What Was Your Earliest Memory?

[Bobbisox1]

Being the youngest of five, my Dad was in the RAF and three siblings were a lot older, all born pre war then after the war , me and my brother, my earliest memory is of standing in my cot holding the bar and my two sisters coming in from work , they'd pooled their wages and bought me some little black patent shoes with an ankle strap, I wanted those shoes on with my small nightdress, I must have been about 18 months old

[tonyav]

Sitting on my trike at the bottom of our next door neighbours drive watching my dad help our next door neighbour fix his car. Can remember being fascinated at how high the front of the car was ( on ramps ).
The first news story that I can clearly remember was when JFK was assassinated.

[Buenchico]

My earliest memory is of my surprise when, after I'd complained that I couldn't see where we were going while I was sitting in my pushchair, my mother stopped walking, fiddled with a few wingnuts and rearranged the pushchair so that I was facing forwards instead of towards her. My mother was walking the two miles from our house into Ipswich town centre and we'd got about halfway, to the junction of Norwich Road and Valley Road

[agchristie]

I genuinely cannot remember anything before the age of 5.

I remember my mother collecting me early from primary school as I was crying!

[237SJ]

I`ve got a scarily good memory. I remember being in my Grandmother's arms when I was ill and her calling me a "poor little bubba" I also remember sitting on a potty in front of the Rayburn and being in a cot where my sister suggested that she should lower the rails and let me out which she did and I ventured downstairs where my Mum found me and took me back to the cot.

[jno]

some people remember being born, but you have to catch them young before other memories crowd it out

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[LadyCG]

My first memory was crossing the threshold of our new home in Hereford in October 1980. I was 3 years and 9 months old. I don't remember anything before that, not even the journey there.

[rockyracoon]

Singing Grandad, to my grandad at a Boxing Day party. I was just over 3 years old. It's vivid for a few seconds then fades. I'm still fond of that song.

[Bobbisox1]

I remember vividly first day at primary school,clinging to my mother and crying, in fact all the kids were,it was mass hysteria, it was snowing heavily ,that's when there used to be a Winter intake in January,just after Xmas

[murraymints]

sitting under a table in the small flat mum and dad first bought..playing on the floor and the big boy that threw the chickens around..we left that home when I was 18 months old

[Bobbisox1]

//the big boy throwing chickens around //
Minty I'm intrigued , lol

[murraymints]

there was a coop at the bottom of the shared garden

[Bobbisox1]

Arh, that explains...I think , haha

[Prudie]

From 2 until 4 I lived in Singapore so I have quite a few memories from there but I've no idea which order they are in.

[teacake44]

Playing blind mans buff in living room with brothers and sisters, ( my turn) they all left the room so I couldn't find them. I ended up with my hands up the chimney, and knees in the coal fire place, had two cracking bubbles of burnt skin on my knees, and elbows, och! had it not been that the fire had just been topped up with coal slack it could have been worse, eldest bother forgot to put the fireguard back in place. Didn't want to play that game again :) can't remember how old I was, but very young, a short enough to fit nice and snug in a fireplace

[hc4361]

Riding a huge, beautiful dapple grey rocking horse in hospital when I was recovering from meningitis.

[tamborine]

living in nissen huts like these in Maghull, while in transit for soldier dad's posting to Singapore; 6wks sail by military liner. We were shunned by snobby civvy kids coz we lived on the camp.

[jourdain2]

I have a visual memory. My very earliest is looking out of my pram through the hood (it was navy), there was a shape there (possibly Dad or Mum pushing it), but I was reaching for and trying to hit a silver disc dangling on a ribbon - it had a smiley face 'the man in the moon'? on it. I was born August 1949, so it was pretty early, I would have been under 1. I can also remember being carried on Mum's shoulder to the toilet at night (so I'd have been 18mth/2yrs) - I remember that because I reached out my fingers to the edge of the door just as Mum closed it - painful and I screamed - unsurprisingly.