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What have you inherited that you still use.

LynLyn Posts: 23,190
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I think there was a thread on this before, I can’t find it.

I’ve got this lovely little cookery book inherited from mum. Very useful even tells you how much coal to put on the fire.  I could never part with this little book.
There’s even a section on how to get your ‘girles’ to learn baking.  Maybe the boys just get the coal in. 


Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My mum still has one of those.  I think my generation all have the Good Housekeeping cook book.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    My Great Grandfather's old sack barrow which he used to deliver fruit and veg in Petticoat Lane market - it's incredibly heavy and still frequently used



    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Has no one ever effed your charms? 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    I have my Great Grandfathers bible he was a ships captain. I also have many books and china from my grandmother and both her wedding and engagement ring. This is just one of her books. I'm almost 74 so this book is old.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I love that chocolate cookbook. 
    The barra Pete, brings back memories, I used to go there every Sunday and buy ex juke box records and an adaptor for my record player. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    Pete.8 said:
    My Great Grandfather's old sack barrow which he used to deliver fruit and veg in Petticoat Lane market - it's incredibly heavy and still frequently used



    We have one exactly the same!  My father in law used to work at covent garden, when it was still a fruit & veg market.   And yes, incredibly heavy so it isn't used that much.  

    We also have his father’s garden tools, complete with repairs, and they are still in use!
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Lyn, the book is still well used, we love one of the cake Chocolate Walnut Layer Cake. Trouble is the liquid is all in gill so unless you know the conversion it's a problem. It doesn't only have cakes there are sweets, drinks, Ice cream, souffles and more. I've just been looking in it but can't find a date but it is old and was given to my grandmother by her mother, whether it was new then I have know idea.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I have my gran's old greenhouse, cold frame, water butt and some tools all still being put to good use. I wish I had more of her garden gear but I think a lot ended up in a skip thanks to my ex-brother-in-law.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    wild edges, you've just reminded me I have a tool with three hook like things on it, I use it between the rows of veg, two other small hand tools again I haven't any idea what the are called or meant for. There are also two large Scythes and a smaller one never used them. The trouble is my grandfather would go to the smithy and show him what he wanted and he would make it.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s an awful shame, especially when someone else has come in and taken charge.

    Does anyone remember a book called Frankly Feminine, 
    a salesman came to the place I worked in 1964 ish,  targeting the girls.
    It was everything a girl should know to become a lady,  well it was a good book, unfortunately you  cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear.   Bit wasted on me, I can’t see my daughter wanting to inherit it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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