All will remember were they were that day at 1,51 pm.

 

Myself,at work listening to Talk Sport and Mike Parry broke the news

Closed from the outside world as we were in an all day range plan meeting at a hotel's conference room.

Then we got the call from the office to put a tv on. Most of the people in the room had relatives in Manhattan who were ringing us from their land lines to find out what the hell was going on in their own town.

And I admit to being transfixed to the tv watching people jumping out.

I was in double science at school if memory serves.

I was on Fishermans beach, Albufeira Portugal on a lads holiday. Popped into a Dutch bar to get a cold one sometime in the afternoon and they had it on TV - it was surreal.Airport security at Faro was a nightmare coming home on the 13th Sept 2001.

About to get on a coach that was taking us to Heathrow for a flight to America

About to get on a coach that was taking us to Heathrow for a flight to America

 

 

So go on half a tale ,what happened?

I was on a building site in lytham st annes....

A spark came running in and said 'fuck me,someones just flown a plane into the world trade ceenter in japan!'

Then a bit later the same pillock comes running and says 'fuck me,some dozy fucker,rubber necking at the crash has flown into the other one!'...he wasnt the brightest!!

 

Had moyles on,in his afternoon days,they just played songs all day after that....

had a meeting in horwich 11am then got home and had sky news on and watched it all as it happend in my liveing room .remember telling our mavis get to netto and fill the celler full of tined food we will be at war soon

 

my mum was in Vegas at the time and cause thay grounded all the planes for days thay put the hotels up 50% now that was takeing the piss

i got sent home from work at 9.30am ill thats day, cant remember what i was watching on tv but it cut of and went straight to breaking news and watched it all happen. didnt seem real at the time.

 

same with diana, got home from ritzy, sat in bed watching some crap film and cut off straight to the news....

I had finished 6th form at 12 (by finished I mean didnt bother with the afternoon lessons) and went home.

 

Got home about 1 and sat watching the news for hours until I went to the conny club about 7 as we had a snooker match. Everyone was saying they cant think of anything else that had such an impact in all their lives (they were a lot owder than me).

 

I do remember thinking though, I wonder if our game will get called off.

 

Crazy shit!

Was working on the new Tesco at Middlebrook, went for lunch and it came on the radio, still sends me cold now when I think about it.

Was working on the new Tesco at Middlebrook, went for lunch and it came on the radio, still sends me cold now when I think about it.

 

Frozen food department?

All will remember were they were that day at 1,51 pm.

 

Myself,at work listening to Talk Sport and Mike Parry broke the news

Just started a new job and me and my new assistant were trying to watch events on dial up internet, which was very busy

Mexico, surrounded by yanks.

 

I shit you not, by teatime, they were all back in the pool playing water volleyball and chanting U S A.

 

Flying back a few days later, the pilot warned passengers not to be alarmed by the fighter jet escort along the eastern seaboard.

 

I assumed it was a movie when I flicked the telly on in my room that morning.

I was sat in a bar (The Lindian House) in Lindos, Rhodes. Nik the bar owner came in and said switch the TV over. About 2 mins later we watched the 2nd plane hit the Tower. Ended up sat on that stool all day watching it unfurl. Folk kept coming in to watch it. Nik was bitching cos they weren't buying drinks

I was sat in a bar (The Lindian House) in Lindos, Rhodes. Nik the bar owner came in and said switch the TV over. About 2 mins later we watched the 2nd plane hit the Tower. Ended up sat on that stool all day watching it unfurl. Folk kept coming in to watch it. Nik was bitching cos they weren't buying drinks

Not even downing Black Tower?

sat at work, dicking round on the www when the news broke on the BBC. No more work done that day

I was lost (literally) in sunny, leafy country lanes near the Wrekin; the contrast between my surroundings and what was coming over the car radio could not have been greater...which made it all the more poignant really

@ work

Had day off work and watched it all unfolding.

 

The thing that sticks in my mind is an expert they had on TV, informing us that the towers would not come down, as they were designed to withstand stuff like this.

 

About 15 minutes later one of the towers crumbled, and i spent all day waiting for this expert to come back on, but he didn't.

Had day off work and watched it all unfolding.

 

 

 

Alf, does this mean you had prior knowledge?

Alf, does this mean you had prior knowledge?

 

 

FFS the FBI will be monitoring, loose lips n all that......

I was in Ibiza. Was lay on the bed face down fucked from the night before when my missus called from home to tell me what was going on.

 

My mates had managed to get up and had been down to Mambo's. They burst into the apartment and we played a game of 'You'll never guess fuckin what...'

 

The first time we saw the footage was from the street playing in a bar in San An. Always made it surreal for me, almost like I didn't see it proper cos it couldn't have happened.

 

On another note my old man's cousin lives in New York. He had some friends living in Manhattan who were writers. Some weeks later they put down in words their experience of running through the streets away from the dust cloud fearing for their lives. Powerful read first hand from someone who knows how to write proper.

I was trucking through Arizona, in a shitty old Peterbilt with no radio....we had played Walsall in the League Cup, and I was trying to get the result on the BBC world service on a shortwave radio, got the result carried on trucking it wasn't until I got back home and called my brother to talk about the game that he told me...then I put the telly on and saw the disaster.....

I was working in Warrington. We didn't have the wireless on so the seriousness did'nt hit until I was on my way home. Got as far as the Cart and Horses and went in to watch the news. Was there for ages and had to get a lift home.

On 11 September 2001, I was at the Reebok Stadium watching Bolton beat Walsall 4-3 after extra time in the league cup. Colin Hendry got sent off. Ricketts came off the bench to score Bolton's 1st. Henrik Pederson scored the winner.