Tag: history

Everything was black and white in 1952

Share what you know about the year you were born.

Everything was black and white

A new Queen on the throne

She heard the news in Kenya

And had to travel home.

The Olympics were in Finland

The place that we’ve just flown

It was Paavo Nurmi

Who took the world by storm.

At home we still had rationing

Of eggs and butter, meat.

It also covered sugar

And sadly children’s sweets.

It was a cold, cold winter

They had most awful smog

And earlier in Lynmouth

They had a dreadful flood.

Newcastle in football

Won the FA Cup.

Arsenal in the football league

Topped division one.

The only cars you saw were black

There weren’t too many planes

And if you were a baby

Then you’d have a great big pram.

So much to remember – where do I begin.

What major historical events do you remember?

So much to remember

Where do I begin?

Perhaps with John F. Kennedy

The day they did him in.

Or a small step for an astronaut

A leap for all mankind

Armstrong was the first of us

To step upon the moon.

Years of IRA bombing

Terrorist attacks

Bombs in Guildford, Aldershot

Brought it close to home.

Then there’s Margaret Thatcher

The cow that gave no milk

A war with Argentina

She took the Falklands back.

They released Mandela

A great man was set free

Achieved their independence

And did it peacefully.

In eighty nine the Berlin Wall

Came finally tumbling down

We never thought we’d see that

But that’s what happened then.

Then there’s 9/11

How could we forget?

Aircraft striking those twin towers

While we watched horror struck.

Then of course there’s COVID

The bug that changed our world.

Surely we imagined that?

Have I remembered wrong?