29th July 1981 - anyone remember it?

[raleighnut]

Great day, one of the local pubs refused to have a television set at all ever in the place so was quite quiet until word got round, we all got pished as parrots as Mark (the landlord) had applied for an all day licence and extension, great boozer. There was also a charity box on the bar and if anyones (very early) mobile went off they had to put 20p into it.

 

[robjh]

.....and if anyones (very early) mobile went off they had to put 20p into it.

Mobile phones in 1981? Bleedin'ell, you were advanced round your way!

 

[EltonFrog]

I remember it very well, my mother left home for the last time to go to hospital, seven days later she was dead.

 

[raleighnut]

Mobile phones in 1981? Bleedin'ell, you were advanced round your way!

First one I saw was in about 80 but that had a battery case like an old army field telephone, That pub was my local til 2002 when I moved so the charity box was probably a lot later plus we all staggered out of the place pretty much every time we left The Magazine.
Its now been pulled down but I drank in there from 78 or so local from 80 on

 

[Dave Davenport]

I was on call out as a refrigeration engineer, think I got double time and day in lieu

It's funny the things you remember.

 

[marknotgeorge]

We had a street party, I was 5!
I dressed up as superman, in blue pajamas, red pants and a cape made out of red curtains. My mum has a photo somewhere.

I bet the little gits dressed up as C&D won.

 

[TVC]

There was a street party. I was 14. I didn't attend.

Saturday Night Fever was on the telly in the evening. I was 14. I didn't watch it

 

[Beebo]

I bet the little gits dressed up as C&D won.

How did you guess?

 

[MontyVeda]

street party for me... I'll have been 12. My most vivid memory was thinking how blinkin' sad my dad was... he set up his tripod in front of the TV and took photographs of the wedding ceremony . In the wake of the celebrations was a load of girls getting Diana haircuts

 

[Bobby Mhor]

How could I forget it...
I had my Stag that night ..

I got married the next day to the lovely now Mrs Mhor..
It'll be 33 happily married years tomorrow..




that's what she says

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I actually have a better memory of the launch of the first space shuttle the previous April.

 

[subaqua]

yeah remember the housing estate we lived on and every street bar ours having a street party. there were some miserable gits on that road. Lee taylor let me play with the evel knievel launcher most of the day as I had fixed it when his dad had said it was unfixable. then we went to Tree Den, a small patch of waste land with a row of 4 trees on it that you could climb at one end and get to the other end at height ( about 12 foot looking back) . from the middle tree you could see into Hayley ( surname forgotten) big sisters bedroom .

I was 9 .

 

[Deleted member 23692]

I spent all day in the pub... that's all I can remember

 

[galaxy]

I was 10 and lived in Sunderland in those days, my Dad had just tought me how to steal my 1st Ford Escort.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Prince Harry today saying to himself.."ah, the day Will's dad married my mum