Pete.8, I remember Petticoat Lane very well I was born not far from there I was 22 in 1968 so might have seen him with his barrow. My aunt had a sweet stall or shop can't remember which and I helped her out at weekends.
Lyn, that does ring a bell but I used to go Pike fishing with my dad and brothers so might be getting confuse with that. Not sure what the sweet shop was called but do remember making the toffee, barley sugar, butterscotch things like that. If I can find the old cash book the name might be on there. Why do you ask?
We inherited a children's bible written by my husband's great grandfather, who was moderator of the Church of Scotland briefly. It's rather old-fashioned for my grandchildrens' tastes though and not in very good condition so not opened very often.
I wear my mother's wedding ring, her mother's engagement ring, and her mother's wedding ring. I use my mother's iron which is almost as old as me, I am 67. I have a firescreen made by a great uncle to frame the embroidery which my great aunt entered in the 1914 national Eisteddfod. I have Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia that was read by my dad and his brothers. In the garage, a sturdy wooden table that another of my many great uncles made for his mother to stand her washtub on. My brother's grandchildren play with a scale model of the 1953 coronation coach, and chalk on a lovely pair of slates enclosed in a hinged wooden frame.
Hostafan 1, I love the sewing machine my mum had one just like take, don't know what happened to it. Near the floor was a treadle which worked the machine, she made everything on it from cloths to soft furnishings.
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