At what age do our infant memory commence?

[Erato]

My father spent his early years in Angola and was a fluent speaker of Umbundu.  When he was about twelve, he was sent to the United States to attend school and, since he had no one to converse with in Umbundu, he gradually lost his ability to speak the language.  However, even fifty or sixty years later, out of the blue, he would come out with words or phrases from his childhood.  I remember once we were strolling around Walden Pond and saw some water striders and out popped the Umbundu word for water strider.

[Milliepede]

I remember standing at the top of the garden in a brown velvet dress.  No more than 3 as have a photograph of myself in that dress.  Doesn't fit me now 

[BumbleB]

The photograph used as my avatar was taken before I reached school-age.  I am sure that it was taken whilst we were lodgers at a local farm. 

My National Registration Identity card was dated 16 June 1942 and there are some additional stickers giving registered addresses, the last one date 3 July 1945 when we took up residence in the bungalow where we lived for many years.  I wish I knew how to separate the stickers without damaging them, so that I can trace the timescale of my early years.

[Marianthompson47]

My very earliest memory is of walking the streets of Tamworth with my mother and youngest sister and my brother in his pram. I was five.

[BumbleB]

My very earliest memory is of walking the streets of Tamworth with my mother and youngest sister and my brother in his pram. I was five.

Not sure that you would recognise Tamworth today - it has changed so much, even since we moved here 20 years ago.

[Marianthompson47]

My very earliest memory is of walking the streets of Tamworth with my mother and youngest sister and my brother in his pram. I was five.

Not sure that you would recognise Tamworth today - it has changed so much, even since we moved here 20 years ago.

We didn't live in Tamworth for very long.  Our small house in Main Street (or road)  is no longer there.
Mum moved to the Continent where we stayed and I returned to Hertfordshire in the 1980ies.

[Roobarb]

A very interesting article on this subject from the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190516-why-you-cannot-trust-your-earliest-childhood-memories

It seems we must have many prodigies amongst us Rootschatters.   

[Kiltpin]

I think that we have two types of memory - snapshot and video. 

My memory of the window in my room is definitely snapshot - I have no idea what I did before or after, but that single image alone was imprinted on my memory. 

Whereas, when I was about 6, I heard and saw an argument between our neighbours. I remember clearly, he was telling his wife that she wasn't watering the lawn properly. She countered with, he was too stingy to buy a lawn sprinkler. He maintained that sprinklers didn't do the job properly. She asked why then did all the neighbours have one, and they were the only ones not to. Were they all stupid, and he was the only smart one in the estate? Shouldn't he be going round and telling all the others how to do it properly? He was wearing shorts and sandals. He had white hair and a white hairy chest, arms and back - I thought he looked like a polar bear. She was wearing one of those multicoloured print, shapeless, housedresses. 

I was wearing green shorts with 4 pockets and a green button-up shirt in a sort of green tartan print and black leather buckled sandals.   
 A little incident of no consequence, but I have remembered it in detail this last 66 years. 

Regards 

Chas

[Zaphod99]

I remember GETTING to the pub last night.

Zaph