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Your Garden Tools Old & New

Thanks len I have just shut my eyes and are getting your image. I always wanted to be born a boy and was always in my dad's shed and had my own little saw and tiny oil can to oil the bearings on my rollers skates. Pete lent it to someone and as per usual didn't get it back. I asked the bloke for it and he had no recolection of borrowing it but it was a memory of my dad and I wasn't well pleased [with Pete either]. Jean.
 
My son rented a house in a Leics village and when his 68 year old next door neighbour Barry left he bought his house.
He 'inherited' a huge shed and its contents all of which had years before belonged to Barrys father.
It is like an Aladins cave of old tools and nails and screws in tobacco tins.
The garden tools include a fork and spade which are nearly too heavy to lift.
My sons favourite is the large shovel that Barrys father used down the pit in Coalville
 
What a find Alberta. I would love to see some photo's of them especially the shovel. I presume your son moved on from there so there wouldn't be any photo's. Would love to have seen the shovel. Jean.
 
No he is still there Jean,I must get some photos to post on here.
Lovely little house in a row of former miners cottages,has been extended but still has long garden complete with 2 sheds and greenhouse and open fields as far as the eye can see.
 
That sound a lovely place to live Alberta. Hope you can post the photo's. I would like to put my dad's watch and clock repairing tools on. My brother had them made into a picture and hangs on his wall. Will get him to copy it for me. Jean.
 
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