Extreme MSE

monnagran

I've just caught up with this thread. Fascinating stuff.

Gers, I notice that in 1959 your mother spent £28. 4s.6d. on her chair and stool. I was teaching in 1959 and that was just a few shillings less than my entire months salary. No wonder they lasted!

I think that is why so many of that generation's, and previous generations, things are still in use. Having saved up long, and probably painfully, they weren't going to let things go in a hurry.

I still have the box my MIL's Hoover was sent in. It dates from sometime in the 1920's and the pictures of said vacuum on the front of the box are typical of the time. It also bears a stuck on label fixed by me in the 60s bearing the legend 'Christmas Decs'. When I mentioned getting rid of it last year when I was moving, my youngest protested saying that it was always the beginning of the Christmas excitement when that box was brought down from the attic. However, I'm now living in a small bungalow and there isn't really room for sentiment, so either he takes it or it will have to go.

I do have a tablecloth made by my grandmother in the 1880s. White with beautiful drawn thread work, which only sees the light of day on State Occasions.

csarina, I had to laugh at your mention of the Revo cooker.
My father worked all his life for the Southern Electricity Company. and he had a colleague who was always called Jackson. Indeed I thought that was his name until I discovered that he was in fact Mr Overton.
And why was he always known as Jackson?
Well. When the first electric cookers were made there were two brands, Revo and Jackson. Overton spelt backwards is 'not revo', so obviously he had to be called Jackson.

Molly41

I have two very old smart tubes which my grandfather saved money in for me x

k4ren2006

Went through my dearly departed dads record collection yesterday, some mint condition  classic albums there.  Quick Google shows they may fetch a few pound. All 70s but I'd would never part with them but my DD was eyeing a few up...cheek lol

grunnie

I had a Minty suite in 1971. 2sofas and a table with matching edges in green tweed. They lasted till a few years ago and I think tbey were handed on to someone to recover. I have a breadboard that my granny got for her wedding in 1918. Also 2 very old biscuit tins that she kept flour in one and salt in another. I also have a grandmother clock from the same date a d it still chimes and keeps good time. I didn't think when i inherited that I would be a grandmother of 6 one day. I also have a flower pot that my grandfather made from a shellcase in the first war.

kittieviolet

Really enjoying this thread. I have never married so 20 years ago some of my relatives felt that it was unfair that I had never received a 'wedding box' from them particularly as I had bought a property of my own and was trying to furnish it. I was allowed to have some bits and bobs that I still have 20 years on and treasure. I have 2 wing back chairs that belonged to my Nan. She had inherited them from someone who had inherited them from someone else who had been gifted them when they left 'service'. I had them re upholstered and they are from the 1880s and still very much loved and in use. I also have my Nans old china from the 1930's and 1920s mantle clock of my Great Nans. I have a Great Aunts china, a 1930's chair and a blanket box and my Grandads writing bureau.
Personally still loving using them every day and they bring back so lovely memories of my elder relatives.