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

I was 12 years of age, and madly in love with Donny osmond, David Cassidy, then bit later in bay city rollers (les, main singer) 🤣😂

I was 20 and working as a Management Trainee at John Lewis. My weekends were spent listening to Progressive Rock bands such as Ginger Baker’s Airforce and Groundhog. There may have been marijuana involved. I had an assortment of boyfriends - I didn’t meet OH until the following year. It all seems so long ago now and I suppose it is.

Just finished teacher training. Stupidly chose the school to start teaching in according to where the man I loved at the time lived. He did off to New Zealand shortly after !

I had an 11 month daughter and was expecting another baby, but like first time around, I was dreadfully sick throughout the pregnancy.

I was 19 ( 20 later that year), in the WRAF and engaged.

Miserable 13 year old.

I was 5 and had just started Summer holidays after my first year at school.

Studying for GCE's, winning gymnastic competitions and playing netball for S Wales.

I was 18, still at home but pondering on how best to leave and be independent. I worked in a low-paid office job, bashing away at a typewriter, the type of machine which you'd find a museum nowadays.

I was 18 and had just got married. We have just celebrated our Golden Wedding Anniversary. Three wonderful children and four gorgeous grandchildren. We feel truly blessed.

Just finished my first year of teaching in a wonderful middle school !

I was 16 and had just left school to work full time pricing prescriptions before starting nurse training. I wish I d stayed on at school and got A levels as I might have made different choices

Several people on here are the same age as me! I had just finished my A levels and was working in the Co-op for the Summer. I was looking forward to starting teacher training in September. Some school friends and I went to Scarborough for a week on the National Express coach. I was a big David Bowie fan - still am.😎
I’ve been watching Steeltown Murders on iPlayer (set in 1973) - I can’t believe it was 50 years ago!!! 😳😳

I had just finished my first year of teaching in 1973. Going out with someone who I met at college. I can't remember if I went on holiday that year.

So nice reading all these memories. I had walked into the Bank where my Dad always banked - asked if they might be taking on some school leavers. The door opened - there stood the Bank Manager and he welcomed me into his room. I was taken aback didn't expect that. Anyway as long as I passed my exams with the marks he required, I was to let him know. I did -& I worked there for 8 years, very happily.

I was 22, married the previous year and into the 2nd year of a 3 year posting (husband in the RAF) in Cyprus.

I went to HongKong to live as husband was in the Royal Navy. Two children age 6 months & three & a half. Wonderful experience.

I love these type of posts.
I was 16 and had just left the 5th form. Spent most of the Summer working in Woolworths and swapping boyfriends on a regular basis. Wish I could go back and change things, I probably would have never joined the sixth form and subsequently wasted a year.

I was in Japan having just completed Exercise Green Light, a joint U.S./U.K./Japanese/Thai naval exercise showing the flag in the South China Sea to counter Chinese aggression.
Truly nothing changes

I had a nearly one year old baby, who loved to run and climb over everything. she was walking and running by the time she was ten months old! I was the slimmest I'd ever been through running after her. She's still very active but now has a 7 year old daughter.

Nothing exciting, I was still at primary school. But probably looking forward to the Summer holidays and camping in France with my parents

I’d just turned 17, working full time as an insurance clerk, and fairly miffed at no longer having six weeks off in the summer! Taking weekly driving lessons in a Ford Escort, saving diligently, and having to pay my mother 1/4 of my wages for my “keep”. I couldn’t wait to leave home but it was another two years before I moved into a bedsit.

I was already engaged to the boy I married in 1979 and divorced 10 years later, it was so silly but of course we knew best!

just finished my first year of a two year training course to be a nursery nurse and had stupidly got engaged! saw sense and broke it off a few months later

I had been married for two years. Suddenly my husband had a job in South Wales and we had to move from Sheffield where we had grown up. I was a big change. We managed to put a deposit on our first home and are still in it, it is a little larger than when we bought it! 50 years on and we have three Welsh children and 4 Welsh grandchildren.
Hwyl Fawr
(Goodbye)

I too was happily married with 2 sons one of 5 years and one of 18 month,. I was working evenings in the local pub to earn some extra money. I loved my life and my home in country never having lived out of a city before