If you were born 100 years earlier...
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But your life followed a path as close as possible to your current one, how different would your experiences have been?
b. 1878, grew up in a fishing village, spent a couple of years with the local regiment and would have perhaps served in the Second Boer War. Joined the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation company as an Engineer. Probably would have been on mail ships mostly and spent my time visiting far-flung corners of the Empire. My interest in flying would be pretty much non-existent, or I would be watching as an observer like I do now with SpaceX etc. Certainly wouldn't have been rich enough to be involved. Shooting and stalking hasn't changed much in 100 years. My children would have been born around the start of WWI, and the boy would be 28 at the outbreak of WWII. My life expectancy would be around 55, so I'd be dead before then.
So as far as career and hobbies go, not much has changed in 100 years for me!
Context: Currently reading Heaven's Command by Jan Morris and couldn't get to sleep last night.
b. 1878, grew up in a fishing village, spent a couple of years with the local regiment and would have perhaps served in the Second Boer War. Joined the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation company as an Engineer. Probably would have been on mail ships mostly and spent my time visiting far-flung corners of the Empire. My interest in flying would be pretty much non-existent, or I would be watching as an observer like I do now with SpaceX etc. Certainly wouldn't have been rich enough to be involved. Shooting and stalking hasn't changed much in 100 years. My children would have been born around the start of WWI, and the boy would be 28 at the outbreak of WWII. My life expectancy would be around 55, so I'd be dead before then.
So as far as career and hobbies go, not much has changed in 100 years for me!
Context: Currently reading Heaven's Command by Jan Morris and couldn't get to sleep last night.
Born in poverty in the Midlands, lived in a factory owned house with 10 children, worked at the glassworks as a gatherer, could only read and write with great difficulty, signed my children's birth certificates with a cross.
Smoked and gambled throughout my life and died in 1903. Worked for the same company throughout my life, and lived in the same house, 136 Scotch Row, Smethwick.
Smoked and gambled throughout my life and died in 1903. Worked for the same company throughout my life, and lived in the same house, 136 Scotch Row, Smethwick.
Edited by Robbo 27 on Monday 6th February 10:43
Edited by Robbo 27 on Monday 6th February 11:18
The past holds nothing good for me
Born, live and die in absolute poverty. having just missed out on being officially a slave by circa 40ish years, chances are I would have been indentured into servitude or some other loophole to not technically class me as a slave.
All of this whist the white man lives in his nice house overlooking the plantation sipping sherry whilst we slowly die of thirst,hunger and exhaustion in the relentless heat.
Yet he will steal away our mothers, sisters and daughters that he desires at any given moment to rape to his hearts content.
I'd rather expend my efforts into looking forwards rather than backwards.
Born, live and die in absolute poverty. having just missed out on being officially a slave by circa 40ish years, chances are I would have been indentured into servitude or some other loophole to not technically class me as a slave.
All of this whist the white man lives in his nice house overlooking the plantation sipping sherry whilst we slowly die of thirst,hunger and exhaustion in the relentless heat.
Yet he will steal away our mothers, sisters and daughters that he desires at any given moment to rape to his hearts content.
I'd rather expend my efforts into looking forwards rather than backwards.
SystemParanoia said:
The past holds nothing good for me
All of this whist the white man lives in his nice house overlooking the plantation sipping sherry whilst we slowly die of thirst,hunger and exhaustion in the relentless heat.
Yet he will steal away our mothers, sisters and daughters that he desires at any given moment to rape to his hearts content.
I'd rather expend my efforts into looking forwards rather than backwards.
Did they have plantations in the West Midlands?All of this whist the white man lives in his nice house overlooking the plantation sipping sherry whilst we slowly die of thirst,hunger and exhaustion in the relentless heat.
Yet he will steal away our mothers, sisters and daughters that he desires at any given moment to rape to his hearts content.
I'd rather expend my efforts into looking forwards rather than backwards.
Dr Jekyll said:
Did they have plantations in the West Midlands?
Not many black people in the UK 100 years ago, i'd have been born in jamacia.had I been fortuitously born in the uk 100 years ago,
I'd have attempted in every way to model myself on a certain Dr. Allan Glaisyer Minns Born 1858 – Died 1930
tty time of it back then 
If I'd been born in 1863 rather than 1963 on the same family farm, there would've been work for all my close and extended family (25 employees in 1900, 1 employee in 2000). I probably would have spent my entire working life there and been buried in the family plot in the woods a long while ago.
Born a farmer's son in 1860. My ancestors were long-lived, so I might have made it to the end of WW2. I'll live through all the great inventions and achievements of the 19th and 20th century, but they would have affected me very little, apart from the advances in farm mechanisation - and even that only in my later years.
Robbo 27 said:
Born in poverty in the Midlands, lived in a factory owned house with 10 children, worked at the glassworks as a gatherer, could only read and write with great difficulty, signed my children's birth certificates with a cross.
Smoked and gambled throughout my life and died in 1903. Worked for the same company throughout my life, and lived in the same house, 136 Scotch Row, Smethwick.
Similar story here, except it'd have been the Coal Mines of the East Midlands for me. If the mine didn't kill me then WW1 would haveSmoked and gambled throughout my life and died in 1903. Worked for the same company throughout my life, and lived in the same house, 136 Scotch Row, Smethwick.
Edited by Robbo 27 on Monday 6th February 10:43
Edited by Robbo 27 on Monday 6th February 11:18
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