what before your time events do you wish you could have seen?

[ThePinkDreamer]

the 1966 world cup for a start

I was a small child in 1966, my parents went on a river boat trip on the afternoon of the 1966 World Cup final with me.

Decimalisation day.

Any speech by Martin Luther king

Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 😁 - very extravagant meeting between the young King Henry VIII and Francis I of France, in northern France. They had whole fake palaces made of wood, jousting, all the cool kids were there - it sounds very impressive!

@blackice - I lived in Russia for 5 months from 1997-98 and it was really different to the UK even post the fall of the USSR.

I was at Live Aid. I would have liked to have seen The Beatles when they played the Granada in Walthamstow. Or on the roof at Apple Records that day.
Ella Fitzgerald at the Mocambo with Marilyn Monroe in the front row.
Mine are pretty much all music.. Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl in the West End.

One of the Frost Fairs when the Thames froze over.

Wow!

I used to live near Crystal Palace and would often go for a walk near the foundations.

Mozart playing

I was just coming on here to say the Great Exhibition of 1851 and then noticed that someone had mentioned it in its later location at Crystal Palace.

I'd like to have seen a play performed at the original Globe Theatre.

Nirvana at Reading 1992.

I watched the DVD over and over and over through my teens.

From a distance/invisible etc then Ancient Egypt for sure.

The building of the pyramids/sphinx

The R101.

[Saw the 1966 world cup!]

The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition.
The old London Bridge with buildings on it- not an event, but I wish I could have seen it.

There is a lovely model of the old London Bridge in the church of St Magnus the Martyr, on Lower Thames Street just down Fish Street Hill from The Monument. It's closed Mondays and Saturdays, but, AFAIK, admission is free.

Yes, but I think you might need to specify you’d like to witness it as a French aristocrat or something. Knowing my luck, I’d be transported back into the body of a skivvy and spend the whole time turning a spit backstage and not catching a glimpse of the palaces or the royal monkeys covered in gold etc.

I think I’d like to have been around for the French Revolution, with a guarantee of my own safety. I’ve always been fascinated by Mary Wollstonecraft’s accounts of her experiences in Paris during the Reign of Terror..

Oh, yes!

I dont know about the R101 but my father certainly saw the Hindenburg & Graf Zeppelin flying over London

Would love to have been around when the suffragettes were doing their thing. Strong, fearless women. So inspiring.

Me too. And the Festival of Britain.

Mine as well. He and his parents lived in Catford and he remembered seeing the glow from the fire in the night sky.

I only went once or twice ,but it wasn't all that imo,
I was more of a rocker anyway so preferred rockworld and all the indie clubs.

I was 4 and kept walking in front of the telly apparently x

I'd like to have experienced Roman London.

I knew I was getting old when two of my young colleagues told me it must have been amazing for me living in London in the 90s.

(It was actually!)

I went a few times. Loved it. Bit of a trek over the Pennines for us, in my mate's Renault 5. My main memories are the absolutely enormous bouncers and how lovely the bar staff were.

We were in there when they filmed a documentary about the Acid House 'phenomenon' (about 18 months late).