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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Married and expecting my first child. Still teaching.

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 !

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.

Running a B&B and tea room in Cornwall.

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

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.

Still at school in London.

I was 24. Married with a four year old daughter. Happy days.

Just finished my penultimate year in school and going to be a bridesmaid to my sister, she was going to wear a Bruce Olfield dress when I had a Laura Ashley one.

Just finished school, waiting for my O level results and looking forward to going to college to do my A levels. Life was good!

Just left school, knew I wouldn’t get into university as my exams were awful and didn’t know what to do

This time in 1973, I was a young mum, home after an emergency section, on 3rd day (transversal breech) without any help and trying to work it all out for myself.

Married with a one year old daughter. In USA on fellowship and just driven across USA from East to West. Rented a rather pretty house in Berkeley suburbs for the summer.

Oh, if I knew then what I know now..............

I had left 6th form and was still deciding what to do. I had some great temping jobs, walk out of one and straight in to another and because I had plenty of qualifications there was no shortage of jobs.

By an absolute coincidence I am this evening meeting up with a friend who I have not seen for 50 years and her brother and sister. They all holidayed here every summer as children but only just got in touch again via FB. Looking forward to it. Where has that half a century gone?

Successfully completed my nurse training and had a five year old daughter. My then husband & I opened a residential home for learning disabled adults. It was a completely new venture for the time and enabled people to leave long stay hospitals. A big learning curve for us.