Childhood memories, anyone written a book about thiers ?

[Dave7]

I am 78.
My daughter has asked me to write a book on my childhood so the grandchildren can enjoy them.
I didn't fancy doing it but agreed.
I am, at this stage, making brief notes for each memory and will then write them long hand.
After 1 hour I am on number 9.
eg as a young lad I recall the 'gas lamp lighters' our back streets were lit by gas lamps and a guy would come around in the evening......he had a long pole with a hook and would light them. Next morning he would be back to close it down.
I have lots more memories to write about.

 

[Sharky]

Not written a book, but I remember watching the very first episode of Dr Who.

 

[fossyant]

I remember getting run over by a milk float as a kid. Squashed my trike. I was only 2 or 3. Hmm, I started this falling off bikes from an early age. I'm no better at 55 !

 

[raleighnut]

I am 78.
My daughter has asked me to write a book on my childhood so the grandchildren can enjoy them.
I didn't fancy doing it but agreed.
I am, at this stage, making brief notes for each memory and will then write them long hand.
After 1 hour I am on number 9.
eg as a young lad I recall the 'gas lamp lighters' our back streets were lit by gas lamps and a guy would come around in the evening......he had a long pole with a hook and would light them. Next morning he would be back to close it down.
I have lots more memories to write about.

Not 'lamplighters' but I remember as a kid when we went to 'natural gas' the guy finding out that the old pipes that led to gaslights upstairs were still 'live' in our terraced house, OK they'd been capped off but the pipes were still connected

 

[biggs682]

@Dave7 I have been telling and asking my father the same thing for about 10 years, still hasn't started.

I have even volunteered to write it myself if he gives me the details

 

[Dave7]

I have just been told I can get a note book designed to help write this book. I will Google it.

 

[Chris S]

We lived in a rural area and a 'mobile shop' would call once a week. It had a window in the side like an ice-cream van but it sold everything.

 

[fossyant]

I also remember chasing my sister around the dining table, falling, and splitting my eye brow open. Still have a scar to this day.

I also remember a top loading washer falling on my head - we were den building and a mate knocked over a discarded washer (small one) and it bounced down the hill. I was stood at the bottom. Another trip to A&E.

Hmmm, definitely accident prone.

 

[dicko]

I have loads of notes about my RAF childhood adventures in foreign countries for my book. I have photos too of my upbringing and adventures. The discovery of the secret SS bunker deep in the woods and also what appeared to be a V2 launch site is two of the best yarns.

 

[numbnuts]

I started writing a book at the start of my divorce, it was mainly to set the records straight so that my daughter could see for herself when she grow up that it was not my fault. When it was up to date, I started writing about my life as a child including photos of my family and all the places I have lived here in England and of course Aussie, I quite enjoyed doing it and it covered four A4 clip folders.
Many years later I met my daughter, she was three the last time I saw her and was now 31, so many years had passed, she was a stranger to me and so was my grandaughter who I have never seen before which was a shock to say the least.
To cut a long story short she ripped me off for £400 and refused to pay it back, if she had asked up front I would have given it to her, but know it was the way she did it and them belittered me all over Facebook and I had many uttering filthy comments left for me by her friends.
A while later I shredder a life times work never to be repeated.

 

[yello]

My daughter has asked me to write a book on my childhood so the grandchildren can enjoy them

That's a lovely idea! You could even do drawings/sketches to accompany your words, don't worry about them not being very good. Sometimes what makes a drawing, imho, is exactly that it's 'not very good'. It speaks of you as much as the words you choose, a wonderfully personalised tale from you to your grandchildren.

Don't think of it as a book you have to write (if that's too daunting), think of it being maybe like bed time stories, but ones they'll get to keep a hard copy of it. Hand written, hand drawn and bound. It's a beautiful idea, you're so lucky to have a daughter that values both your childhood and that of her children.

Go on, do it! Keep your stories alive!

 

[cyberknight]

I dont think my childhood would make fun reading , mother died was i was 10 and i pretty much did the stuff around the house as my dad was so deep in grief that someone had to keep things going .

 

[steveindenmark]

I am 78.
My daughter has asked me to write a book on my childhood so the grandchildren can enjoy them.
I didn't fancy doing it but agreed.
I am, at this stage, making brief notes for each memory and will then write them long hand.
After 1 hour I am on number 9.
eg as a young lad I recall the 'gas lamp lighters' our back streets were lit by gas lamps and a guy would come around in the evening......he had a long pole with a hook and would light them. Next morning he would be back to close it down.
I have lots more memories to write about.

When you look at the old gas lampe you see they are all in a crucifix form. I found out recently that the cross piece was to hang that big stick from.

 

[Dave7]

I dont think my childhood would make fun reading , mother died was i was 10 and i pretty much did the stuff around the house as my dad was so deep in grief that someone had to keep things going .

But that's the point.....its not supposed to be fun. Its for your grandchildren or other young generation to know what we did and went through.