If you could go back in time….

Can we go back and experience the best bits of our lives again. Holding my babies for the first time (again) would be wonderful,

It's lovely to hear people saying that they'd like to relive their childhoods. I really wouldn't, but I'd like to go back to my teens knowing what I do now. The old head on young shoulders thing, I suppose .

Would love to go back to being a young child playing out till nearly dark & waiting for all our Mum’s to stand at the gates to the Park we played in. They would wait for us while the Park keeper went round shutting & locking the gates. Memories always seem sunny happy days! Wish my Grandkids could do the same but too many nasty things happen now for children to be allowed out as we were!

I would like to go back to my childhood and relive it slowly and enjoy all of it because it was the best time in my life. Fantastic parents and dad sadly died when I was 19. Mam lived until she was nearly 100. I still miss them today.

A time in history would be 1900’s and see the beginning of the early cars. Fascinating.

I would like to see my great Grandfather. He drove the flying Scotsman service (pre FS engine). I have a pictures of him in motorbike leathers sitting on a motor bike aged 87 and another entertaining veterans at the Britsh Legion Club aged 93.

I was 3 when my father died so I’ve no memories of him, but I’d like the opportunity to sit and talk to him

Oh I would like to have a week with Eleanor of Aquitane in her convent, in old age. What a life (heiress fearing kidnap, wife of king of France, wife of Henry II - partner in running the realm, mother of many who ruled and married rulers, went on Crusades, had to petition the Pope and nearly bankrupt England getting Richard out of prison). Just to actually know what life had seemed like to her.

I would like to go back to Jesus’ time as well to see what happened after he died.

Back to Sept '39 when my dear mum was evacuated to a farm in Norfolk for the duration of WWII

Twig14

So many things I would like to go back for. Sadly I would have liked to have been with my dear Dad when he was dying of Covid in hospital I wasn’t allowed to go in the hospital and had to say goodbye on my iPad. It was a very upsetting time

I'm so sorry, Twig. Such an awful, awful time. Sending love and hugs X

My dad died through suicide so I would love to go back to stop that from happening so that the children and my husband could meet and experience the great dad and grandad he would’ve been. He loved children and was a fantastic father to me and my brother

So many things I would like to go back for. Sadly I would have liked to have been with my dear Dad when he was dying of Covid in hospital I wasn’t allowed to go in the hospital and had to say goodbye on my iPad. It was a very upsetting time

I would like to go back in time to meet my Irish paternal grandmother, to find out what she was like. She died when my dad was only 15.
Personality-wise, I have never felt like I have much in common with any of the family who I knew as I grew up, and can't help wondering if I take after her.

NotSpaghetti

I'm not sure how much I want to go back in time if I can't change anything...

I'd agree, but there are things I would love to have been a part of.

Been in Egypt in the 30's when my grandma climbed the pyramids, for example.

If we went back and changed/deleted everything we thought should be, we probably wouldn't even be here!!

I'm not sure how much I want to go back in time if I can't change anything...

biglouis

I would like to go back and watch what really happened to the princes in the tower because I dont believe it was Richard III who had them killed.

I would also like to ask Elizabeth I why she never married. I suspect it would be similar to my own feelings about bearing children.

I've always found that story interesting. Remember watching a documentary about it some years ago. Would also be interested to know where Kaspar Hauser came from.....

Strangely I’d like to go back to the war years. First and second WW’s. To see how my gp and parents coped with life. It seemed to be a time of great community with everyone helping each other out. Close bonds with neighbours, family and friends.

I would like to go back and watch what really happened to the princes in the tower because I dont believe it was Richard III who had them killed.

I would also like to ask Elizabeth I why she never married. I suspect it would be similar to my own feelings about bearing children.

I'd like to go back in time to Woodstock, and watch all those amazing acts!

Germanshepherdsmum

How my many times great grandmother explained who was the father of the two children she had between the death of her first husband in 1581 and her remarriage in 1585. Oh to be a fly on the wall! I strongly suspect the father was her stepson, close in age to her, but I will never be able to prove it.

I thought I would never be able to prove who my Grandfathers father was, but I have DNA matches to the family of the young lodger who was living with his mother at the time. Mystery solved.

I’d like to go back and see my Grandfather, who I didn’t realise was born in our village along with his many siblings.
I can only imagine them all in a 2 bedroomed house, with no running water.
One of his daughters ( my Aunt) bought the house which would have been next to his home when she married, she still didn’t have electricity upstairs or a bathroom when I was a teenager.
Gas lighting and the loo was up the garden.

As a Roman historian and having lived in Naples for many years, I would like to see Herculaneum in its heyday, although preferably not on the day of the eruption that destroyed it!

I would also dearly like to witness daily life in a Neolithic settlement and the landscape of Britain at that time.

yggdrasil

I'd like to meet my father. He died when I was only 7 and I have only a few memories

Oh yggdrasil, I'm sorry.

JaneJudge, hope things feel better for you soon, I agree that a simpler life is so good for you and often find myself wondering if all of the 'conveniences' we have nowadays has actually made everything more hurried and stressful. Hope the coming of Spring can work a little bit of old fashioned magic for you

I would like to go back a century and meet my maternal grandfather who died about 8 years before I was born. My granny never spoke of him though she did reminisce about her side of the family. My mother was devoted to him and, when I asked my aunt about him, all she said was that he was 'a very nice man'.

I knew someone would pick up on this. I feel quite depressed atm and I’m going through a period of transition which followed a really difficult 2023. Maybe I’d like to go back to when things were simpler for me.