Off Topic Top ten significant historic events....

I cordially invite you to move to Leamington Spa Ubes, we are clearly caught in a bit of a time warp up here.

1. 90% of the time our post is delivered by 9.00 am, by the same bloke most days. And I know his name.
(2. Garbage? Have you gone all American on us? We still have rubbish up here)
4. Regularly see a milk float on its rounds. We recently signed up to deliveries again after a very effective doorstep pitch from a local farm. Don't think these blokes have an electric float, but the milk is delivered by 5 am twice a week.
7. We have two proper old style sweet shops. As I don't personally patronise them I cannot claim they sell anything for a penny.
9. Again, regular sightings of rag and bone men (probably more scrap metal collectors now). They have a van rather than a horse and cart, but retain a (prerecorded) incomprehensible 'rag and bone' call complete with weird trumpet noise.

Of course we also have child chimney sweeps, rampant polio and pea Souper Smogs.

 

The top three for me are ( in date order):-

1) US Civil Rights campaign & Martin Luther King.
2) Russian (Warsaw Pact) invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The day many realised that Communism wouldn't work & left a big hole to fill our asperations.
3) Nelson Mandella & the dismantling of apartheid.

The three heroes of my lifetime being reflected by the above:-

Martin Luther King
Alexander Dubcek
Nelson Mandella

 

it is interesting read other peoples' opinions and to be honest the majority make me think, oh yes. remember as a lad in Scotland we had a coal bunker and the coalman came, arrived in Brisbane when I was 12 and wow, no fires needed here . keep them coming, great to see and read them

 

In my lifetime - note I am of the Nines / SB vintage

1 . Blair / Bush(1) & (2 ) and the eternal fallout from their pathetic sham crusades
2. Thatcher(ism), controversially, but it had a galvanising (positive) effect on me. See Tebbit's bike
3. AIDS
4. Seeing the Human League and the Smiths on TOTP's - truly shocking at the time
5. Mobile technology - good thing / not a good thing
6. The Internet - the destruction of learning and the debasement of free thought
7. The internal combustion engine - granted before my time but an unavoidable fact of life
8. Oil / War / Religion - wide ranging yes but these evil corrosives are always with us
9. Capitalism v Communism - no one can ever admit defeat
10. Rangers finishing as London 's top team - never again in my lifetime
Bonus
11. My first pint