To wonder how your parents and grandparents met?

[Daisywellies]

In a world where so many couples seem to meet on line or through work it would be nice to hear of how couples met years ago when the internet didn't exist and people didn't work the long hours they do nowadays.

My parents met through friends; one set of grandparents met when my grandfather knocked my grandmother over with his bike outside the local library, the other when my grandmother served my granddad in a tea shop.

My paternal grandparents were a scandal, my grandmother's husband (not my grandad) was at war and my grandfather was her lodger they had a fling, she had a baby and I think was pregnant with the second when her husband returned and he said he'd forgive her if she had the children adopted, she declined and kept the children and eventually married my grandfather (and went on to make her dils marriages miserable by questioning the paternity of the first borns?)

I don't know about my maternal, I know he was her second husband as the first died young.

My parents I believe was a party, there would've been alcohol...

This is a great idea for a thread I'm going to pester my mum for more details as I can't believe I don't know!

My parents met working together in bhs aged 18. Mum didn't like dad at first but soon realised he wasn't as arrogant as he seemed. They were each other's first love and have been married 35 years.

My maternal grandparents met at a dance. My grandma went with a friend, and was supposed to be "set up" with another man but ended up with his friend, my grandad, instead. Her friend married my grandad's friend, they all stayed close until they died 60 odd years later.

Don't know much about my paternal grandparents. My grandma and her sister ended up marrying two brothers though!

My parents met at a dance.

My paternal grandmother worked in a shop. My granddad drove a truck and called into the shop and she served him.

I don't know about my maternal grandparents.

My paternal grandparents met during the war, my grandad was in the army and my grandma was a land girl.

My maternal grandparents met at a dance, my nan was a nurse and my grandad a soldier.

My parents met in the naafi bar, my mum was working behind the bar and my dad was a soldier.

My parents met when my mum had her sisters boyfriend (my dad) as a lodger to help out. The first my poor auntie heard about it was when my grandmother let slip that my mum was pregnant

My grandparents met while walking their dogs. My nan was engaged to someone else at the time. My parents met in a pub. I also met my husband in a pub.

My parents met "old school version of online" - the CB radio

My Dads parents are my Nanna and one of her, ahem, Clients. Needless to say Dad nor any of us have ever met him.

No idea how my Mums parents met but my Mum was DC8 and he left before she was born.

My parents met through a friend of my mother's who worked with my dad.

My maternal grandparents met surfing on Bondi Beach in the 1930s. My paternal grandmother met my grandfather through his sister; their parents then gave my grandmother a Saturday job in their post office, which my grandparents eventually went on to own.

GF was a Dr, GM was a nurse. They met at work, war was fast approaching. They were very happy and much loved by their children, grandchildren & great grandchildren.

DF was a soldier, DM was a nurse, they met at a dance, married within a year. Over 40 years later they would be lost without each other but constantly bicker!

My parents met at teacher training college.

Maternal grandparents grew up in the same area, I think they met at the youth club or a dance.

Paternal grandparents worked at the same bank. She got his attention by flicking rubber bands at him

My parents were next-door-but-one neighbours. My Mum was a young widow who had been bombed out of two homes in London during the war and moved to Worcestershire. She was lodging two doors away from my Gran, with whom my Dad was staying after bring demobbed. My Gran was taken ill and Mum helped to look after her. Dad invited her out to the flics to say 'thank you' and two weeks later he asked her to marry him. They had a very happy, but much too short, marriage - my Dad died 11 years later.

My father was the Butcher's Boy and my mother was a kitchen maid. He delivered the meat every day to the Big House.

M&D met on the beach at Hemsby when they were 11.

Paternal GPs met through Scouts. I think GM was the district secretary and GP was the treasurer.

Maternal gps - no idea.

My grandparents met when my nan was a Saturday girl in a well known small and now gone department store, he used to come in an never buy anything and drive her demented and eventually she agreed to go on a date. She was 17 and he was 19.

My parents met when they were 20, Mum worked in his local pub part-time in the evenings alongside her full time job.

I met my husband when we were 15 through friends. My best mate was going out with his best mate.

I know very little couples who met online, most met in real life situations (and I am under 30)

oh whether , that is sooo romantic, I can see it now....

....romance over a dripping packet of kidneys....

My grandparents met at work. My grandad worked on the buses and grandma worked in the canteen at the depot.

My parents are quite scandalous. My Mum was a choir girl and my Dad the choir master. There is a 20 year age gap between them. There was quite a kerfuffle within the family when they got together apparently, especially has my Dad was already married. It all sounds very Jezza Kyle but they have been married 30 odd years now.

My parents met in Sixth Form.
My paternal gf apparently used to watch my paternal gm go to church and took a shine to her. He wasn't going to church himself though so her father sent her off to do nursing training. There are pictures of her enjoying her time away but she came back and married him.
I sat my maternal grandparents down together and asked them to tell me their story and it was absolutely brilliant to hear it from them together. She went to work in the factory where he worked. He asked to walk her home and she refused. All the women were agog at this. Then it transpired he was engaged. He kept asking. She said she wouldn't walk home with an engaged man. He got unengaged and they were married within months. He adored her. I hope the poor dumped fiancée had a happy ending though.
When they were telling me they went all daft like the teenagers they were even though they were 80 and had taken their teeth out. Both gone now but I can still see them giggling

My parents met at work - office romance and continued working there together until my mum left and had me.

I don't know about my grandparents, will have to ask my parents. I do know what my grandad had a motorbike which broke down a lot and he would frequently have to walk miles while pushing it to go and visit my grandma when they were both 18, aww.

All my grandparents met through scout / guides.
My parents met through scouts and guides. It was apparently the eharmony of their day(s).

My Grandmother ran a guest house for gentleman boarders and my Mum used to cook for her. My Dad was one of the lodgers.

My Paternal Grandparents met at a dance.

My Maternal Grandparents met when my Grandma was travelling to a new town to start a new job. She got to the station and realised she didn't have any directions to where she was meant to go. My Grandfather was having lunch with his brother who was the station master. He walked my Grandma to her new lodgings and it started from there.

Paternal grandparents at a dance, maternal grandparents no idea I've never asked.

My parents met in a chip shop. My mother owned it and my dad went in one night after having a drink, decided he liked the look of her and went back the next night to apologise for his drunken self. 3 weeks later they where engaged, they've been together almost 30 years now.

My parents met because their respective best friends were brother and sister. So they each knew the family well, but their paths didn't cross until my dad's friend's 21st and they were both invited. My dad was in his carpet slippers, smoking a cigar, and was the first person my mum had met who had been to university - who could resist such an exotic mixture?!

Don't know about my grandparents, but one set of dh's grandparents met (didn't get together straightaway) when he was at school and she was his teacher

My parents met at school and my grandparents grew up in a very small town. Everyone knew everyone

My parents met through a graduates' social club in the town that they had both moved to after university. Grandparents lived in the same village and 'met' that way. DH and I met in a bar