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If you were able to “Travel in Time” (seems it’s only possible for Tardis owners!) - what “time”/ “era” would you like to visit - and why?
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Joe
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Good question. I remember it being asked a few years back.
If I could time travel I'd want to use it more than once! But I'd also want a Babel fish in my ear so I could understand what was being said!
I'd want to see how stonehenge was built, & if there ever really was a place called Atlantis. I'd want to watch how the pyramids were built & visit Jesus while he was preaching.
I'd want to see the house I grew up in & my own house when they were newly built & at about 10 yearly intervals up to the present day (both are Victorian). I'd like to be able to spend a few days looking round Lowestoft at various times in it's history, lets say for starters the 1970s, 1950s, 1920s, 1900s, 1880s, 1850s, before Peto, before the harbour was built, 1800 & lots of other years right back til it started as a settlement in Viking times.
I'd want to visit my family ancestors in each generation & get to know them & see how they lived & what they did & what sort of people they were.
Then I'd jump forward it time to see when I died, & to see if, in about 100 years, Lowestoft was under the sea.
I'd also probably want to check out a lot of the claims on this sit to see how accurate it was.
http://www.futuretimeline.net/
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Thanks Joe for your interesting reply - I didn’t realise that this subject had been posted before - but - hey, I’m into recycling ideas when I can!
Certainly there are some things you’ve listed that I would find interesting . . . especially about Lowestoft.
I haven’t really thought it through as to what I would choose - it’s probably just as well we haven’t got a Time Machine - as I’d probably be unable to make a choice.
OK - let’s narrow it down - we only get one “Travel slot” (it’s too costly to run!) - and we’re only there as a “visitor” (we can see them - but they can’t see us) - so we’re just an observer in that particular time . . . so being a bit of “a Devil’s Advocate” here. With that restriction - then what/when would you choose?
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Eileen
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I'd like to see my grandparents (died before I was born), especially like to see my maternal grandfather working as a miller at Buttrum's Mill in Woodbridge.
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Meg
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Like Eileen I would like to meet my grandparents as they all died before I was born.
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funkychick
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There are just too many periods and places to choose just one, so I will keep it very simple I would like to go back to my own childhood with my Mum and Dad young and strong and my lovely grandparents with me again, when the sun always seemed to shine and life was so uncomplicated
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tedH
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i would go back to when my mum was still alive and still in good health
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frankiesays
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Yes, all very sentimental and all that but how about going back in time and putting a large bet on the National? Well somebody had to lower the tone.
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Yes, all very sentimental and all that but how about going back in time and putting a large bet on the National? Well somebody had to lower the tone.
It's good to know you're there, Frankie, to "lower the tone" - that's usually my role!
Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to do that as - quote from me: "we’re only there as a “visitor” (we can see them - but they can’t see us) - so we’re just an observer in that particular time . . . " - so, sadly, you won't be able to "clean up" at the races! 
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This has given me more cause for thought than I would have imagined! And I’ve found the replies to be of interest - especially to the family connections. And that’s where my thoughts go - to be able to see my Dad’s mother. She died when he was eight-years-old - soon after the birth of her fifth child. I do have a very nice Studio photograph of her (it’s a Sepia print) - so I have “seen her” - so to speak, but that’s the time travel I would make.
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