Collocations for memory - noun

excellent, good, long, prodigious, retentive | bad, poor, short | long-term, short-term
His short-term memory was damaged in the accident.

visual
Bad spellers have a weak visual memory.

photographic

jog, refresh
Seeing your name in the paper jogged my memory.

lose
Most people start to lose their memory as they get older.

commit sth to
I committed the number to memory and threw the letter away.

from ~
He recited the whole poem from memory.

~ for
I have a good memory for faces.

in living/recent memory
the coldest winter in living memory

childhood, early
My earliest childhood memory is of falling in a pond in winter.

dim, distant, fading, hazy, vague | clear, vivid | affectionate, fond, good, happy, lovely, nostalgic, pleasant, positive, precious, sweet, warm, wonderful | bitter-sweet | bad, bitter, disturbing, embarrassing, horrific, painful, sad, traumatic, unhappy, unpleasant | abiding, enduring, lasting, lingering
My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.

bring back, evoke, rekindle, revive, stir (up) | blot out
He tried to blot out his memories of the ordeal.

come flooding back, flood back
When we visited my old family home, memories came flooding back.

fade

in ~ of
He planted some apple trees in memory of his wife.

~ from
Smells and tastes often evoke memories from the past.

~ of
fond memories of her childhood