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.

Lockerbie - was making mince pies when the tv programme was interrupted, dreadful evening.
Piper Alpha - came home from a walk, lovely sunny day, such an awful event
Diana death - woke up to it
Manchester bombing - watching news before bed, ended up watching all night
Raoul Moat - watched it unfold live on tv
Derrick Bird (taxi driver) - came in from work and put the news on, remember it being a glorious June day
9/11 - watched it live, couldn’t believe my own eyes, and it still looks so unreal to me
Queens death - we all watched it at work
Soham murders - was in the area when the girls bodies were found, horrible time, poor families
Shannon Matthew’s - had just left my job for a new one the day they found her, hope she’s doing fine now
7/7 bombings - first week of a new job

Need to have the news on less maybe? 🤷‍♀️

Also: the conviction of Harold Shipman. I was at work, and we had a visiting colleague from China, and he seemed to think that Shipman was typical, and that if he registered with a GP here, he was automatically going to get murdered! I tried to persuade him otherwise.

When I was still a kid: President Nixon's resignation, and Gerald Ford being sworn in as president.

The assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin.

9-11
also the Bali bombings - I was there when it happened. I will never ever forget that.

Thanks lovely, I work for a charity and one of our community development areas is Ynysowen which incorporates Aberfan, and I have to stop halfway whenever I visit them to have a good cry before I get there. My grandcha was a teacher nearby and they closed down all the local schools to help with the rescue effort and I’ve never forgotten what he told me about that day. ❤️

Gosh, so many.
9/11 and 7/7
Diana's death
Dunblane
Zebrugge
James Bulger
Disappearance and murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (I was working for Cambridgeshire Police at the time)
Hillsbrough

On a more positive note, the Berlin Wall coming down.

Good one, I remember that too and I was learning GCSE history at the time so it was even more poignant.

John Lennons murder
John Smith dying
Diana dying
9/11

That must have been really fascinating to see. Rare to see something so positive. Like Mandela being freed.

9/11
Very early memories of the Hillsborough disaster and the Berlin wall coming down
Death of Princess Diana
i’m sure the Queen’s death will enter this list too.

Death of Roald Dahl
Death of Princess Diana
9/11
First reports of covid/pandemic

Princess Diana dying. I was on holiday in France at the time. It was all over the French morning news and I thought it must be a hoax or a mistake.

9/11. I was at home with a toddler and the older DC were at school. I went to pick them up at 3 having just watched it all unfold live on the news, because New York is five hours behind the UK. It felt utterly surreal.

The Queen dying. Again I was on holiday in France.

Hearing that Elvis had died. I was lying on the floor in my living room. It was early morning in the school summer holidays. I was 9.

That is really, really hard sending hugs ❤

Princess Diana’s death
Pope John Paul I death
9/11
Michael Jackson’s death (not a fan of him as a person though)
Trump declared president 😱

I don’t know the average age here, but no one has mentioned Aberfan

I remember coming home from school and my mother was sitting on the settee crying and that was Aberfan, it was truly shocking.
I can also remember a similar thing, my mother was very upset, it had been on the radio that the Manchester Uniter plane had crashed and 'they were all dead', as an adult I'm not proud of my response as an 8 year old but they were a rival team who'd beaten us recently.

mount st Helens explosion in USA - a home, but watching tv , first pyroplatic explosion I’d seen, whilst it was expected in run up, the sheer force was not

Yes i think that was one of the first news stories I remember, along with the siege at the Iranian Embassy.

Both Manchester bombings (i am mancunian)
911
George Michael's death (on my honeymoon)
Diana's death
Covid! I was in labour when the hospitals went into lock down and my mum was asked to leave at midnight!

We'd been into town and booked our flights for a holiday of a lifetime to the USA the following Summer, the children phoned my mother to tell her the exciting news. Half an hour later she phoned to tell us about Lockerbie and tried to talk us out of going because of it.
9/11 happened during the afternoon and I recall being on a major road out of Manchester when the news of the second plane came on the radio, many cars just pulled over to listen in horror. When I got home I had the TV on obviously, my husband came in and wondered what I was watching, he wouldn't believe it wasn't a film at first. I went into the photos box and pulled out one of our girls standing on top of the World Trade Centre

We watched the end of the Iranian embassy siege on TV with a couple of friends, he could identify some of the men rappelling down as he'd been in that Regiment, he was even criticising their technique at one point.

JFK
Otis Redding
Diana
Gill Dando
Twin Towers

I remember most of these from princess Diana, particularly vividly 9/11, the Bataclan attacks as I worked around the corner, and lockdown.

My mother remembers the JKF assassination she was in the US and about 11 at the time, they sent everyone home from school. I like the scene in madmen where Betty and the nanny have a cigarette together on the couch which they wouldn't have otherwise.

Diana’s death
The demo against illegal war on Iraq (1 million people in London, I was one)
9/11
7/7 (I was meant to be on the train at the same time-ish but was late to work)

9/11
UK hosting the Olympics then
7/7
Diana's death
Queens death

But yes 9/11 I remember so much. Every conversation I had at work that day as we listened to it unfold. It was a life changing day really.

Glad I'm not the oldest on here! I have a very strange 'memory', it was 1952, my 18month old brother was in his playpen, there were nappies drying on the huge fireguard, I, almost 4, went with my mother to get some more coal from the place at the side of the house. I can 'see' the neighbour across the road come over, stand at the end of the path and say to my mother Oh, isn't it awful, they've just said on the wireless that the King's dead.
My mother always swore it never happened though, she said my Dad had brought her a cup of tea in bed before he went to work and told her, it had been on the wireless. However during the last two or three Jubilees it was said that the announcement was made at 11am, sadly she wasn't around for me to tell her I was right!

Yes, 9/11 is another that’s branded on the consciousness, isn’t it? I had (again) finished a night-shift and had a sleep, then woke up and put the TV on to find it was happening - just watched in utter disbelief as the commentary described how the plane had gone into the first tower. DH was out of the room and as I watched, the second plane suddenly appeared and went straight into the other tower. I remember crying out in shock and shouting out to DH.