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mobertol · 23-02-2012, 19:11

Just been reading some letters of my Grandads which mum has scanned and sent me.
He specifically mentions his first childhood memory which was paddling in the sea in 1914 in Blackpool and running along the beach besides the donkeys! Mt Gt-Grandma Lucy went there with 5 children to run a guest-house for Ghurkas!

Grandad was always a happy soul -presumably his first memory affected all his life.

Mine is of my sister falling in a rockpool in Cornwall when i was about 5 -she got out of going to church and I didn't. Went with dad and we bought a present for mum on the way back, which was an ashtray with a green fish in the bottom, he let me choose it. Think it was a Troika -got broken years ago...,

23-02-2012, 19:11	#2
mobertol God Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Northern Italy Posts: 4,419 Liked: 1866 times Rep Power: 26226	Re: Earliest childhood memory Just been reading some letters of my Grandads which mum has scanned and sent me. He specifically mentions his first childhood memory which was paddling in the sea in 1914 in Blackpool and running along the beach besides the donkeys! Mt Gt-Grandma Lucy went there with 5 children to run a guest-house for Ghurkas! Grandad was always a happy soul -presumably his first memory affected all his life. Mine is of my sister falling in a rockpool in Cornwall when i was about 5 -she got out of going to church and I didn't. Went with dad and we bought a present for mum on the way back, which was an ashtray with a green fish in the bottom, he let me choose it. Think it was a Troika -got broken years ago..., __________________ “Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.” ~ D. H. Lawrence