What is your earliest memory?

[Treetotal]

Thanks for sharing your memories....I have really enjoyed reading them....its interesting to see that the age of three or four is proving to be significant for many here.
I am known for having a good memory and family often ask me about events that they are unsure about. My sister didn't believe that she used to bite her nails for a time when she was younger..and wondered how I could remember something she did years ago....when she had no memory of it.....my Mum confirmed this, much to my sister's disgust as it is a habit can't bear.
Carol

[Ayashi]

Sometimes it makes you wonder why pre-school teachers do the job they do if they clearly dislike children! That story reminded me of my own, again aged 4, of being in the "4+ unit" as they called it and one of the teachers got married. Naturally I kept calling her by the name I knew her as, her maiden name, and one time I addressed her when I was standing next to my mother and this woman came over, towered over me and got aggressive that I was calling her the wrong name. Mum was not happy.

[Seoras]

I remember we had  a clothes drying contraption in the kitchen  which you raised and lowered with cord or  thin rope on pullies.

ScouseBoy, I have a rellie who still uses one. It's in her kitchen above the fire and I would think has been there since the house was built in the 1930's.

[Treetotal]

Hi George...My Daughter lives in a large Victorian property and has one in her utility room:

http://www.bagsandracks.co.uk/cast-iron-clothes-airers/traditional-classic-pulley-maid-airer.html?gclid=CKam1cO-o8gCFaZ02wodoP0Buw

Carol

[MJW]

I'm not sure how old I was but I remember being in a pram or pushchair at what my mother called the "clinic".  Seeing bottles of orange juice on shelves and being given cod liver oil on a spoon.

Malcolm

[Treetotal]

Yeah...me too Malcolm...thanks for sharing 
Carol

[zannette]

SCOUSEBOY - we had one of those things too, we called it the airer. As it hung above an open fireplace, it was just the job for drying damp stuff.

I think my first memory was of being wrapped up in an armchair under the above airer. Was not yet at toddler stage. I could see my mother in the kitchen part of the room, making the dinner and I was listening to MRS DALES DIARY. I don't remember the plot, but the harp music was what I liked.

also remember being taken out to the local shops in a big carriage pram. We were not really 'posh', but I was an unexpected baby and my mother got lots of 2nd hand stuff, including this pram, from the family of a very well-off baby who had grown out of them.

I also remember being bathed in a small tin bath in front of the fire - airer still above. Houses had freezing bathrooms in those days, so I was bathed where it was warm, thank goodness.

[dawnsh]

It is said that our earliest memories usually co-incide with learning to talk, some children learn to talk earlier so some children will have 'earlier' memories.

I sometimes think some of the 'memories' I have are from experiences that my parents repeated over and over, so not true memories.

[spark]

lots of things from a 70's childhood, e.g. rolling brown outs but unsure of dates.

However, strongest is aged just under 7, saying goodbye to my baby sister laid out in a little white coffin in the undertakers chapel of rest.

Spark