The TV at my grandmother's house. It was grey with wooden panels - or was that the cabinet it was in? - and next to it was a telephone on a table, one of those where you had to pull ...Read More
Ian James Gilligan was my best friend. He said his 3 names as one. We lived on a with a cul de sac He lived next door. Mum and Dad had a Bedford Drmobile in thos das... (script) Read More
I am a toddler. Maybe two years old. On holiday by the River Thames at Henley. Two hundred miles from my home town of Widnes in Lancashire. Widnes was a heavy chemical industry town and Henley would ... (script) Read More
One of my earliest memory: I was probably about 3 or 4, I can remember living in a high-rise block of flat with my mum in a place called Penarth and on this particular day I was really hungry and... ...Read More
I am not 100% certain whether this visual memory is me remembering a real life thing, or me remembering a dreamt thing but these 2 staggered images are the 2 things that automatically pop into my head. The first is... ...Read More
My fist visual memory is probably not my first memory but its is the first I can remember because I have a vey poor memory of my youth; but this image has always been in my head and it can’t... ...Read More
It was my first day of school and I did a painting along with the other children whose first day it was and had already started. I did a painting and the teacher put it up on the wall and ...Read More
I was sitting at the table in my family home, I suppose I was sitting at the end of the table and my sister was in a high chair at the opposite end of the table and there was lots... ...Read More
I was about 3 years old, which is roughly 1992, I was in my parents living room in my little quick fix boiler suit, I loved it, I wore it pretty much all the time, I never took it off... ...Read More
So I am about 3 and a half maybe, nearing 4 probably and I am in my grand Pa house and he is sitting on his rocking chair and the carpet is very blue and patterned, and he has very... ...Read More
The first memory that comes to mind is one, I think, when I was 11 years old, I’d gone to boarding school because my father was in the RAF and when I was about 11, I went on to a... ...Read More
I am about six years old, in fact I am six years old as it’s October half term 1985 and I am at home, Gorleston-on-Sea, and my mum has just left for university in a big red ford estate… ...Read More
Das wohnzimmer ist woller scherben scherben uberall, uber den ganzen boden verteiet. Es sind viele menschen in wohnzimmer, all redden aufgeregt. Aly dem sofa sitzt mein kleiner bruder er hat lange wimper. Und ancle auf den wimpern ... Read More
Walking up before my grandma early in the morning downstairs with my sister we pushed the footstool from the living room all the way to the front door. Wedged against the door my sister stand on it and helps ...(Script) Read More
My first ever memory is from 1982 when I was one year old and me and my big sister, there’s only 362 days between us, so she was also very young, probably about 2. It was a very sunny day ...Read More
I think my first memory is from the beach and I don’t know if it’s because I am looking at the beach footage but I think it is on the beach and I remember sweating a lot, we weren’t in ...Read More
I am sitting on a stainless steel high chair with a red top, I am in the eating room of our house, I think I am about 2, 2 and a half years old so it’s about 1958 and it’s ...Read More
My earliest memory is being in a quarry near my parents’ house, I was about 5 at the time, they were draining the quarry to build a road through it and there was an enormous amount of fish being drawn ...Read More
My earliest memory is of a family holiday in Cornwall when I was perhaps only 4 or 5. I had made friend with a girl with the most enormous inflatable ring in the sea and she had let me borrow ...Read More
I am in a pushchair with a rain cover over it, we are in the front yard of my grandparents old house where my dad and his brothers grew up. The patio is grey, the gate is bright green and ...Read More
My first memory is quite vivid and it’s of me and my dad, and we were at a swimming pool, and my dad was teaching me how to swim and I can’t remember exactly how old I was but probably ...Read More
I think my earliest memory was when we were in Chicago when I was five, we’d been on a long day out in the city to visit the John Hancock Center which is the tallest building in Chicago, we got ...Read More
My brother who wasnt even a year younger inside my cot, crying next to me, im looking at the window a seagull comes close swooping past I can see the sea beyond. My mother enters gives me a toothbrush. At ...Read More
I follow the route of a familiar day-time walk, a muddy, flint-studded path that leads away from the house into a wood. I follow it through the well thinned hazels and out onto the edge of the farmland beyond. I ...Read More