
I remember the reports on the winter of discontent January 1979 and indeed mini mountains of bin bags in the street on my way to school. First major news story that I remember was a Newsflash that reported John Lennon's assassination in 1980. I remember my Dad was very animated immediately afterwards.
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