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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.

Me too

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

Ay thay small now!!!!! The shysters!

I didn't know about St Anne Moseley as it looks nice now I wish they hsd retored the Coventry churches & old cathedral. But I expect tge flock would have dwindled but they would pull the tourists. 46 was lot!

But I have playing cards in their original boxes & 2 board games in wooden boxes buy I posted them before , they were my great great aunt's who ran a childrens' home. I had a sort of satchel from it but smaller but it went mouldy which she kept coloured pencils in & a wire stick with tiny wooden...

I will try & look the make out we have a sheep donkey & cow in the nativity manger that didnt come with it, I bought those 30 odd years ago & again for our grandson about 10 years ago but I don't see them now.

My Nan kept everything in it's original box like her iron, neck clippers, fairy lights. I remember when toy boxes without dangerous unopenable wire grips . The toys were kept in place by formed carboard. Our grandchikdren keep their boxes if they are like rooms of a house.