What stories/memories have been passed down the generations to you?

[Susu49]

Inspired by a couple of threads, what stories/anecdotes/memories have been passed down the generations to you from your family (or other people you've met)?

Don't have many in my family, grandparents weren't really ones for discussing the past but I remember stories of the bombs falling in London, my grandpa walking a date in an air raid because she wouldnt go to a shelter.

I'm really fascinated by the oral history that's passed down and it doesn't get recorded anywhere! I'd love to hear yours...

My grandad as a young boy spent time in America as his dad was in a band. He used to tell how they were meant to travel on the Titanic but fortunately missed the sailing by a few days and went on a later ship. My other Grandad helped to liberate the concentration camps after ww2, he was in the medical corps and saw some terrible things. He came home and was never quite the same. He said he would never bring another child into the world which is why my dad is an only child.