First Memory

[sunflower68]

What is yours? How old and can you remember the year?

I must have been about 2 or 3, early 1970s being carried by my mum whilst watching ham being sliced in the grocers. I kind of wish it had been a bit more exiting but so glad it was with my mum.

[grannyg]

Good Friday 1945 when I was 2.
My Dad was mending a bicycle puncture and had the bike upside down on the ground, my brother turned the pedals and I stuck my finger in the spokes and broke my finger. I got my first ride in a car by a neighbour taking me to hospital to have the top of my finger stitched up by a Doctor Bell-Jones at Ipswich hospital.

[dove]

what a great question!
my first memory was of a puppy dog that I had been trying to talk to, it got its head stuck under the fence and I screamed until my dad came to rescue it. My dad was a hero anyway, cos he was a fireman..... I think I was about two and a half.

[vivaciauk]

My first memory ..i was 18months old and watched my mum having my baby brother..he was a funny colour when he came out and i remember my dad saying its a boy..Home births were more common then.

[hopalong]

I not sure how old I was but I remember sitting on my mums knee getting a injection.

[Scarlett]

These are all quite traumatic memories!!! I remember a lot about my first day at nursery school- I was 3. I refused to take my coat off for weeks and I was too scared to go to the end of the long room where the slides etc were, because Gavin Bland was there, and he was quite a rough boy..... or so I thought.

[jay90]

one of them is being in a greengrocers and picking up what i thought was a potato, it turned out to be mud or something and the man behind the counter gave my mum paper bags to wipe it off......i was 26 only jokin...or being sick on my beige duffel coat....both whwn i was about 2-3..

[QueenOfSheba]

I remember my nappy being changed, so I was anything up to about 2 years old! They were Paddy-Pads with a free Mr Man sticker in every pack - Does anyone remember those?!

[sammd]

I can't remember anything from when i was really young :( And the memories i do have i'm just wondering whether it's because i've seen photos of them or whether i'm actually remembering them...

[spudqueen]

Being high up in a Church watching people walk down the aisle - apparently it was my cousins wedding and I was sat on someones shoulders. I was 16 months old.

[spaced]

was around 2 (1978) and remember the old buses when they used to have the ticket inspector who had a ticket machine around his neck and would turn a handle on this machine and then give you a ticket for the journey.

[gessoo]

Going into hospital at 2 to have my tonsils out. I remember being miserable (parents weren't allowed to visit because it was thought it would upset their kids. (This was back in 1949). I also remember the kid in the next cot screaming and a little toy my parents bought me when they came to collect me. Also remember being chastised by a nurse because I wet myself! I also have flash backs to the smell of the ether they used as an anesthetic.

[Kay]

I was with my mum sat in a pushchair by the side of a dock,a man came and gave me a huge kiss and I cried. It was my dad home from sea he was a merchant seaman:-)

[whiskeysheri]

What a great question!

I think I was 2 or 3 and we'd just driven back from my nan's- it was dark. I was asleep in the car, but woke when we pulled up to the house. I remember pretending to still be asleep, because my dad would carry me up to the bathroom, sit on the side of the bath with me on his lap and brush my teeth before putting me into bed. I think he always knew I wasn't asleep. x

[hopalong]

I was 4 and was at a friends (Girl) 4th birthday party. She had a dolls house. I said I had one like that. She said it was mine but my mum gave it to her. Maybe because boys just didn't play with dolls houses.

[gessoo]

Oh Hopalong - that made me so sad. For you to remember it so clearly must mean that you felt upset. Parents do some funny things sometimes. My mum used to clear my toys out sometimes without telling me. There were some things that I really, really missed :o( . Perhaps that is why we have so many of my son's things still here in the loft - I just can't throw his things away!!!!