What's your earliest childhood memory?

[Parafox]

I remember I would have been about 2, living with a foster carer near Market Harborough and having to go to hospital for a "delicate" operation because my dad, who was unable to look after me at the time, due to marriage breakdown, insisted that I had to be circumcised because that's what happened to boys in his home country of Romania. I can remember the sound and smell of the clinic and being taken home by ambulance.

 

I also remember when I was about 3 being given a trike which had a metal compartment between the rear wheels where I would keep a spanner and a hammer "in case". It was blue with darker blue mudguards. I kept it until I got my first bike a few years later. I can remember my dad pushing me round the block on it. I can remember feeling really happy.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

I think I was 2 or 3, woke up on Christmas morning and was so excited I climbed out of my cot and went straight downstairs, I'd pissed myself in my sleep but that wasn't important.

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

I remember coming out of a tunnel with an Indian man smiling at me, I think it was in Grimsby because I could hear a screaming women and the smell of fish was heavy in the air,

[Carl the Llama]

My earliest memory freaks me out all the time.   I remember a multicoloured 'vortex' and then waking up in my childhood bedroom.  I went downstairs for breakfast and everything felt familiar but new at the same time, like a big old case of deja vu.  Still undecided if it was simply me waking up from a dream, the moment I developed true conciousness, or if it was something a whole lot weirder.

[Steven]

My earliest childhood memory is so long ago now it is in black and white. 

[ScouseFox]

i remember being told off for pushing my sister down the stairs

[Guest Mee-9]

I was heading to Loughborough Country Fair with my parents. 

 

I should probably call childline. 

[glenny_fox]

I remember going on a trip to London with my parents when I was 3. I fell asleep as soon as we left the house and woke up about 2 miles from London. for years I thought London was only down the road from Leicester. 

[yorkie1999]

Watching 1969 moon landings on television at my uncles house in Kinloss. I was born in 65 which meant i was 4, and can even remember the tv, which had a wooden outside with a blue leatherette panel next to the screen, 4 buttons at the bottom and a knob for the channels.

[Guest]

I'd like to say tit sucking but sadly it was throwing my dummy out of the Anglia perhaps 6 - 8 months

[Alf Bentley]

Watching 1969 moon landings on television at my uncles house in Kinloss. I was born in 65 which meant i was 4, and can even remember the tv, which had a wooden outside with a blue leatherette panel next to the screen, 4 buttons at the bottom and a knob for the channels.

 

 

You shouldn't really be so rude about your uncle. It was kind of him to change the channels for you.

[I am Rod Hull]

Getting bathed in the kitchen sink 

[Unabomber]

Can't remember

[RonnieTodger]

losing my virginity

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

losing my virginity

Birth doesn't count

[RonnieTodger]

Birth doesn't count

 

Yeah that's a lot funnier than a molestation joke actually. 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

Yeah that's a lot funnier than a molestation joke actually.

let's hear it!

[DennisNedry]

My earliest memory is from when I was 4 years old, when I rested my head on my mums tummy to hear my unborn sister kicking

 

I'm surprised people can remember being 2 or younger!

[Carl the Llama]

let's hear it!

Oh Julian.  Consider yourself whooshed.

 

losing my virginity

[Izzy]

Must have been 4 or 5 and just started school. We were climbing the ropes in PE and I got to the top and let go. Fell to the ground and cracked my head open on the floor - claret everywhere. As I was lying down in agony, one of the other kids started screaming "Miss, Miss, we can see his brain!!" 

I thought my brain was hanging out the back of my skull. Sh1t myself.   

[Wymsey]

Got done for wolf-whistling at a teacher at around 7.

 

Had to do detention because of it.

[Webbo]

I remember holding my mam's hand crossing the road to take my sister to be weighed at Belgrave Hall (now Belgrave neighbourhood centre). At the eldest I would be about 2 so I'm not sure how genuine it is.

[BoyJones]

Seeing my two year old sister lying motionless under a couple of feet of water at the serpentine in 1955. I don't remember her being rescued, but I do remember my mother stripping me down to my vest and pants so my sister could have my dry clothes. I was three at the time.

I can still her face looking up, eyes open, no panic, just fading away.

[gazagac]

Earliest memory is walking down to the local newsagent with my mum to get the old Sports Mercury at about 6pm on a Saturday night - must have been about 6 years old in 1977.

 

Seemed amazing that you got photos from the match that had only finished about an hour before.

 

Probably more amazing is the fact that I thought Larry May was the greatest goalscorer in the world!

 

I have this memory of 1-0 wins with a May goal. Looking back, 77/78 gave us a record low 21(?) points, with Roger Davies and Billy Hughes top scoring on 4(?). That same season my dad apologised to me for us being so cr@p, and said how much he hoped it wouldn't stop me loving Leicester.

 

It hasn't. Thanks dad.

[Stadt]

Can't remember