General Chat

1984 The start of the year-long miners' strike, the result of one woman's vendetta against a trade union. Arthur Scargill warned of a hit list of 50 pits (he underestimated - it was over 150). The year that resulted in the much increased dependency upon imported fuels to this country and a serious trend towards the depletion of natural gas stocks owing to their use for power generation, a change of a great deal more significance than a few thousand telephone jobs in the Home Counties to India. I remember it well.

I was only 11 in 1984. joanne

the silver fern was just down the road from the great harry.now called the ferryman.near the shore is a pub called the rising sun...used to go to brookfield seniors school.long time ago......XX(:

1984 was the year i left school 20 yrs ago and it still seems like yesterday To celebrate we are having a school reunion and have been told to dig out old leg warmers and ra ra skirts, lol I cant wait, lol Allie

i was only 10 in 1984

1984 was when me and my boyfriend (now husband) went on our first holiday abroad together, to Aegina in Greece. I remember the music was George Michael's Careless Whisper and Eartha Kitt's Where is my baby? which were played everywhere. nell

1984 is the year my middle son was born, blue eyed and blond hair now 20 years on he still has blue eyes but two tone hair black at the sides and red in the middle, a blushing skunk!!!! any one from Exeter will now know who I am or at least who I'm on about... :))) Bev

oh my god kate i remember now i was i size 8 and didnt have to color my hair and yes i didnt know either the joys of having teenagers. thats wot was good about the 80s , no worries lol.

Sept 27th 1984 my first child was born, I weighed less than I do now BEFORE he was born (boo-hoo), my hair was all one colour (!!!) and I hadn't yet endured two stroppy teenagers!! But I wouldn't change 1984 for the world.

Blimey Steedie, now I really feel old!! Remember 1984 very well, I was 20 and we got married. And still married .... !! Mandy :)

Afternoon Linda, doesn't that seem a long while ago?. remember seeing the miners strike on the news at that time!.

1984 they were good the 80s, my hubby was about to do a second tour in the falklands, we were 20 , and a year later met each other.

Lisa, I love Warsash, whereabouts id the Silver Fern? My Mum used to like going there as a treat for crab sandwiches, I think somewhere near the water. Ann Glos

My daughter was 2yrs, and it was a lovely time,wish I could turn the clock back,many times!.

and a size 8

i was 14 and in love with John Taylor

i wasnt born!!!! lol

I was 10 turning 11 at the end of the year. I remember writing all the words to Madonna's "Like a Virgin" so I could learn them but would just hum the word Virgin as I didn't know what it meant really and thought it was a bit naughty!

1984 i lived in warsash hampshire near locksheath,with my parents who owned the silver fern public house.aged 13.spotty ,skinny,no boyfriend.not a great era for me.just great music.LOLxxxxxxxx(:

I thought the thread was going to be about how we are now living under the circumstances (Thought Police (political correctness); doublespeak (spin); eradication of history and heritage (House of Lords reform, foxhunting); and everything else that George Orwell predicted so accurately, other than he got the date 13 years too early!