JANE’S JOTTINGS
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Where were you?
Memories of iconic moments
The
super loud sounds of “I Want You Back” through my of remember watching it at home with my
open bedroom window from a passing car radio family. Grandpa had recently died and we’d
was the first sign of news that something was up, confirmed have been sad to think that he didn’t see this
when the paper arrived. It looked like my recent Jottings on truly iconic moment.
Michael Jackson’s visit to the 02 had been tempting tragic fate.
All very sad. Fast forward to Sunday 31st August, 1997,
when Princess Diana died. The fact that our
Perhaps I’ll always remember household doesn’t “do” early morning news,
Where I Was When I Heard It Had backfired badly. After a puzzling,
Happened. mournful reference during
morning church service from
the vicar, I quietly asked a fellow
parishioner what had happened,
to be told of the previous night’s
car accident in Paris.
Mind you, morning news
Many years earlier, at broadcasts couldn’t have helped
home, I was the first on 16th October, 1987, when
to hear about JFK’s we first realised it wasn’t only
shooting. My parents our bedside radio that wasn’t
didn’t really believe it working, or our lights, or our
until they heard it for themselves, for reasons that will become electricity, or the whole street’s electricity , but the whole of the
clear later. south of England’s power had been knocked out
overnight by the Great Storm.
There had been a brand new science fiction programme due to
start the next day, “Dr.Who”. As a youngster, my main concern was But back to JFK. You see, my parents perhaps
that the series had to be delayed for a week to accommodate recalled the time I once saw on the news a report
the resulting news coverage of the President’s death. that viewers, by pulling a nylon stocking over
their screens could see in colour!! The date?
And how about the amazing moon landing in July1969? I sort April 1!
Jane Webb has lived in Eltham since '85 with her husband and daughter. She has taught at several local primary schools'
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