What are the news story’s you will never forget where you were at the time.

[Blueyparentsmychild]

just that really,

mine will always be 7/7 - was caught up in it
grenfell tower - lived locally
9/11
Manchester bombing
probably the queens death to.

Dianas death
911
The boxing day tsnami

I think I was only 5 when Diana died although I do this remember it
and I do remember the tsunami but again think I was fairly young but I do remember my grandparents having the news on watching it unfold.

9/11
Death of Elvis Presley (yes I am that old)
Outbreak of the first Gulf War
Death of Princess Diana
Collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent GFC.

John Lennon being shot dead.
Margaret Thatcher becoming prime minister.
9/11 - remember pretty well every detail of that day.
Diana's death.

I stand corrected I wasn’t that young for the tsunami ( 13 )

i remember the news paper Madeline McCann
and then the Shannon Matthew story

but the one that sticks most despite me being young at the time was Holly and Jessica’s
I was a child and blonde and my best friend and brown hair and we always wore our united kits. I always remembered being spooked every time it came on the news.

John Lennon's murder - I'd just arrived at work, in an office, when it was announced.
Diana's death - I was at home, my dad rang me to tell me to put the news on.
Twin Towers - I was working as a carer, the client and I were watching tv and we thought at first it was the thought of a film.
The Queen's death - I was looking after my grandchildren.

Jill Dando
Princess Diana
9/11

Dunblane and 9/11

Princess Diana, 9/11 and boxing day tsunami.

Death of Elvis on holiday in Devon, death of Princess Diana, woke up to hear the news on t.v. 911, had just dropped dc off at school and was walking across the playground when I overheard a mum saying a plane had gone in the World Trade centre. Came home put news on and saw the second crash live into tower.
Felt sickened beyond belief.

Diana’s death - but more the aftermath because I was in Kenya and away from news coverage and came home to this mass hysteria about it.
9/11

Oh and Lockerbie bombing, was on night shift in a Marie Curie home, a resident had the t.v on when the news broke as I was tending to her medication.

Diana's death .

9/11, Diana's death, first covid lockdown, manchesters arndale centre being bombed.

I can’t remember where I was for anything of significance. Place isn’t a category I remember particularly.

Diana’s death because I was in a hotel room in Paris at the time
Buncefield because we were staying with family and my dad phoned me and woke me up to ask if we were ok as it was so close (found house damaged when we got home after the surreal experience of driving towards the fire in the sky)
9/11 as I just remember watching it all unfold on the TV here in my lounge

Take That splitting up
Frank Bough taking coke and wearing ladies' knickers
One True Voice losing at Popstars, The Rivals

The Dunblane massacre.

Diana's death.
I was about 16 and remember being up and on the phone when the news hit.

9/11

7/7

Beslan school terrorist attack.

The Boxing Day Tsunami

Madeline McCann. My baby was born a few days after she went missing and it has always stayed with me that we have had her for as long as Madeline has been gone.

Paris terrorist attacks.

The murder of the two students and caretaker in Nottingham.

I was living in Eccles and was a student nurse when Manchester was bombed in 1996 my sister was in Manchester that say catching a train back to her university and were all Evacuated for a " controlled explosian"
It was a miracle nobody was seriously hurt !
As awful as this sounds it was the making of the Manchester City centre we have today, they were forced to rebuild it.

Windsor Castle fire
9-11
Notre Dame fire

Kurt Cobain’s death - at students union
Diana’s death - up at a party
9/11 - working in the City, watched the 2nd tower fell in a bar beside our building and the rumour went round that Canary Wharf would be hit
Tsunami - watching Sky news and seeing my group of friends we didn’t know who were ok land in LHR
Madeleine McCann story first hitting - waiting in the foyer of a big city firm with a tv in the wall. A had a dd same age similar heritage and hair

Queens death
Diana's death
Dunblane.
Lockerbie

When Diana died I was a newly qualified nurse on a late shift I had moved back to.my mum.and dad's, I remember my mum waking me up to tell me
And when it was 9/11 I was working nights so i had worked the night before and was asleep in bed and only heard about it when I was listening to the radio whilst I was getting ready for work.

Elvis's death - on kitchen radio my mum was listening to
Challenger exploding - in hairdresser's
Cumbria shootings - at work
Diana's death - watching French tv on holiday abroad
Kurt Cobain's suicide - in a bar abroad
9/11 - a friend who worked at the Beeb messaged me and I put the news on online at work. I didn't compute immediately that the time difference meant it was just happening.

I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about or saw these things happen.

Dunblane
Diana's death
September 11th
Boxing Day Tsunami