News stories from your youth that today's youth wouldn't know?

Allira

This is not a pleasant thread.

I hope there are no relatives of anyone mentioned in these distressing old news stories on GN.

Is it supposed to be a game? Because it's neither News nor Politics.

I agree, I find these types of looking backwards somewhat distasteful so I am changing to the Mobile site so that I can hide them

Death of Marilyn Monroe.

i was 11 when we had the the nights of no electricity and the three day week, going to bed in the dark, at 62 i still have to have a small hall light on as i am afraid of the dark. listening to tony price on radio Luxembourg near tears telling me at 13 elvis had died, hearing what was classed as the first rap song by the sugarhill gang and thinking this is the end of music, i was 16 and my life was all about my new job in the co op and buying music singles and the latest cheap fashion from what every woman wants. andy peebles announcing john lennons death as i was getting ready for work on bbc radio 1, life was simpler back then.

The great train robbery

The Aberfan disaster and the assassination of President Kennedy.

Decimalization

The Suez Crisis. We were living in Egypt at the time and had to be evacuated. When we returned to England (by ship) there was a general strike and soldiers were working at the docks.

That’s reminded me of Christian Barnard and the heart transplants

Louise Brown the first “test tube baby”.

When JFK and Martin Luther were assassinated they made a huge impression on me
Nanna8 it’s amazing how we forget we have already been in the fear of nuclear war

I have horrible memories of hearing Enoch Powels hideous speeches (and he’s back in a new body)

We were all warned at school that a nuclear war was imminent and to consider stocking up cans and getting sandbags. Fallout shelters and bunkers were mentioned. London. . Don’t think we would have lasted very long!

The smallpox epidemic

Lesley Whittle - the thought of that poor young girl, at the bottom off a mine shaft, still bothers me ..

This is not a pleasant thread.

I hope there are no relatives of anyone mentioned in these distressing old news stories on GN.

Is it supposed to be a game? Because it's neither News nor Politics.

Watergate
The Moors Murderers

BlueBelle

Babs I was not to faraway when that happened I remember following it with horror Didn’t he keep a girl captive in a drain area

Biafra

Yes she was an 18 year old heiress called Lesley Whittle, Sago posted her name and it brought it all back.

Aberfan
The shooting of Kennedy

So many news stories -

Margaret Thatcher became The first female Prime Minister
The Yorkshire Ripper
Fred and Rose West
The collapse of the Berlin Wall

Babs I was not to faraway when that happened I remember following it with horror Didn’t he keep a girl captive in a drain area

Biafra

Go?

Where? What.?
Any reason why they should ?

When I lived in Lancashire I hasten to add

Ah indeed The Black Panther, he shot and killed a subpostmaster near us.

Lesley Whittle.