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Post by goldstar31 on Jan 22, 2019 17:46:51 GMT
My son still has my slide rule which I used to prepare statistics. I still have a 'windy pick' fashioned by my father as a pinchbar. It's stamped SC which is the Stella Coal Company which was Nationalised as part of the National Coal Board on Tyneside. So it is pre-1947. Earlier still, I have still a little axe with a hammer head forged on it and this was used to dig out German incendiary bombs about 1941-2. Adding to my motley collection is an Auxiliary Fire Service helmet and service respirator and a Mickey Mouse one from my late wife- born 1938.
My RAF cap badge from 1948-50 went back onto the D-Day beaches on the sling bag of a WAAF fighter controller who took her old husband back- for probably the last time.
I still have my whale bone hairbrush and two boot brushes stamped with my service number and a photo of me in a Royal Observer Corps battle dress - complete with RAF sh1te hawks.
Norm
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stevep
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Post by stevep on Jan 23, 2019 9:31:54 GMT
Wow, Norm. Those memorabilia are going to take some beating.
Good on you.
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Post by mr swarf on Jan 26, 2019 21:17:41 GMT
Another relic in my workshop is a rather sturdy fold up table which has survived coming through the family for some reason. I think its a paste table or at least its been used as for that for as long as I can remember. It still has the remains of the label on the underneath. Mail ordered from Gamages & delivered by the good old LMS. Gamages by Mr Swarf, on Flickr Paul
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