Remember when

This is a Ladies Vintage Cardinal Wrist Watch 1940's A55430 . This watch does not run and has normal age wear. I cannot guarantee my older watches and clocks and I try to say in my ad whether they run or not so you buy as is No Returns.Needs a gentle cleaning and repairs to make it run. It may be Gold filled but is not marked that I could find. May be marked inside, Just not sure. If you have any more questions please ask before you purchase. I ship to the USA. No International Shipping. I…

The old drapery shop , buttons and bows !

Babies left in their prams outside the shops, safe & sound. How the world has changed since then :(

The history of Roundtree's Fruit Pastilles and Gums

Scored this gorgeous book for a quarter! Illustrated by Hilda Bowell in 1963. A Child's Garden of Verses, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was first published in 1885. Did you know that it first appeared under the title 'Penny Whistles'? I especially like reading the poem 'The Swing' to my kids.

If you know, don't tell.

Vintage Christmas Fairy

Bob Mockford Online - A Bus Conductor's Museum

I must admit I wasn’t a big T.Rex fan in the early 70s. I liked their music and I bought the singles: "Metal Guru" and "Solid Gold Easy Action" in 1972, but their singer Marc Bolan appealed more to girls than to me and my friends. My sister had a Bolan poster on her bedroom wall but I was too much into Slade to bother about T.Rex. But by 1977 Marc Bolan was appealing to a new audience which included young punks like me. He went on tour with The Damned as support band (unfortunately I didn’t…

1953 Triumph Mayflower

vintage Christmas tree fairy

We still use these, although the string is now knotted together it's so old

Today there was too much laundry for our clothes lines so I dried some of it the old fashioned way. I threw the clothes on the hedge. Very effective and intensely satisfying. The antiquity of this method is attested by the term "winter hedge", for what I call a clothes horse. “Winter hedge” goes back at least as far as Old English (about 800 years). And so far as I can tell by looking at a few websites, was common until quite recently in northern England - specifically West Yorkshire, south…

Womens' Wood and Leather Clogs Pair of wood and beige leather exercise clogs. Footshape open toe, wooden base upcurved under metatarsal arch; adjustable leather strap, side stamped: Dr Scholls Made in Western Germany, low heel, rubber sole. Rights info: Non commercial use accepted. Please credit to "Northampton Museums & Art Gallery". Please contact Northampton Museums Service if you wish to use this image commercially. Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery…