Earliest Memory

I can remember getting an injection in my bum in Cleveland Ohio which would of made me about 12 to 18 months old. I also have a few memories of travelling over here on the Queen Mary. I'd of been two.............mind you now couldn't tell you what I did yesterday

That is a rare occurrence. Most people`s earliest memory is when they are about 5-y-o

I'd say I have quite a few memories up to the age of five, I'll be sixty this year.

Being at nursery about 4yo

My earliest memory is aged 3 at Oakfield kindergarten. I was repeatedly rocking back on my chair and told the teacher I was bored and wanted to go home. She made me stand in the wastepaper basket for the rest of the lesson. I don't think that would be allowed these days somehow!

Weirdest thing though I can remember collecting the Esso coins with the England squad on them in 66 but I have no recollection of us winning the world cup mind you my old man and certainly my mum were not into sports

Goodness me ufcdan, I thought you were a bit younger than that for some reason.

First football match I can remember was while on holiday near Plymouth, George Best scoring against Benfica

Goodness me ufcdan, I thought you were a bit younger than that for some reason.

Nah slippy a lot less ahead of me than behind me

I've got a bunch of early memories, but hard to know which is the very 1st memory. I vaguely remember the 66 world cup aged 4, I watched about 3 seconds of it and remember my dad telling me it was the world cup.

My first football match was Palace at home to Preston North End, 1974.

My first football match was Palace at home to Preston North End, 1974.

Well a clash of the titans such as that will obviously be etched into the brain

That did it for me ufcdan, Palace fan ever since for my sins!

I remember being dragged around a supermarket by my mother and I was crying cos I hated it. She looked along way up back then. She said stop crying or I'll give you something to cry for. I guess I was about 3 or 4?

Fast forward 50 odd years and the missus does exactly the same

Come to think of it my second memory is clearer - coming home from nursery to find someone had stolen my toddler police car from our back yard - who does that? I would hazard a guess that negative memories are remembered more overall.

i have memories of things i did at age 2, more aged 3, and quite a lot aged 4

Tbf donny you are only six

would love to be ....

Yeah agree with that actually I wish someone had punched me in the face when I was twenty and said "Wake up this is the best time of your life"

You think so ufc? I much prefer being 43 to when I was 20

In hospital age 2 having my tonsils out looking up at my mum and her sister

next memory age 5 being pulled out from under a collapsed wall by some firemen

No Hank 20 for me, no responsibility. Most weeks skint by Sunday night but didn't matter had a roof over my head. My mum and dad fed me. Loved the music scene was into jazzfunk. And some of the best days were following Chelsea having tear ups etc.......happy days

Oh and Trudy Montgomery

I dont have any memories of anything under the age 5, i have pictures and stories from under that age where i can sort of recall it but not certain.

Definitely from aged 3 possibly 2 I remember my parents telling me how great I was for tying my shoelaces at 2yo and can remember getting the well dones etc. but couldn't confirm I was 2 from the memory if that makes sense.
Can remember bombing about in a yellow car that I painted Black at 3yo have the pictures to prove it covered in paint with the girl  who lived 2 doors away.
Can remember knocking my teeth out at 3yo also

For many years I was convinced my earliest memory was a trip on the train to Catterick races and that it was July 1957 when I'd have been 22 months. I remember it clearly, so much so that I know the winner of the last race on the card as my Dad was screaming it home. Recently I looked up an old form book only to find that it was actualy July 1958. So  I've had to revise my earliest memory as I have a clear memory of my mum bringing home my new baby brother - which would have been April 1958.

58 instead of 57. Hang your head in shame steerfourth we've got no time for porky tellers on here

Apparently the part of the brain that stores long  term memory doesn't start working at all until two plus at the earliest. Which is a shame really. We've had some lovely days out with my Granddaughter who is two in July, and I keep thinking 'she'll never remember any of this' despite to all appearances, having a great time.

Get her a tattoo

hopefully she will remember mate and if not it will form the bond you'll have with her

Fetching my nappy and then having it put on.  Aged 2, before bedtime.

I'm guessing the old white towel type with the huge pin happy days

Disposable.  We had a downstairs bathroom and the shower cubicle was used to store the packs of nappies.  I remember being told to fetch one, which I did, and then laying down in the backroom, ready to be changed.

just waiting to have mine changed now

I remember my parents taking me to see an aunt and uncle in Bristol. I can remember vividly sitting in a field with new cut grass, which felt very sharp to me at the time. I remember my uncle walking towards us, he'd been cutting the grass and he was hot and red. Some years later when I was telling my mother this, she told me I was 18 months old at the time.

I can remember holding my belly in when mum inserted the pin into a terry's nappy... age unknown.

I also recall the nursery (4ish) and my grandfather dying on the evening of my 4th birthday

I can remember incidents from the age of three but my memory has distorted things a little .

I remember going to a nursery and being amazed by all the toys.  Only pre school memory I have that I can be sure of tbh.  I remember my grandad, him drawing me a picture of a car, me being very impressed, and seeing as he died just before my fifth birthday that could pre date the nursery one.

I recall he had a very smart E reg car, at least compared to my parents' Skoda, so it was probably a picture of that.

I remember my first day in school, aged just over 4.
And the previous year I had a grand on Never Say Die in the Derby at 33/1.