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

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Riverwalk Sat 22-Jul-23 14:57:15

This time in 1973 I was 18 and waiting to start nurse training, having left school three years earlier at the tender age of 15.

I don't know were the time went but would like to re-visit and make a few changes! smile

Sar53 Sat 22-Jul-23 19:57:04

I was just 20, working in London. I had met my first husband and we got married in 1974.
I wish I knew then what I know now.

Iam64 Sat 22-Jul-23 19:56:30

I was unhappily married with a one year old. Making the best of it and happy to have a babe. Wondering what I could do to improve things. Took me a while to work out nothing I did could make it all ok

GrandmaSeaDragon Sat 22-Jul-23 19:55:35

I was 23, married 2 years, selling our flat and buying a semi in suburban Surrey, working full-time.

pinkprincess Sat 22-Jul-23 19:49:25

I was a stay at home mother with a 3 year old son and his baby brother who had just had his first birthday.
My DH was in the Merchant Navy so coping alone most of the time.

NotAGran55 Sat 22-Jul-23 19:46:10

I was 17, working shifts with a great young crowd, just about to pass my driving test in my own car, boyfriend with a Lotus Elan, going to gigs, parties, filling my wardrobe and having a ball!

TerriBull Sat 22-Jul-23 19:40:16

PaperMonster

Waiting to start school!!

Just reading through everybody's experiences. PaperMonster, you're a baby grin

Bakingmad0203 Sat 22-Jul-23 19:38:00

I was in my first year at Polytechnic doing 12 weeks work experience in Cheltenham as part of my HND. I loved it, visited some beautiful places and learnt a lot. It convinced me to stay on the course, even though I realised I preferred working to studying! I always meant to go back, but never have.

kittylester Sat 22-Jul-23 19:37:15

7 months pregnant with ds2, living in a Shropshire village and not liking it too much.

rockgran Sat 22-Jul-23 19:35:52

About to start teaching.

Marydoll Sat 22-Jul-23 19:33:58

I was eighteen and working in the Knorr factory, making stock cubes and behind a bar in a working men's club, before starting university in the autumn.

Oopsadaisy1 Sat 22-Jul-23 19:01:49

I was married with a toddler and pregnant with our second daughter, happy days.

LovesBach Sat 22-Jul-23 19:00:31

Married for several years, expecting first baby, and feeling very, very sick all day and every day! Unbelievbly that baby will be fifty next year.

silverlining48 Sat 22-Jul-23 18:57:20

Married 4 years living in a rented flat, living a frugal life, desperate to save every penny for our first 2 up 2 down terraced house.
No bank of mum and dad in those days .

Washerwoman Sat 22-Jul-23 18:41:27

I was 14 and fortunately loved school.In the summer holidays we went to Oban for a family wedding .Then I was a bridesmaid at my brothers wedding.I felt very sophisticated as I wore a bit of lip gloss which I bought in Woolies and kept in a makeup bag that came free with Jackie magazine. Happy days !

Knittynatter Sat 22-Jul-23 18:36:50

I was 14. I hated school which I found very confusing, had no friends, didn’t understand the world or where I fit in it but loved reading novels. If that was me now I’m sure I would be diagnosed and pigeon holed but as it was I was shy and antisocial.
I grew out of it 😂

mrswoo Sat 22-Jul-23 18:15:33

Had just left my native Birmingham for a job at Heathrow Airport. I imagined a life of glitz and glamour but in reality it was fairly mundane.

Greyduster Sat 22-Jul-23 18:10:33

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

tinaf1 Sat 22-Jul-23 17:59:43

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

annsixty Sat 22-Jul-23 17:35:24

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.

fancythat Sat 22-Jul-23 17:34:39

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

Hiraeth Sat 22-Jul-23 17:24:38

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

PaperMonster Sat 22-Jul-23 17:11:13

Waiting to start school!!

Hellogirl1 Sat 22-Jul-23 17:10:47

Amend the last bit to 1 year and 10 months!

Hellogirl1 Sat 22-Jul-23 17:09:36

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.

GrannyRose15 Sat 22-Jul-23 17:08:57

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