What have you got lying around your home that was in your childhood home?

snoozer

An oak bookcase made by my grandad who died in 1969. Lots of books, both mine and mum's so they came from my grandparent's house which was a farmhouse next door.

We also have a piano which has been in my family for about 100 years.

CapricornLass

I have, amongst other things, two tablespoons that my mother used to measure out ingredients with when baking, and a cut glass bowl that was always used for trifle at Christmas.  I also have a very old Singer sewing machine, dating from 1912, a lovely yellow and turquoise 1930s teaset which I remember from when I was very young, and I've just inherited two Hummel figurines which my mother has had since she was married.

But I have things that belonged to my grandparents too.  A corner chair that my maternal grandmother always used to get into her very high bed, a china lady in Georgian dress that once held bath salts and which she treasured all her life, my paternal grandfather's mantle clock with Westminster chimes, and his barometer.  Oddest of all, my grandmother's Scottish Psalter, which was lost when she died and her possessions disposed of, and which was bought two years ago by the vicar who supported the care home my parents were in, which she subsequently gave to my father.  She only bought it because the surname inscribed in it was the same as my father's name!

weenancyinAmerica

@CapricornLass - that sounds like the window my sister made in stained glass. They put it in the window of the rental they were living in. When they moved, they had to leave it behind. 40 years later my brother in law was driving through the area and drove by the house to see that it was being remodeled. He asked about the window and they gave it to him. It is now installed in their new (now 46 year old) house.

sillyvixen

After my mum passed, I asked my dad to borrow a gravy jug and some lidded dishes for Christmas dinner - he gifted me 2 vintage lidded dishes and marching gravy boat and saucer that had been a wedding present (they were buried so far back in the kitchen cupboards I had never seen them before - I expected to get a few mismatched bits that we used at home growing up). I actually found a 3rd matching lidded dish on eBay for £7 a few years later so as I didn't have to use a mismatching casarole dish! Dad also gave me my mum's expensive hand blown wine glasses for special occasions as he has loads of wine glasses and feels safer using something cheaper that he doesn't have to worry about breaking. All these are treasured items.

I have loads of stuff from my grandparents!! My diningroom has their table and chairs (although I have covered the chairs to match my colour scheme as they were yellow). The display cabinet in the dining room used to live in my grandparents living room and hold my grandmother's nick nacks -  now holds my mum's bits, other glasses, cake stand, vases, tea set, expresso cups and my nans crystal jam pot. We have a bookcase on the landing that was from grandparents house and a chest of drawers from them in the spare room.

My mason and cash mixing bowl was from one grandparent, I have lots of kitchen equipment from the other grandparents (dishes, casarole dishes, a brilliant soup pan, loaf tins, milk jugs, desert spoons and some vintage  cocktail picks??) I have more from one set of grandparents than the other.  When I lost my first set of grandparents I was still at school and didn't need much, when I lost the my last remaining grandparent I was buying  my house and had much more use for things.

I also have jewellery, my wedding ring is my grandmother's - it had to be cut off 36 hours before death - I promised her it would be repaired and worn (I used to wear it on my right hand) but chose to use it as my wedding ring. I have also inherited her eternity ring. From the other side I have pearls my grandmother inherited from her mother and I wore them on my wedding day.

zcrat41

I have a grandfather clock made in the late 1700’s. My great grandfather won it in a bet in the late 1800’s. Inside, my grandad used to hide his sweets from his sister! I adore it and was very lucky to be gifted it by my godmother (her husband is my Dads cousin) 

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annieb64

Family bible, bookcase and wooden laundry box.I also have a tablecloth with a crochet edge which my grandmother made in the 1920s but didn't inherit that until about 1990

Lavendyr

Look at the OP's threads. They ask specific questions and do not return to them.

Is it just me or are they looking for sensitive details that could be passwords? This is a really clever way of finding out peoples' ages. 

marcia_

 My in-laws have a tv and landline phone both over 20yrs old. We offered to upgrade them so they will have a digital tv but they were not interested as they still work. 

florianatwobob

Quite a lot too. My paternal Gt Grandad’s writing desk (then used by my grandad), a China tea set of my grandparents and one of their table cloths, some china ornamental boots of paternal great grandma’s. Those gt-grandparents were born in the 1870s. The grandparents were born 1899-1903. I’ve also got a copper warming pan of my maternal great-grandma’s and she was born in the 1860s. Mum remembered it being used to warm her bed in WWII. Oh and a vase from my maternal grandma and my maternal grandad’s tool box which was originally from his post WWI army service. 

UKX69

I have a grandfather clock that’s in my daughter’s house around the corner, so it’s not strictly ‘lying around’ my house, but near enough. It belonged to my grandparents. I don’t know how true this is, but I believe that at the time they got married, it was the custom to present newlyweds with a clock as the first item for a home (if they could afford it presumably). They past away in 1959/60, so it came to my mother. I also have bits and pieces of pottery that belonged to my grandmother, including a child’s tea set in the style of small cottages and seen often on antique programs. I’m quite sure she had some Clarice Cliff pottery as well, as I was fascinated by the patterns and colours. Long time ago…..