4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[jackiepoppies]

A really favourite piece of memorabilia

 

I have a beech chopping board my Dad made me in 1967 when I first got married. It is used practically every day and a constant reminder of him although he died in 1972. It means the world to me

 

It is definately one of the things I would rescue if my house caught fire

 

Jx

[kitbag]

One of the things that i would save if my house was on fire would be the beautiful clarinet my grandma left me when she died. The clarinet is called bertha, and i am planning to play her for the first time in my grade 8 exam at christmas!! (practising on her beforehand of course!!) It meant so much to me when she left Bertha to me though, because i was only 7 and had shown no sign of being musical either!! She means soo much to me and i would be devastated is she ever got taken away or broken!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

What a nice thread .

 

The only things that spring to mind are a tiny Japanese silver cruet set & dish which was given to me by my grandmother (who I never met). I took them to a kind of Antiques Road Show thing once but they aren't worth anything.

 

My dad also gave me a necklace of tiny elephants when I was small. Unfortunately they are ivory but as there's nothing I can do about that now, I still like it.

[Space Chick]

I have been a long standing season ticket holder at Cardiff City Football Club.

 

We have just had our last season in our old stadium (Ninian Park) and we are moving to a brand new stadium.

 

They gave season ticket holders the option to buy their seats to keep forever before they knock the old stadium down

 

So, I have bought mine and my sisters seat, I picked them up today and cried like a baby!

 

They are getting installed in my new Walk in Run

 

On a more sentimental note, I have some hand carved wooden salad tongs that my Dad brought me back as a present from Uganda when he went over there to build a school with a charity. My Dad died later on in that year, and using them is a constant reminder of what a special man he was.

[Snowy]

Lovely memorabilia!

I have a little china plaque, handpainted with my name, from the 60s. It was on my bedroom door as a baby. It has a big line across the middle where it has been glued together. My Dad broke it when he used too fat a nail to nail it to the door

[Tessa the Duchess]

I am not really a sentimental type, but I do have a Wade turtle that my mum bought for me when I was about 6, I keep my sons' baby teeth in it. I also have a very pretty little cut glass vase that my mum used to put sweet peas in, I always use it for my sweet peas.

 

Tessa

[Cinnamon]

Yes

 

I have Diana Dors' old coffee table in my living room.

 

When my grandparents bought their first nightclub, they bought it from DD & her then hubby when their marriage floundered.

This table was one of a few in the bar area, & its made of a slice of a big tree, & is a thing of beauty.

 

I used to polish it to death when it was in out nightclub,where I grew up as a girl, as I loved its shape & 'feel'

 

Then my Mum & stepdad got it when we sold the club, they restored it & gave it to us as a wedding pressie

 

I also have a much loved antique Indian dowry chest that Hubby bought for my birthday many years ago, & which we use in our living room. Its all knarly & battered, but I adore it

[helenp]

I have 3 items that I love. My nan's sideboard, which lived for many years in my parents shed before I got married & we got our house. It is dark wood & reminds me of my nan all the time. I also have my late mum and dad's best dress watches that only came out on special occassions. I wore my mums watch when I got married.

[Looney]

I have my Granny's old rolling pin which I asked for when I could choose anything from her house after she died. So important and special as she loved cooking for us all.

[Guest]

I have my Nana's old pressed glass bowl from Woolworths! My mum got it when nana died and mum always used it to make trifle in. She gave it to me a while back when I said I needed something to make trifle in.

 

It's years old but not worth anything, except sentimentally, this is it...

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2553410&l=42426ad25e&id=568396756

 

Mum was round here the other day and she said, "ooooooooo, I've got a bowl exactly the same as that one!" I said, "no you haven't mother!"

 

My mum also had my nana's old (1920s) swarovsky crystal beads restrung and gave them to me on my wedding day, I'm wearing them in this pic...

 

http://www.liverpoolpoet.talktalk.net/wedding1.JPG

 

... the only things I think I'd stop to save though would be my hubbie and my dog

[chick wiggle]

When my dad was 6 or 7 the war was on and him and his brother and sisters and my grandma went to the air raid shelter when the sirens went off one night. My granndad was out on patrol or something. After the all clear sounded they came out to go home and all that was left of the house was rubble. The only thing that my grandma saved (albeit a bit battered) was a silver fruit bowl. My mum had it in their house for years before i knew the story. Now I have it. Its a bit battered, but bombing does that i suppose. I love it exactly as it is because of the story behind the dents.

 

My grandad showed up alive and well by the way

[Space Chick]

Yes

 

I have Diana Dors' old coffee table in my living room.

 

 

What a wonderful item to have

[jackiepoppies]

Love that story Sandie

 

Jx

[Redwing]

I have two pictures of my dad who died when I was 13, one is his bus pass with his pic on and the other is a pic of him asleep

 

I don't know how I ended up with so few photos, if only we could turn time back eh?

[Clash City Rocker]

I have this.

 

 

 

It's an original copy of "Give em enough Rope", signed by my "Hero" Mick Jones (see my photo's).

 

The inscription reads "To Andy, "Stay Free" - Mick Jones" (Stay Free is my favourite song ever, written by Mick Jones).

 

It's on of the three things that I would save if there was a fire, along with my collection of new wave vinyl and one of the Twins.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Respect

[Cinnamon]

That is so cool Clash

 

Not in that league,but I do have a hand written letter to me from Duran Durans John Taylor

 

I still think he is gorgeous actually...........................

[jackiepoppies]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing Tasha ............I wish I had it when I was younger!

 

Jx

[jackiepoppies]

Cinnamon,

 

Programme about DD on now!

 

Jx

[The Dogmother]

I have a few things, my Singer sewing machine and Kenwood mixers are both family hand me downs and get used all the time

[chickencam]

We have a tea caddy spoon that was a wedding present when my OH's Nan & Grandpa (both now sadly passed on) got married. It has a horseshoe on it and we use it daily.

 

We also have a grandmother clock which OH inherited from his Nan and a wooden stool in the kitchen which we bought for her and got back after she died. We were very close to his Nan who was a widow for 20 years.

 

I have loads of my Gran's sewing bits and bobs, button, ribbon etc and when we lost our tent in a storm in 2002 it was one of her old tea towels that I chased across a field to get back because it reminded me of her.

[Looney]

Ooh I just remembered we have a (business) letter written to OH by the chairman of Real Madrid football club and he congratulates OH on the arrival of our son and hopes he didn't get his father's looks! Ha ha ha, that is a bit of memorabilia for Bogwoppit when he grows up!

[Happy chickens!]

My father in law worked with bands in the sixties and has passed on to us various signed pics etc: Kiki Dee, mmm don't think I'd rescue that one from a fire but the one from the Beatles maybe! I think I treasure the photos of the kids when they were little most - keep meaning to scan to have digitally, and love letters from my husband when we were students kept in an old chocolate box with drawers.

[Aga n Chickens]

Exactly the same Claret

 

I have an old treddle singer sewing machine that is used as a table at the moment I intend to put it to good use when I get me dream home with the aga and large garden

 

Mum taught me how to sew on a treddle and I never got on well with the electric sewing machines they introduced to the school during our sewing lessons.

Much to the dismay of the teachers I always opted for the treddle machine so they kept it in the classroom just for me.

Full of good intentions I just had to buy myself one when I had my own house.

 

At the moment I don't have the space to use it. For years (well for the last 26 years to be honest ) it has lived in the hallway. I'm not sure if the belt will need replacing when I do eventually get round to using it.

 

My mum is having to part with her treddle as she has moved into a warden aided bungalow and doesn't have room for it anymore. She wants the s"Ooops, word censored!" van to pick it up, but it has wonderful inlayed wood patterns and if I had room I'd love to give it a home. I did mention it to OH but he said that I already have one that I didn't use and can't understand why I keep holding on to it Men....they just don't see the potential do they when it comes to crafty ideas

 

I swapped a small hand held mixer for my Gran's Kenwood Chef back in the '70s as she needed something lighter and the Kenwood was getting too heavy for her. Best swap I've ever done....and it's still going strong.

Once again OH only sees the 'faf' I go through when I lug the machine out of the pantry and has suggested that I get something more 'modern' looking

I remind him that there are still Kenwoods in John Lewis' that may be a different color, but they are still the same basic model. If it works, why change it.

 

Now it just need that aga sized kitchen so that I can keep it out within handy reach on the worktop.

 

Christine