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We had a few days stay down in Mousehole a few years back and spent every evening in The Ship Inn on the quayside. It was quite eerie to be honest which was aided by the fact it was late in the year and pretty miserable weather wise. I can remember my dad (who had half shares in a boat at the time) being quite distraught at the news of 19th Dec 1981 but I hadn’t twigged that it was the same place until we got down there and spent our first evening there. So yes Dicky, I share your feeling.
The other one that sticks in my mind is Zebrugge. I can vividly remember being in floods of tears when my mum told me about some young boy from Ilkeston who was on a day trip with his parents who promised him sweets if he behaved himself. He was unfortunately orphaned that fateful night. Amazing how these things stick with you thirty years on.
Disasters from history on 22:01 - Oct 17 by Cooperman
We had a few days stay down in Mousehole a few years back and spent every evening in The Ship Inn on the quayside. It was quite eerie to be honest which was aided by the fact it was late in the year and pretty miserable weather wise. I can remember my dad (who had half shares in a boat at the time) being quite distraught at the news of 19th Dec 1981 but I hadn’t twigged that it was the same place until we got down there and spent our first evening there. So yes Dicky, I share your feeling.
The other one that sticks in my mind is Zebrugge. I can vividly remember being in floods of tears when my mum told me about some young boy from Ilkeston who was on a day trip with his parents who promised him sweets if he behaved himself. He was unfortunately orphaned that fateful night. Amazing how these things stick with you thirty years on.
I went to Mousehole 3 years ago and saw the plaque of remembrance on the Ship Inn. Very moving. Great pub as well.
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Disasters from history on 22:24 - Oct 17 with 5804 views
Disasters from history on 22:01 - Oct 17 by Cooperman
We had a few days stay down in Mousehole a few years back and spent every evening in The Ship Inn on the quayside. It was quite eerie to be honest which was aided by the fact it was late in the year and pretty miserable weather wise. I can remember my dad (who had half shares in a boat at the time) being quite distraught at the news of 19th Dec 1981 but I hadn’t twigged that it was the same place until we got down there and spent our first evening there. So yes Dicky, I share your feeling.
The other one that sticks in my mind is Zebrugge. I can vividly remember being in floods of tears when my mum told me about some young boy from Ilkeston who was on a day trip with his parents who promised him sweets if he behaved himself. He was unfortunately orphaned that fateful night. Amazing how these things stick with you thirty years on.
Goose pimples reading that. My parents were returning to the UK that night from Germany. They always went from Zeebrugge but for some unbeknown reason they had booked an earlier ferry from Oostende on that day. Not that I knew. It was later that evening that they called to say they were safe.
Disasters from history on 22:24 - Oct 17 by longlostjack
Goose pimples reading that. My parents were returning to the UK that night from Germany. They always went from Zeebrugge but for some unbeknown reason they had booked an earlier ferry from Oostende on that day. Not that I knew. It was later that evening that they called to say they were safe.
That’s good to hear; fate occasionally deals out a good hand.
It's awful when people get killed going to help others, especially volunteers, Mumbles RNLI have a similar story in trying to rescue those on the Santampa at Sker.
Aberfan for me though, even going there 50 years later is pretty emotional and the way the community was treated afterwards just makes it worse.
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Disasters from history on 10:09 - Oct 18 with 5645 views
Mine is probably the first one I really remember. Always loved football from a young age, but remember watching the events on a Saturday tea time of the Bradford fire, on this model in my kitchen as I ate fish fingers (even remember the meal).
Will always stick with me, and the way my mother could not explain to me what was going on as she was too horrified, My father then sitting me down explaining that a lot of people died.
The Zeebrugge disaster also stands out too, as did Hillsborough from that era.
The 7/7 bombings, and the Twin Tower events though will probably be the JFK moment for my lifetime, mainly due to the sheer visibility of the events.
Watching the twin towers come down live on tv sat in a hotel lobby in Majorca with about 80 others guests in total silence, then going to the airport to fly home and the airport was bonkers they wouldn't let you carry anything on board the plane and people were dumping things in big bins there and then, the whole flight back was in total silence and I don't think one person moved. Went to NY a about 18 months later and stayed in the Hilton Millennium hotel on the 41st floor straight opposite the 9/11 site and being able to look in was pretty sad it just looked like one big scrap yard.
Went to Bridge over the river kwai and the British graveyards and was totally overcome and wept openly for the first time for people I never knew, seeing the British names and the ages and some of the soldiers 21,22,23 years old and miles away from home must have been a living nightmare.
R.I.P You Brave Men
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