Summer of 69

married in april of 69 at 21 so it was a long hot summer of married bliss [i think].
we had a newly built house courtesy of the bank of mum and dad but no new furniture to put in it. parents in law moved to a furnished house so we had the luxury of their furniture until they wanted it back.
the moon landing happened on my dad's birthday and i remember watching it on our old, not very reliable tele .......... black and white, very small screen. very difficult to make things out.
seems a long time ago now - well i suppose it was - almost 50 years!

69 was the year I passed my 11+ and was one of 4 children from my much loved primary school that went up to Grammar. Spent the next 5 years lost, lonely and confused. Do wonder how much happier I would have been if I had gone off to the local secondary school with my friends.
I grew up and got over it! If I'd known then what I know now .... ?

I was 21 in the September of that year and got engaged in June!! Happy days!!

DD1 arrived safe and sound if a little lightweight Summer of '69.

I was 9 so probably out playing on my roller skates with my friends! I remember watching the moon landing on tv too.

'69...I was 22 - just landed dream job in Bloomsbury publishers ....dropped acid at weekends...lived in Georgian flat in Islington...summer in Morocco .....Does anyone remember the Island Queen in Noel Road Islington? - with life size puppets suspended from the ceiling.....it was all a bit de trop in '69...before I had children of course....Two years later when I did, with maternity leave at 6 weeks and irresponsible husband, things somewhat crashed.

Just left school got my first job so had money in my pocket for the first time and another first a pair of 'hotpants' thought i was it.

I saw the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park. I was only fourteen and remember looking out at a sea of beautiful people dressed in velvet and beads. I was absolutely overwhelmed by it, and only being fourteen, felt as if I was on the outside looking in. I remember when Mick Jagger released thousands of butterflies into the crowd, in memory of Brian Jones. If I close my eyes I am back there, and it it as vivid as ever.

Got married! Moved to new house, new town, new job!

Still school age and holidaying with my parents in Scotland. I can remember sitting in the residents tv lounge of the Glencoe hotel (way before every room had a telly!) and watching the moon landing in black and white.

I was 16 and spent the summer lazing about in Ireland. I was supposed to be changing my mind about starting a cadet nursing course, according to my parents. I did go on the course but admitted 3 years later that my dad was right, nursing wasn't for me. It took me another 24 years before I went to university & discovered social work was my ideal job

I was 24 and met dh. He took me to see Hair at the Shaftesbury Theatre London. a bit racy because of it's nude scenes??. Shopping at Biba's, mini skirts. Very short Vidal Sassoon hair cut. Benny Hill, Up Pompeii and Lulu singing "boom bang-a-bang" in the Eurovision Song Contest, very happy days.

I was 9 and spent the summer with my grandmother and gramps in South Wales like I did every year, that year in particular because of the moon landing, arrived speaking like a londoner and left speaking with a Welsh accent so many good memories...... ?

My first child was born - true love - nuff said!

Thinking it was all over for me. Then on the 1st November met the man I've now been married to for nearly 45 years.

I was expecting my first child,I remember the hot summer,she was born in August!
Had moved to Sweden to live six monthe before,and everything was so new and exciting, those were the days!

I was 7 and enjoying playing on the beach in South Wales with my older brother and sisters.

Guessing I'm a bit younger than a majority on here but wasn't born summer of '69!

Aged 17, half-way through my A-level years, living at home. I remember watching the moon landing with my mum, and going out into the garden to gaze up at the moon in wonder.

I'd just finished lower sixth form so I had no exam results to worry about and no job to look for. I probably had a great summer but can't remember anything special. Summer of '71 was very different!

Was in hospital for my 20th birthday, in the August, with glandular fever. Last summer my Mum was alive. Remember Ultravox and Vienna on the radio.

I finally worked out that this was the year that we lived in Aberdeen! My H doing a teacher training course, me 29 and pregnant, and my son's first year in school. We lived in a strange 'bungalow' with an upper floor and a basement....I don't remember much about the town except the hospital where I had my baby (Matron very strict!) - and the botanical gardens which I loved. No oil then.

Met my best friend at secondary school started wearing cheese cloth, bell bottoms and listening to Motown music. Still my best friend now but she lives in colarado. Fantastic summer hazy lazy days remember it with fondness.

I was 14 and still at school - sad thing is that it does not seem that long ago!

I gave birth to my eldest daughter in March 69, then sat with her on my lap later in the Summer watching the moon landing.