whats your first memory

cavewoman you are just a nipper, when Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision song contest I was in hospital having just had my first baby

My first memory must have been when I was very young. I was trying to run away from a cat that was playing with my heels. I ran indoors crying, pushed the door shut and tried to reach the chain on the door and couldn't. I remember my mother running down the stairs presumably to see what all the noise was about.

I can actually remember being in my pram sitting on my aunties balcony remember the hood was up at the time - I was around 9 months old (yes we still sat in prams at that age!!) I can still remember it so vividally

I can distinctly remember being in a cot in my parents' bedroom, so probably about 18 months old. I woke up one night and called for mum, but no answer - they had gone to the pictures on a rare night out, and my aunt (who lived upstairs with my uncle) came and took me upstairs where they laid me on their bed until my parents came home.
I'm also quite convinced I can remember being a babe-in-arms carried by my father on an old-fashioned London tram after a visit to my grandparents who lived in Norbury near Croydon.

My first proper memory is of standing on tiptoe to reach into the pram. I tickled my baby sister who was chuckling. It was summer 1955 and I was three years old.

Moving from my grandmas house and my parents headboard was leaning against the fence. I would have been 2.

We had a flood in the cellar when I was about two - I remember standing on the steps looking at it - and mum was cooking peas.

I remember being in my cot. It was in the living room for some reason, perhaps I was ill or it was very cold in the house. My mother had hung newspaper along the cot so I couldn't see out into the room and I remember hearing them talking and being annoyed that I couldn't see!

Paddyann - I don't remember my siren suit but was told I had one. They were supposed to have been a garment invented by Winston Churchill so he could be comfortable but ready for action at night during the war. They were worn at night so that people would be warm if they had to go outside to their air raid shelter.
I do remember have a warm matching set, coat, bonnet and leggings. The leggings weren't trousers or tights but as I recall were 2 separate legcovers which buttoned up. I don't think little girls wore trousers then and small boys wore shorts and knee socks for another 20 years!

I remember being in a hotel bedroom in Shropshire and giving my precious china babydoll a bath in the washbasin. Her legs and arms came off and I was very disappointed. I still wonder what happened!
The first book I remember was called Mary Mouse, a cartoon story which was small but wide, like a cheque book.

Lots of hazy memories,first day at school etc.
My clearest recollection is of sneaking downstairs just in time to see Sandie Shaw winning the Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet on a String. (Actually, now I've just remembered seeing Cliff singing Congratulations)

This is an interesting thread because sometimes I rack my brain to think of very early memories, trying to put them into the context of a timeline and wonder why some, quite uneventful memories resonate and most are forgotten. I can remember being in one of those old fashioned prams with a false bottom where we kept our toys, playing in the back garden with a big, cumbersome trike. I remember going on a family holiday to the Isle of Wight when I was three and our parents took us up on the ferry deck to show us the land we were leaving and the island we were approaching. Watching Bill and Ben on "Watch with Mother" aptly named because our mother sat and watched it with us. That would have been soon after we got our first TV. I also remember watching Mr Pastry, Billy Bunter and Circus Boy. I definitely remember hearing the name of President Eisenhower on the news, being terrified of Teddy Boys for some reason or other, starting school at 4 and three quarters, doing a lot of painting and musical movements peformed in our underwear when we would have a ten minute interlude for a lie on the floor with our eyes closed. I remember soon after I started school we had to go up to our teacher's desk, one by one, to see if we knew any words in the first class reading book and crying because I only knew one, but in a matter of weeks I was reading properly. I also remember writing the date 1960 in an excerise book soon after I'd started in the infants.

MissA yep!

I wasn't sure what a siren suit was, so I just Googled it. I thought the siren bit was talking about 'alluring' women, not air raid sirens!

I remember running down steps with my parents with mum scolding dad for being late as usual. We were rushing to see a parade going through Norwich on the day of the Queens Coronation. I was passed forward and stood in front of a policeman so I could see. I thought the lady in the carriage really was the Queen. I’d have been five.

After reading these posts I will have to believe my daughter when she says she can remember being in her cot and playing with the plastic balls embedded in the bars ? I can't remember anything earlier than my sister being born when I was about 6 years old because I got told off by the midwife for filling the castor oil bottle up with water - she had told me to 'run it under the tap'. I remember many things from that year of being 6 but nothing earlier, I certainly don't remember my brother being born when I was two and a half.

I started school after christmas on a very snowy day and I wore a red siren suit made for a 2 year old ..I was 3 months away from my 5th birthday .The teacher thought my sister who was 2 years younger was the one starting school as she was taller than I was .Haven't heard anyone mention "siren suits" for years

I remember Twinkle too. And having a fever and being delirious and seeing Bruce Forsyth (he did the Saturday/Sunday Night at the Palladium then) tap dancing around my bedroom. I never liked Brucie after that...

And from Mandy to Jackie?

Me too. We were very lucky because our next door neighbour worked for DC Thompson and got comics at a discount. All three of us got a comic a week. I graduated from Twinkle to Mandy!

Oh I used to love 'Twinkle'!

Some very funny and very sad memories so far.

I do remember I got the Twinkle comic and getting the free bracelet stuck between my bottom front teeth. I had this big beaded hoop sticking out of my mouth. My Mum took me to the chemist and he got it out!

I remember going up the garden path to get a bee/ wasp sting sorted out. I was probably about two. Then being in bed, in the darkened back room, with my brother, because we both had measles. He had somehow grabbed Mum's bag from the top of the piano, and plastered his face with lipstick. She had a fit, thinking he had scarlet fever.

Maybe so, ginny I can remember getting my head stuck in a gap in the fence too. Didn't half hurt my ears when my dad pulled me out!

I can remember going with my Grandpa (who looked after me when mum was at work ) upstairs on the bus to the front of the bus to drive it and singing "why does everybody call me bighead" I can remember wearing a pink pixie hood which my nana knitted for me.
I can also remember being pushed in a pram to the Cole Merchants in very deep snow (1954/54) then having to walk back when the pram was filled with sacks of coal.

Misadventure was a great name for you from a very early age then?