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Topic: Which items from the past do you still use? (Read 4747 times)
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annieoburns
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My favourite oldies are fountain pens. 
Anne
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Wiffen, Utton, Clark, Spires, Frisby, Raybould, Charlton, Green, (England)
Flood, Daly, Doran, Mc Kercher, Gardiner, (Ireland/England)
Reid, Burns (Ireland)
McGourty, Daly (Ireland/America)
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kooky
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1475
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Some recipes, from my mother,and those the children [they are both over 30!]
used to enjoy.
Also a letter opener my father was given in the fifties.
Kooky
oh and a glass bell bauble and an angel doll both older than me, that will be on my Christmas tree next week! 
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« Last Edit: Tuesday 11 December 07 21:38 UTC (UK) by kooky »
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Clulo - Staffs.,Warwickshire, Lancs.1780 -1950
Fisher- Nafferton,Hull, Manchester.1770-1840-1950
Kane&McNeill,Forkhill, Armagh and Glasgow,Bray Dublin.1850s -1920
Boshell and Dowzard- Dublin, 1840s -1911
Kay/Bremner Edinburgh 1800 - 1841.Kay Staffs.& Lancs1842 -1901
Kay - Newcastle on Tyne 1780-1861
Swindell[s], Marple & Manchester 1900->
Makinson, M/c & Prestwich 1870 ->
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stoney
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Posts: 456
Mum, bless her!
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My Gran's knitting needle guage (even if it is in Imperial measurement!)
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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karenlee
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Posts: 3538
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My great grandmother's dining table and chairs, some of her cutlery and lots of her recipes
Karenlee
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Christine in Portugal
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 518
Grandparents, Ernest & Emily Walker 1920
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Still use my grandmother's Christmas cake and Christmas pudding recipes.
I still have some 1lb loaf bread tins too that were grandmother's and they are a lot stronger than the ones you can buy today.
Christine
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Mallinson- Lepton Walker, Smith, Slater, Blacker - Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield Claybourne/Clayburn - Norton Doncaster Birkenshaw/Birkinshaw - Doncaster Hall - Skelbrooke, Doncaster Bisby - Campsall, Doncaster Hemsworth - Doncaster Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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dennford
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Posts: 2132
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I was still using a "Thornto Pickard" plate camera untill a few years ago, I had to make my own photographic emulsion to coat the plates with. I finally gave up using it because of those messy procedures and it now sits on my desk.
I also still use an old wooden jack plane like the ones we used at school woodwork - it is far more useful than an electric plane.
But of course when on the farm over in the Philipines we use many olden day impements including a single blade plough pulled by water buffalo, a well for water and hand tools for harvesting rice. It's so strange to see these implements being used alongside laptops and mobile phones.
Denn
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Ford, Baines, Dixon, Platts, Peat, Proctor, Rotherforth, Dakin/Daykin, Sales, Beech, Hall, Parkin, Nightingale. ----- Harthill, Waleswood, Woodhouse-mill, Whitwell
South Yorkshire/Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire
Torremocha, Candog, Ramos, Reyes, Rodrigueus
-------Philippines --- Bohol
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aghadowey
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Posts: 13677
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My mother-in-law's wooden spoons, rolling pin, potato masker, cutler (and still have a few used canteen that she got as wedding gifts), her sewing things (and until recently her treadle sewing machine), dining room chairs that belonged to husband's great-grandfather, Queen cake recipe that husband's mother got from her grandmother, other family recipes, my grandmother's sugar shell which always sat in the sugar bowl on her kitchen table, and lots of old Christmas ornaments (oldest from 1901).
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XPhile2868
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I don't use anything fom the past myself, but my dad still has a lot of stuff from when he was a kid in the 1960s and we also have this little booklet from when my grandad did national service in Malta and what is now Yemen (he was a driver in the RAF).
Stephen
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Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Kendal) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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kennyb
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My Wife  She still looks as good and runs as smooth as she did forty years ago
Ken
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dennford
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But do you?
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Ford, Baines, Dixon, Platts, Peat, Proctor, Rotherforth, Dakin/Daykin, Sales, Beech, Hall, Parkin, Nightingale. ----- Harthill, Waleswood, Woodhouse-mill, Whitwell
South Yorkshire/Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire
Torremocha, Candog, Ramos, Reyes, Rodrigueus
-------Philippines --- Bohol
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XPhile2868
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Do houses count? If so, then our house is definately from the past - it was built in 1893.
Stephen
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Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Kendal) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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