Half a century ago... what were you up to?

Still at school in London.

In the summer of 1973 I had just finished teacher training, just got married, and just about to start my first teaching job! A busy time.

Married for 12 years and mostly a stay at home mum, with our boy aged almost 10 and daughter of 7.

Running a B&B and tea room in Cornwall.

I was just turned 19 and had been going out with my now Husband for nearly three years and in full time work for about the same time.We were about to fly to Ibiza, my first flight and first foreign holiday.

I was working the summer holidays in Pedigree toy factory prior to leaving home to start nursing training. Fun summer stitching teddy bear paws,painting gold leaves on Sindy furniture and ironing Rupert bear scarves ! But it gave me the money to buy nurses fob watch,regulation shoes and a suitcase plus the train fare. Fun times !

Married and expecting my first child. Still teaching.

I was 14, nearly 15 and desperate to be a grown up.

DH and I had been married for nearly a year. At about this time we had a holiday camping in North Wales. Sat out in the blazing sun the first day, both got terribly sunburnt!

What idiots we were!

Had turned brown by the time we went home though.

On my school holidays and probably spending every waking moment at the local riding stables.

I was 25, hugely pregnant with our first Daughter, who was born on 27th July, weighing in at a healthy 8lbs 11oz. Ouch! She'll be celebrating her 50th next Thursday. We were living on the Moray Firth coast at the time, which is where Baxters grow most of their soft fruits for jams etc. Very handy, as my main food fixation during late pregnancy in particular, was fresh strawberries. How time flies.

I was 23 , married and expecting our first child. Working in London and decorating our little cottage including a nursery.
Excited and apprehensive.
Would we do it all again?………. Maybe, possibly, probably.

I was 21. My now sister in law had just got married. My now husband and I were working together in his shop. I was enjoying the single life.

Two years married, just starting a Dip.Ed at B'ham university while retaining my scale 3 teaching salary and having travelling allowance as well! No fees to pay either.
Petrol was 33p per gallon at the beginning of the year and 99p at the end.

I was 10 so still at primary school.
Happy days though.

Married with a 20 month old son and a baby daughter 4 months old. Very happy and content in our own home in Wales

Just finished my ‘O’ level exams, and excitedly waiting to become an auntie for the first time.

I was 30, married for 10 years, with 5 children aged 9,8, 6, 3 and 10 months. Went to the I.O.W for our holiday that month.

Amend the last bit to 1 year and 10 months!

Waiting to start school!!

I moved from South Wales up to Liverpool to train as a children’s nurse at Alderhey hospital,. I was terribly home - sick .

I was 12. My life had hardly begun. An unmemorable year. From what I can remember!

I had been married for 15 years and had a D aged 8 and a S of 3 .
We went to Spain for a holiday that year with our friends who had 2 D’s of similar ages to ours.
Life was very good.

Pregnant with my second boy he weighs 11Lbs 4oz so waddling about like a duck

I was living in Northern Ireland with my soldier husband and two very young children. They were interesting times!