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Topic: Which items from the past do you still use? (Read 3891 times)
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ridban
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Having recently been re-acquainted with a good old fashioned hot water bottle, (& wondering how I've ever coped without it!!!) I was wondering which other items from the past are still used reguarly by Rootschatters? Debbie 
Definitely the hot water bottle. I always thought an electric blanket was rather a SCARY THING. I mean, you're laying on loads of wires producing ELECTRICITY for gawd's sake. One slight break in those wires could lead to...well....a shocking experience at the very least, couldn't it???
Not to mention sleeping enveloped in an electric field.
Maybe it's me and my paranoia, but I always thought this was a REALLY BAD THING. Like living next to an electricity pylon.
I got rid of my electric alarm clock for the same reason.
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meles
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Mum gave me her old glass jelly moulds, which I use for posh do's.
We're having people round for an old fashioned meal at the weekend, so I will use them for a blancmange. Remember blancmange?! 
I also use an ancient cherry stoner. Very effective, but juice sprays everywhere, and after stoning 1/2 pound of cherries, it looks as if I am a mad axe murderer, covered in blood 
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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meles
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Oh yes! I'd forgotten that blancmange animals quietly slid into road kill after 15 minutes. 
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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4kni
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I have my great aunts Neatette kitchen unit along with her old tall boy and my grandmothers tall boy, all the ideal sized pieces of furniture for the size of our house. I also have and very carefully use my grandmothers mixing bowl although I get very worried each time it gets used in case it gets dropped.
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meles
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Welcome to Rootschat 4kni - and you have reminded me - I use my grandmother's mixing bowl too!
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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kesannah
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My husband (85), my nans china Jug, nans thimble,a glass scrubbing board and myself.
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meles
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By whom?! 
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Nutty1966
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I now have my late Grandma's steel and carving knife, also I have her old metal jelly moulds  these are very small individual ones, so as children we used to eat the jelly straight from the mould, metal spoon and metal mould, my mum used to cringe at the noise
Jane
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Eilleen
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A 1916 singer sewing machine,one with a handle, it just purr's along
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Mum and Dad's dinner service, which we kids clubbed together to buy for their Silver Wedding anniversary, always comes out on special occasions. Unfortunately a serving dish has lost it's lid and I can't find a replacement. 
It is a very 1950's/1960's style In yellow and grey sylized flowers, red rose hips and black thorns.
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