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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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Waiting to start school!!

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

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.

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

About to start teaching.

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.

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

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.

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 .

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 !

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 😂

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Waiting to start school!!

Amend the last bit to 1 year and 10 months!

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.

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