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.

I was very small and visiting my granny with my parents. I remember all three of them crying but didn't understand except they kept talking about those poor little children. It was all over the television and radio news.

I found out later they were distraught over the Aberfan disaster.

It still upsets me now when I think of all that suffering.

Dunblane

I remember where I was when 9/11 happened, when Diana died and when the queen died.

Diana's death - my partner ran up to tell me. I think I might have recently discovered I was pregnant with my first baby.

9/11 - was collecting my son from preschool and the staff had put the TV on. Rushed home and saw the second plane go into the tower.

*Diana - I was upset barney was cancelled (I was four/five)
*@ByKindOpalPoet my DD was 22 months at the time and our routine on Sunday morning was to get up with her and stick on the Sunday omnibus edition of the Tellytubbies, which would occupy her while DH and I slowly woke up with copious coffee. I was sitting there, dimly aware that Tellytubbies seemed delayed for some reason before gradually realising what was going on.

Dunblane - I was at home, still on maternity leave, so I used to leave breakfast tele on all morning. I think I must have been still very hormonal because I couldn't stop crying as the news was breaking.

Apollo 11 moon landing. It was my 7th birthday. We got up early to watch it and I was given my presents to open. I literally did not know where to look because I was excited about my presents (got my first watch) but didn't want to look away from the screen for a second.

Diana’s death - waking up hungover whilst a student in Manchester
Twin Towers - on holiday in Egypt
Thatcher’s resignation - while in a Y10 History class (teacher put it on for us to watch!)
The Queen’s death - while driving into Ikea!

The Dunblane school shooting :-(

Think I'm a couple of years younger as I don't remember JFK but cried when Bobby Kennedy was killed. Remember being horrified that he was shot in the head. I was 10.

The biggest event was, for me, the moon landings. Stayed up through the night to watch, got Parents out of bed to see Armstrong leave the capsule.
I thought everything here would change.

9/11. I was walking home from work and was mildly surprised to see police horses out. I thought there must be a football match and trouble from that.

Then popped in to a corner shop and they had a TV on silent with the planes going into the tower and the headline, Terrorists Attack America. Went home and turned on the BBC.

I'd never heard of the Twin Towers before so didn't know they were supposed to be iconic.

Death of Elvis; death of Diana; death of John Smith, former Scottish First Minister; 9/11.

Also, the atrocity at Dunblane.

Hillsborough
Diana
9/11
7/7
Thatcher’s death
Queen’s death

Princess Diana’s death
9/11

The Ethiopian famine in 1984. I was 6 and I can still remember seeing the pictures on the news.

There have been a lot since, but that's the earliest I think!

It's interesting how some news stories have a place attached to them. When I was a child people spoke about where they were when JFK was shot. That was before my time but the only stories that were as shocking as that were Diana dying and 911.

I remember where I was when some other things happened but I don't think they were quite as epoch defining. E.g. watching Newsround as a child when the Challenger disaster happened (Newsround broke the story in the UK), watching the 1997 election coverage as a student and waiting to see if our constituency changed colour, sitting at lunch at work when London won the Olympics then 7/7 the next day, Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and my DC's first tooth falling out, the Queen dying and it being announced at the theatre on my DC's birthday.

President Kennedy's assassination - although I'll be jiggered if I know where was I when I heard of it. Somewhere else anyway.

Diana's death. I was at home with a young baby, and my Dad rang me to say had I got the TV on. I had, but we were mid Teletubby marathon.

9/11 - in a friends garden in glorious sunshine, and then hearing the news bulletins starting on her kitchen radio. Barely slept that night thinking of those people inside the planes, that really messed with my head for a long time after.

Diana's death
9/11
The 7/7 London bombings

Diane’s death and 9/11.

John Smith died in 1994, I was a student at Glasgow at the time (as was one of his daughters) and the news flew round the campus, I found out in the library. He was never First Minister, the devolution referendum didn't happen until 1997.

*Cumbria shootings - at work
*@NigelHarmansNewWife

We were on holiday in the Lake District and had been out for a walk all day. In the afternoon when we got back to the car DH had the news on the radio while we were taking our boots off.

They were giving a time line of events and where all the shootings had taken place and it was getting closer to where we were. Just starting to think "Shit is this still happening" when they got to the end of the story and we realised it was now, thankfully, over.

Princess Diana having been injured in a car accident. I can remember clearly where I was and what I was doing, and I 'knew' that it was serious.
9/11. I can remember clearly where I was and what I was doing.

9/11 is the one that I remember most clearly. My colleague's housemate called him and told him about the first plane hitting. Then we went to a room with TVs on all the different news channels and watched the rest unfold.

I also remember watching Lockerbie and the Berlin Wall coming down as a teenager.

Also 7/7 because I thought DH had gone into London that day, it turned out he had gone to a different office and was fine but I was a bit worried until I could get hold of him.

I was shopping at longsight market, we heard it from there but it wasn't till later we realised what had gone on. Yes I agree, the rebuilding was long overdue.

Death of Diana - my mother woke me to tell me, it was just before I went back to uni

9/11 - at work in London. Internet was down, no TV so we heard it all play out on the radio. I’ll never forget the atmosphere on the tube home that day, people had the Evening standard with the pic of the towers on fire all over the front page

Grenfell fire - on holiday in France watching French news reports

Death of Queen - at home

Dunblane I def remember discussing at school (sixth form) but unlike the above I don’t recall specifically hearing about it