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Old 18th Jul 2014, 20:50
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I watched the landing of the Lunar Module sitting in one of the 2 television rooms in the Crossed Keys Club at BKY. Whilst waiting for something to happen and listening intently to the commentaries from various experts, I quaffed a few pints. This led to me falling asleep and on waking, found that precisely nothing had happened and many of the audience had disappeared, so went to bed instead!

Later that morning I bought a Daily Mirror which had a colour picture of the event on the front page - still got it somewhere. This was a novelty because back home on the mainland, the newspaper pictures were still b&w and for a short time after.

I consider myself to be really lucky to have 'been around' when such momentous events took place. Wasn't it a fascinating time when the Human Race really progressed in many of the sciences and isn't it a shame that events have taken quite different turns to those we expected?
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