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I remember this. My grandmother was caught up in it coming back from holiday. Back then there were no mobile phones and she couldn’t hear her land line phone s

by setquk 8y ago

I remember this. My grandmother was caught up in it coming back from holiday. Back then there were no mobile phones and she couldn’t hear her land line phone so everyone was panicking and we had to go to her house to see if she was ok. She was making some tea when we got there and shrugged it off as a minor disruption to her schedule. A lot has changed technology-wise since then. For the people who don’t know, you could smoke on London Underground back then and the place was littered with cigarette butts still burning in some cases. It was just a matter of time.

interfixus 8y ago
Oh yes. I was living around London at the time, and very well remember being stranded at some station when all trains were halted, shortly after I had gotten on board at King's Cross. As for mobile phones, I actually believe there were some at the time. They started appearing sometime during the latter years of the eighties, to begin with as rather expensive status symbols, conspicuously flashed by the yuppie mob. Tangential: Being stranded on the tube was not necessarily a waste of time. Not too long before, I was in a stationary train in a tunnel near Liverpool Street Station, in muted light for the better part of an hour. A woman in her eighties (who said: "I don't like old people") told me fascinating stories about the bombing of London that she had experienced. Only gradually did I realize we were talking about bombings of the first world war. Zeppeliners. Never heard of that before, and found it hard to credit, but of course, everything checked out when I looked it up.
walshemj 8y ago
Me to I owe my life to DND as my commute home would normally have taken me straight into the heart of the fire - luckily I had left early to play DnD. Good job that my parents had not watched the news that night as I didn't get home till 12 and they would have been worried sick.

by setquk 8y ago

interfixus 8y ago

Oh yes. I was living around London at the time, and very well remember being stranded at some station when all trains were halted, shortly after I had gotten on board at King's Cross. As for mobile phones, I actually believe there were some at the time. They started appearing sometime during the latter years of the eighties, to begin with as rather expensive status symbols, conspicuously flashed by the yuppie mob. Tangential: Being stranded on the tube was not necessarily a waste of time. Not too long before, I was in a stationary train in a tunnel near Liverpool Street Station, in muted light for the better part of an hour. A woman in her eighties (who said: "I don't like old people") told me fascinating stories about the bombing of London that she had experienced. Only gradually did I realize we were talking about bombings of the first world war. Zeppeliners. Never heard of that before, and found it hard to credit, but of course, everything checked out when I looked it up.

walshemj 8y ago

Me to I owe my life to DND as my commute home would normally have taken me straight into the heart of the fire - luckily I had left early to play DnD. Good job that my parents had not watched the news that night as I didn't get home till 12 and they would have been worried sick.