If you could time travel to one particular day only

[BorgQueen]

When/ where would you visit and why?
I’ll start.
This day in 1885 : my home village.
My maternal Great Grandparents got married in the same church I got married in 1985.
I had NO idea until last year that they had any connection with this place.
I would love to watch them marry, then spend the day walking around to see how the place has changed, the village used to end a few hundred yards before my house, which stands on what used to be farm land according to my deeds.

By 1891, they had four children plus my GGM already had three and my GGD had a Son, they lived in a tiny 2 bed cottage in the next village over.

Well, very belatedly here is my response (your thread popped up as a similar thread). I thought what a wonderful question.

So here goes - I’d pick Christmas Day 1948, in my late mother’s home (also happens to be the house where I was born). It’s in the West Country. She would have been 8. Number 5 of 6 siblings.

Her father still alive and well (he died when she was 15, having been unwell for 5 years). All her siblings still living at home. 3 lodgers. They didn’t have much money but were a very close family (the siblings remained living in the same city all their lives and saw each other at least weekly until my mother, the last of them, died in 2021).

DM remembered having a coconut for Christmas when she was 8. For them all to share. And her father carefully drilling into it and dividing it so everyone got a tiny piece. And she had a leather satchel as her Christmas present. She recalled playing board games with her siblings and spoke of her childhood with such joy, despite the privations, I’d love to see a day of her life. Any day really, but I’ve chosen that one. I’d also love to see my grandmother, whom I adored, as a mother to young children.