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1961 - Day out
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http://comp.uark.edu/~dsears/photos/Eileen61hastings/ |
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August
6th, 1961, Russia launched its second man into space. I was disappointed that Mum and Dad had
arranged a trip to Hastings. Normally
I would have loved it. But that day I
would rather have spent at home with the radio. Instead I took my transistor radio (which I still had in 1969, see
here) and kept it close to my ear.
Until now, we had been able to listen to the radio for the entire
duration of the space flights, they were short enough, but Gherman Titov was
in space for a day so we had to go about our normal business, and even go to
bed. It seemed very odd to me, to be
doing these things while a man was risking his life in space. |
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We
made a lot of trips to Hastings. We
liked the Cliff Lifts, and the caves, and especially the model village. Strangely, we never visited the site of
the Battle of Hastings. I wish we
had. I have a plaster figure of a
pirate that I bought at the caves when I was 12. It was a present for Mum and it came to me when she died. |
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Mum’s plaster pirate from Hastings. |
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There
are pictures in this set from a separate visit to the town. As some point I should sort them out. |
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Sites describing the flight of Vostok 2 and
Gherman Titov (click here, and here) |
