Other than that not much it would seem, political or cultural, oh, apart from the iconic occasion when Bob Holness first laid down the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty’s hit single Baker Street.
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Death of the Queen. Sad for her family but, I don’t really care.
The fact that you consider it an iconic moment suggests to the contrary.
Went to a work conference in London, next morning got to the tram and it was closed, tried to get on a bus and couldn't because everything was weird, so started to walk from the hotel back to Euston, it was only when I got closer to Euston and saw people stood outside office buildings with the news on the reception TVs that I realised I'd missed being in a major terrorist incident (7/7). spent about 5hrs just stood outside Euston waiting for the trains to start again
Also saw the Manchester Bomb mushroom cloud from a salford flat window, glad I was nowhere near that, it was bloody loud even from 4miles away
Anything to do with the Royal Family. I really couldn’t give two shits.
These are massive events in our country’s history, but they pass me by.
They're really not, generate a lot of space in papers, but they don't really have any actual affect on UK PLC.
More just like a real life soap opera or reality show which never ends....
I was probably a bit young at the time (10 I think) but the miners strike. Living in Sheffield you’d have thought I’d be surrounded by it but I lived in the west of the city so not one of the mining communities.
I was 16 and very aware of what I was seeing on the news but it didn't impact on my life at all. I remember that there were food collections in the city centre, but it really felt like foreign news to me. I'm not sure how close the nearest active pit was to us, but we only lived 20 miles from the Rhondda Valley - I'm guessing that the closest striking pit may have been well within 10 miles. That's the beauty of being a teenager, I guess. WW3 could happen and you're only interested in acne cream and whether Sharon Jones fancies you. 😀
food banks galore in the yorkshire mining villages in the early 80's,pre and post strike.
Flew back from a week's holiday in Turkey in the early hours of September 11th, 2001.
Went to bed and woke up mid-afternoon to some rather major news.
I was a news journalist at the time, but didn't mind having missed the biggest story of the century (so far).
food banks galore in the yorkshire mining villages in the early 80’s,pre and post strike.
Weren't those just to support the striking miners though, not the general population?
I don't recall food banks being much of a thing back then.
I'm so old I don't think anything has.
Missed the first Covid lockdown. I was in at Maol-bhuidhe bothy when it happened. No radio or phone signal. Found out when I got back to the car a couple of days later. Very odd drive back home. Never saw a car going the same way between Shiel Bridge of Spean Bridge.
I missed that point in history where every social/cultural based thread became a list of humble brags about who was most aloof on topical events.
Yeah, think the miners strikes in the 80s was the one thing that's really passed me by. I was only 8/9 years old though and grew up on a council estate in Leicester. So I suppose it didn't really affect us. Sadly, I'm 46 now and still don't really know what went on....
Went travelling and came back to people banging on about the Royale Family. No idea what they were on about, then realised it was a new hit TV comedy. I couldn't ever get into it after that.
9/11. I was with 2 mates cave diving in northern Spain - very rural area. The cave we had discovered and were exploring had turned pretty nasty and I was convinced one of us was likely not to be coming home and we should really walk away before that happened. We got back to the casa rurale we were using as a base and the farmer dragged us into his house and showed us the TV footage. We at first assumed a movie or something, then realised it was real and thought accident. Then it became obvious two planes had hit, and the word terroristas started being used. One of our number worked for a company with offices in the WTC. Then the footage of the pentagon came on and we thought it was the start of world war 3 - we genuinely didnt know what to do. Next day this put into context what we were doing and risking and we decided to not continue. A few days later I decided on one last dive (it was my turn for a crack at the end) and on that dive found the end of the cave. My wife had flown out for a few days and all flights were cancelled so she had to ride back to the UK squashed in our overloaded van sat on top of a pile of oxygen and helium tanks! Coming back through Dover felt like reaching home and safety in so many ways. So I didn't exactly miss the event, but it was a pretty strange perspective of it.
Went travelling and came back to people banging on about the Royale Family. No idea what they were on about, then realised it was a new hit TV comedy
Not moments in history, but MrsMC did a year with VSO in Russia in 97/8, and missed the Spice Girls and the Teletubbies. She was there for Diana's death though. They tried to make her take a week off in mourning.
Amazing how many folk on here missed Diana's death. Here's my alibi for the event 🙂
I was on a bus to Poland for a week and caught a bit of it later in the week, but was glad to be away from the UK. Tour guide broke the news and looked heart broken, I think my girlfriend at the time laughed...
Thought the ‘music’ for raves was total shiiite. I still do.
See, the music was yes, made for raves. So, if you didn’t do raves…well. Obvious innit.
The appeal of crap like Extreme, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Thunder certainly passed me by, but I was never a long haired geek banging my head with a bunch of other boys in black t-shirts.
I did miss rave too, but not Diana’s death or the Twin Towers, can remember exactly where I was when they happened. Live Aid I was on the beach and used Live Aid chat to talk to some young girls. Slightly too young as it turned out, eh Tim! 😳
I was living in a shitty bedsit in Brighouse when Diana died. Been out on the piss in Huddersfield, got back about 3am and turned the telly on whilst eating a kebab and saw it. The following week for the funeral is the quietest I've ever known the roads in this country.
9/11 I was at work for Yorkshire Electric in Seacroft Leeds. Didn't really understand what was going on or the scale until I got home later that day.
Amazing how many folk on here missed Diana’s death.
I was at a road race somewhere out in Kent. Mid way through the race, fairly steady in the bunch and a guy rolls up alongside and says "hey did you hear that Princess Diana has died?"
I was like - what kind of idiot do you take me for, you're about to attack and you're trying to distract people with shit like that.
Back at the village hall after the race and word was still going around about it then in the car on the way back we put the radio on. At the time it was still fairly early on Sunday morning so the radio channels were still lining up "important people to talk to" and were having to settle for phone in crap - and now we have Brenda from Walthamstow on the line - "oh it's shocking, oh I'm so sad" repeated all the way home.
I went for a ride on the day of her funeral. Roads were deserted.
The appeal of crap like Extreme, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Thunder certainly passed me by, but I was never a long haired geek banging my head with a bunch of other boys in black t-shirts.
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I was at a road race somewhere out in Kent. Mid way through the race, fairly steady in the bunch and a guy rolls up alongside and says “hey did you hear that Princess Diana has died?”
What time did the race start - it was TV and radio were all over it from about 3am
