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Me too. Ours was small I made dens with it Nan's was double the size. Dad came home with an upight concertina one, that used to come down on you & my fingers. But we had a garden. Nan had a pulley line in the kitchen and over her bath. I forgot about those. I am yet to see one like gran's little...

A sad note but it sticks in my mind that she lost several babies whilst doing the washing as did my great gran. Off topic I suppose but sort of linked.

My mate's gran gave me an imagibary washboard demo. She stood behind it with a big block of soap and scrubbed up & down the bottom of it in the poss tub. For sone reason I didn't think you stood up. The granny had a small one on her sink in the 70s still.

Its like the one I couldn't turn. Small Mangle on the right too at the front. Where did they hang the washing, across their street,? In Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds it was hung across the windows. Would they have had the Italian type airers on pulleys?

It's like the one I couldn't turn.

Twiddle the thing that adjusted the height of the rollers. Dry it all off.

I thought it was cool to help nan mangling till I tried . Bent over, onee foot on the base to stop it slipping, enough pressure turn the handle , one hand to catch the clothes. I couldn't even turn the handle of the one in the kitchen!

I had a double page spread in a French paper a modern article commemorating D Day about the allied troups & what French people felt then. I gave it, with a translation to an e x serviceman for his association. And a A5, four page French newspaper 1940 I think to a French history group in...

Ex Servicemens' organisations would be interested & history groups. We gave ours to one.

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There was a Trafalgar Road History Society you could try & Google them. Some houses in Park Hill were demolished too. I was told because of their physical state. One had been shored up since the blitz.

They were red when I went. A long time ago now

The top photo reminds of a photo I was given of my 3 cousins, the 3 eldest of 10 children, all in knitted outfits. One of their siblings told me everything was knitted. Their toys. Even their all in one swimming costumes.

I was 6 I think. We went to my cousin's wedding. Mum unwired it. It was red and blue tartan.

False fingers and googly eyes on springs. I had a light up dickie and a huge rubber spider which propelled by a squeezy ball. Rude matchboxes & pens you tipped that had a clear top with oil in it. Whoopee cushions that foundd their way in to my office.

I used to buy these from the joke shop, also gone, I sat between 2 women at work. One used to say tell her such and such, as they didn't get on, the other was neurotic and chattered to a frenzy so I would put the teeth on the desk and she would laugh and stop,

The last farm animals I posted that I bought are Britains stamped 1982. From an old fashioned toyshop called Goldie. Not here now. Purchased probably longer ago than I thought.

`he's a bit spooky

I can't edit on my phone but bachelor dogs should read breeds

I collected Gollys for an enamel brooch & a pottery one. And cardboard. Kraaft vouchers for a record of Mary Poppins Lets Go Fly A Kite , not even toriginalbut I forgot what toys we got from the cornflake boxes. I used to collect little bachelor dog breeds, & bigger horses & deetr, from Woolies