tomlinson 879 Posted April 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 My very earliest memory is when I must have been 3or4 (only guessing),but I was sat in the back yard in our house at the bottom of carlton hill,eating coal (as you do) have no idea why it sticks in my memory,but it's quite vivid. Just think. Today all the kids have Coke. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,215 Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 I REMEMBER PUSHING a pram full of it from Basford Gas works,get arrested for it now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 The very earliest? The grass growing on these sand dunes at Abasoc,Wales. No idea why,and I was just two years old. I hate to correct people (that's not true), but possibly you mean Abersoch? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Never heard of the place since, I guess it's not exactly Wales answer to Benidorm...so I guess the spelling aint that important. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Sounds like the place to go: http://www.abersoch.co.uk/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted April 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Earliest holidays for me were at New Brighton. Anyone else holidayed there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Sounds like the place to go: Lovely blue sea...must've cost a fortune in dye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 My earliest memories include regular visits to the Children's hospital when it was on the road that ran parrallel to Mansfield Road near the Forest (Road name anyone?). The painted brick walls in two drab colours with a thin band of a different colour around waist height. I can still smell the disinfectant to thsi day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,091 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Compo, That would be the children's hospital on Berkeley Avenue (off Redcliffe Road). Went to a few wild parties in the nurses accommodation there in the 70s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Mate of mine was working on chimneys there...they had steel sheets on the roof in case of accidents...didn't want bricks falling through the roof...they were wired together on the apex of the roof.... Job finished an apprentice went up and removed the wires,but failed to tell my mate. 1...Have you ever seen a roofer surf off a roof on a steel sheet and land in thick thorn bushes on the ground? 2...Have you ever seen an apprentice doing 30mph closely followed by a roofer wielding a slate pick? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Earliest holidays? Aged 4 at YMCA at Skegness, Aged 5 in a fisherman's cottage at Mousehole in Cornwall. No running water but a very hot fortnight. Very memorable holiday. Aged 6 YMCA at Rhyl in North Wales. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Batesy 22 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Another very early memory of mine was again when we lived at the bottom of carlton hill,being washed in the ceramic sink by my mum,God bless her Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 My earliest memory would have been about 1963 in Thurman Street in Hyson Green. I can distinctly remember being in the neighbour's house and it had been modernised (the memory fails me as to how) but I think that it was totally different from our terraced house in its interior. The next solid memory I have is playing with a tiny puppy at our new home in Bobbers Mill Road. That dog had a long and happy life, and died in 1980. I miss her to this day. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveC 0 Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Of all the memories that you have about anything, which are the earliest? I remember being chased, in fun, by my mother on Tunstall Crescent, Aspley, and wondering how it was she could run faster than me without effort. I also remember being at the 'clinic', Aspley Lane, for Clinic Orange Juice. Lovely stuff it was too! You don't happen to remember the Lee family at 2 Tunstall Crescent - they were there in 1946 but not sure how long beyond that? Trying to trace what happened to them as they are part of our family - quite difficult from Australia! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 You don't happen to remember the Lee family at 2 Tunstall Crescent - they were there in 1946 but not sure how long beyond that? Trying to trace what happened to them as they are part of our family - quite difficult from Australia! No, I'm afraid not. Tunstall Crescent was in 2 parts, separated by Sherborne Road. As I remember it, number 2 would have been in that part separated from us. We lived at Number 50. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Post #1: Clinic orange juice....treat of the week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vintageann 66 Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 I rember having a nap in the nursery at bosworth school the Meadows then playing in the sand pit. Does anyone know what age you started nursery school at bosworth school I worked at Bosworth nursery from 1968 to 1971. Children could attend from age 3 years. I have some photos of nursery children from that time. Were you there then? I also have a note of the new starters in Jan and December 1969. In those times children did have an afternoon nap, on canvas beds each with a little blanket. Aaah! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 I remember nursery but don't know which one,shame Alison cc not posting,can remember a infant school on ryland cresent but don't think anyone else ever mentioned it,it was opposite the crescent pub think I went there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Not sure whether this is actually the earliest, but I have a distinct memory of going to Cornwall on holiday by train when I was just turned 2. This would be May 1951 - I remember sitting with my mum and dad, squashed in a very full compartment on the night train to Bristol, that left Derby about 1 o' clock in the morning. I was fascinated by a little brown dog that was sitting quietly in a basket up aloft on the luggage rack opposite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,646 Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Vintageann, I knew someone who worked at Bosworth road nursery about that time, I must send you a pm with the details, would be nice to be in touch again after all these years Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,215 Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 One of my ealiest memories was going to Rhyl when i was about 3, think we went every year until i was 12 or 13, caught the train at Midland station and seem to remember it stopping at Crewe,then seeing the mountains of North Wales,and towards the end of the journey the train ran along the coast,finally arriving in Rhyl........Once there i remember all the Barrow lads' vieing to take your luggage to the same 'Boarding house' on Wellington rd run by a mrs Saville,it was like another world back then in the 50s. Sadly the Rhyl of today is not anything like those far off halcyon days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,215 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Even earlier memory than above was when i was 2 in 1947,we moved from my Grandma's on Leybourne drive to the next street on Bestwood estate Andover road,i was in my pushchair going down Hove road behind my Dad who was carrying a huge Radio,i even remember the mans name he bought it off Mr.Rimmington,and it must have been around the same time i recall my Uncle Bill hammering new lino down on the landing,brown squared pattern it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 An early memory was having to live upstairs when the Trent flooded our house in 1947. Food was delivered by boat - would it have been the Red Cross? There was no water laid on upstairs so water must have been delivered I suppose. I remember seeing swans swimming along the yard. I have no memory of how we managed for toilets! Perhaps as well - - There must have been a terrible mess to clear up when the water went down but nobody was moved out, I don`t think. And the space under the floorboards must have been full of water as well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 A couple of my early memories: laying on the obscured glass grates on Peacheys st.staring through holes at the weightlifters in the basement of the YMCA, eating bar six chocolate on Vic station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fernilee567 33 Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Love all the memories Mine is being sat on my mums knee with the steam kettle boiling to create steam for my asthma- thankfully I only had it until I was five when we moved from Bingham to Nottingham 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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