Earliest Memory of Seminal News

Wow, Bijou. How marvellous. Have a wonderful birthday.

Bijou
Congratulations! on you 100th Birthday Anniversary!! You have lived a century and seen the world evolve. I believe you’ve had a good life and lived it well. You are a heroine to so many. Hope you see this still.
God Bless You. 💐🌹🌟🍫🎂🥂
USA Gundy

Many congratulations Bijou, that was a fascinating post. I hope I’m still posting on GN or wherever when I’m your age!

I remember Aberfan on TV. I remember there was something on TV after it about gifts being sent to the surviving children and I commented how lucky they were to get presents and my mum looking tearful and explaining to me how sad it was. I also have a clear memory of my class (and maybe some other classes) being allowed to watch Winston Churchill's funeral on T V at school. Being allowed to watch TV in school was such a novel experience but tbh I had no idea what it was all about.

Oh gosh yes - I remember Aberfan on the news.

Susan Maxwell, a little girl that had been kidnapped from the Coldstream area, I think. I took a lot of notice because they said police were stopping vehicles, particularly those with children in, and at the time I was going with my dad to work in his lorry. Not once did they stop him, whether I was in it or not!!
That poor girl!!!
And then the Falklands war looming...my neighbour caught me crying at the bottom of our steps and comforted me!

I worked beside a member of Susan's family for a while. She was one of several victims of the vile Robert Black. The man who alerted police and helped to catch him lived in our village and has since had a street named after him.

The first news I remember was Suez and Hungary, both in 1956 when I was 4 (although I had to check to see which came first ). I had no idea what was going on, but we always had to be quiet when the news was on, so I couldn't ask why they were talking about hungry at breakfast time. Eventually I remembered to ask after the news was over and it made more sense.