What Was Your First Childhood Memory?

[Bobbisox1]

I think I must have been around 15-18 months old , I've got two older sisters ( one deceased now and the other one is 89 in June) fit a flea she is,
They were 15-17 years older than I am ,
I remember my cot had been fetch through to the kitchen ( now we call it a living room) I was obviously not well , they came from work and had pooled their money to buy me a little pair of black patent shoes

[novalis]

About 18 months - I tucked at my mother's apron as she was taking a pan of boiling milk off the hob. Some of it splashed onto my arm and the mark is still there over 70 years later.

[dannyk13]

Riding a donkey on Blackpool beach.

[woofgang]

I don't know how old I was but I wasn't walking. I was sitting on grass and someone was rolling a ball to me and I was rolling it back.

[bookbinder]

Leaning to one side in my pram, and tipping the whole lot over.

[tiggerblue10]

Carrying a bag of monkey nuts to a neighbour's house. This was in Cyprus during the civil war in 74.

[EdmundD]

Being on a train through Holland with my mother going to join my father whose regiment had been posted to Hamburg.

[Peter Pedant]

the above are pre-adult memories
the memories we have as adults - usually begins 2 1/2 to 3

and I remember a dated picture being painted - watercolour - May 1955, and petrol rationing in 1956. My father needed something else other than money to get petrol

[Bobbisox1]

I was younger than 2 and 1/2 Peter ( I was in a cot)

[Atheist]

My first memory, or perhaps memory of a memory, is of an old woman’s face leering at me across a vast expanse of patchwork bedspread in the way people goo-goo at new babies. I think I was a baby, so this must have been in early 1947, as my birthday was in December of 1946. I presume the face belonged to my grandmother, my mother’s mother and I have one other, later, memory of her. Near the top of the stairs was a small landing above which the stairs divided left and right. To the left was a small bedroom and to the right the rest of the upstairs rooms. I seem to recall looking up the staircase and seeing my grandmother being caught on that landing by someone who then coaxed her up to the left, holding her arm to prevent her from falling. I think that she was senile.

[jno]

some people can remember being born (not me)

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2899,00.html

[iluvmargie]

My friend's husband swears he remembers being born!

[Theland]

In a high pram. Just a fleeting memory.
Next was sitting in a red pedal car. I swear it was all metal.

[Bobbisox1]

Athiest I'm a month older than you lol

I don't think I'd like that memory jno, even today I'm blessed with a very good memory

[Theland]

Sadly, so is my wife :-(

[davebro]

2 people feeding me medicine & a clockwork car with a silly policeman on the bedroom lino at Xmas.

[Atheist]

Bobbi...can I be your toyboy?

[Bobbisox1]

Course you can Atheist :0)

[iluvmargie]

Being a bridesmaid aged about five and loving my pretty dress.

[teacake44]

I can only remember what I can only describe as a big airbag in my face 4/5 times a day.

[DTCwordfan]

playing hopscotch on a tartan carpet in a Callander hotel, aged 3, and riding on the Loch Katrine steamer. My sister was 4 months old

the steamer is still going but then so am I.

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