🤣🤣 I know that lad, I'll get there in the end, I only spent 50 quid so not that bad but its doing my head in 🤣🤣

I don't think you can get that your lost coins again because the memory lost and the lost of all the trackable means is too high. Even you find out the site the person sold his coins at that time. The site the person used might not the same with yours. Now if you can remember any of the old sites that were selling and buying bitcoin then you can make some traces from that angle. But asking people in the forum to tell your if they have sell bitcoin in that year is looked like childish. You can even google them to know if there was any existing exchange platform in bitcoin since 2009. Or you can restructure the clause to suit your taste. Most of the platforms that were selling and buying bitcoin in those days of 2009 to 2011 are no more. They have been replace with smart exchange. And since there is no trance, remembrance and knowledge about the whole stuff will be very hard to recovered. And you are the only person who can find it out if it is possible. But I don't think it will be possible. You can cognitively remember the forums you used at that time and if not then forget about the coins.
If like research : you can visit this https://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php

I'm not asking if someone on here sold me the coins,  I'm just trying to retrace my steps, there wasn't any exchanges in 2009 they was sold peer to peer, so I'm not being childish just trying to jog my memory

Hahaha! You have a great sense of humor!

I'm not sure what your investment portfolio looked like in 2009, but it's safe to say that Bitcoin wasn't a part of it at the time.

Am sorry if you bought the bitcoin into a cold storage that gives you access to the private keys, then you have to find those keys to unlock your bitcoin on the blockchain irrespective of the device used as lobg as you have the private keys, but if you cant get it then you may have to get it, also if the bitcoin was bought and stored on a centralized exchange wallet, then try to remember the password abd email address used for the hot wallet to have access to the bitcoin provided that the exchange is not gone down already by now.

Sorry, but it seems lost forever. 2009 was already long enough especially since you transferred to different houses. It is really true that we can only give importance to any stuffs when it becomes valuable. It's like a lost opportunity. I remember there were faucets before that are now worth some dollars per claim. If I knew bitcoin would be as valuable as today, I would've put all my money into it.

What we can do now is to take advantage of its price while it is still low compared to its ATH. Still very very far from the 2009 price but at least profit is profit and more realistic.

It looks like he's one among the early investor on bitcoin. The white paper got published on 2008 and came to usage during the year 2009. Op have bought it on the same year, almost 14 years passed and now he had remembered the buying. Anyhow its ones own ability to search and find. As most people have suggested, lost the key and it's lost forever. It is his sole right to go find it same as what an IT guy have been doing with some agreement with the city council to search the trash dump for three years spending $11m.

The quest to find $181 million in bitcoin buried in a dump

Better to just go back to your sleep, because you are no longer of this age, how come you have gone off since 2009 and just I'm coming alive now after such a long time?

This is most impossible thing to do right now because the time-space has really been too long and you won't even have a record of where the coins are stored because even though you get the acclaimed seller from that forum, you still do not have any guarantee of getting those coins back since you bought and transferred those coins to your personal wallet at that time.

That's a very long time ago, OP. Supposing your story is true and you spent 50 quid for some Bitcoin, you must have tens of thousands of coins. That should be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Indeed, that's worth all the efforts to try recover them. No stone should be left unturned.

Anyway, you must have used an email when you signed up to that forum? Try to recover that also. You might find some old confirmation messages from that forum.

But I still wonder how you could possibly retrieve those coins even if you recovered everything save for your keys.