How Far Back Can Your Memory Take You

[Bobbisox1]

I think I must of been about 14 months old and my older sisters bought me a tiny pair of black patent shoes,I was standing up holding the rails of my cot , even now I’ve got a brilliant memory and I’m grateful for that

[Mamyalynne]

Just under three when they brought my baby brother home.

[ladybirder]

My Daddy running with me on his shoulders over to the air-raid shelter in a nearby school grounds with the sky bright with fires and bombs dropping.

[Bobbisox1]

/// hollytree
Mark as Best Answer
“I’ve got a brilliant memory”

Hardly, when you have posted the same question at least three times before ///

Perhaps if you tried putting a question on AB rather than sit poking insults you might get to enjoy it , you never know!

[gulliver1]

Oh dear.

[choux]

Morning :) What a lovely answer from ladybirder.

[Bobbisox1]

Gulliver that kind of answer means Jack chit to me :0) just means they haven’t the wherewithal to put a post up themselves, sad really

I agree Choux and LB deserves a BA for it :0)

[tiggerblue10]

I remember being in my walker and falling down the concrete stairs on the veranda. This was in Cyprus but I don't know how old I was. Could've been under 12 months. I also remember walking across to my neighbours with a bag on monkey nuts in my hand when the war broke out in 74 (Cyprus).

[Bobbisox1]

Tiggs I imagine that was very scary growing up in Northern Cyprus ?

[emmie]

being a baby in a pram, possibly a year or so old, sitting outside the cafe in a pram, my mum worked there, and we lived in the flats above the cafe.

[Bobbisox1]

You wouldn’t dare do that now Emmie ,but I remember sitting outside in my pram outside our front door and it was an upstairs flat

[tiggerblue10]

It was for my mum, Bobbi, as I wasn't really conscious of what was going on being a toddler. My dad was in the army fighting.

[emmie]

no indeed, though mum was working in the cafe, and i suppose thought she could keep an eye on me from time to time.

[Bobbisox1]

Gosh how awful , I think it’s a lot better between sides now, I recall when we went across from Nicosia we had to show our passports and the car we were in was searched, we took a wrong turning in Gurn and found ourselves surrounded by young men and women from the Turkish army ,I think it could of been the car had a S Cypriot plate as our friends were resident there at the time and most other cars had tourist plates

[zebo]

//refers to Zebo - spread by word of mouth in the village and also I think by - - town crier//
At the time we were nowhere near Sandringham though and she was adament that Dad had heard it on the early morning news on the wireless. She wasn't a woman to be gainsaid!

[ladybirder]

Thanks for BA Bobs. It was a good job he did as my actual little bedroom at the back of our house was hit and our lilac tree in the back garden ended up on a roof some streets away.

[THECORBYLOON]

I can mind on telling anyone who'd listen, I'd not be going to school because I'd be at home making tea.

[rowanwitch]

Hospital aged about 5, anything before that disappeared. I wish I could remember my father I was 2½ when he died. Some people can go back that far. A psychologist suggested I had edited out my early memories as there were too many sad aspects

[tiggerblue10]

Yes, the situation in Cyprus has definitely changed for the better and crossing borders is easier although I haven't been back in nearly 20 years now. Would love to go back but I've developed a fear of flying! :o(

[lankeela]

Aged about three staying at grandma's in Wakefield - dad drove a furniture lorry with an open back and someone knocked on the door to say it was on fire. Dad was an ex fireman and when the firefighters were stood back wondering what to do he grabbed a hose and climbed in to move furniture to get to the seat of the fire. I remember him hoisting me up on his shoulders as I was crying, and his hair and shirt were soaking wet.