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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 15:39 GMT (UK) »
Stoney, is there a maker's name or pattern on the base?
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 16:02 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: kooky on Wednesday 12 December 07 15:39 GMT (UK)
Stoney, is there a maker's name or pattern on the base?
Kooky

Hiya!

It just says : GLO-WHITE  Alfred Meakin, England.

One of the websites I looked at (suggested on earlier reply) had a few pictures missing - so for all I know it could be one of those! The dinner service would have been bought 1967 but I don't know if this was a contemporary design.   :-\
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 16:13 GMT (UK) »
I am still using my Nana's rolling Pin and the scales she gave me for a wedding present nearly 50 tears ago

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 16:15 GMT (UK) »
Well I'm blowed, I'm still using the scales my dear old Dad gave me for a wedding present and that is just neatly 40 years ago... They were very advanced and modern... metric and well as propper weights.
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 16:41 GMT (UK) »
Up until this year (when we broke it) I slept in my GGrandmothers bed and I still use the rest of the bedroom set now

I make gravy in my grandmothers gravy boat and use the carving knife, steel and fork that were my grandads to carve the meat (well OH does - he wont let me near sharp things lol)

I know theres a lot of other things around the house - will have to think a bit longer

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #50 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: aspin on Wednesday 12 December 07 16:13 GMT (UK)
I am still using my Nana's rolling Pin and the scales she gave me for a wedding present nearly 50 tears ago

Elizabeth 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Mmmmmmm...Elizabeth, those cakes cooling on the side look good  :)

Isn't it interesting that most of the items mentioned, are kitchen utensils?  All handed down, all well used & well loved.

Stoney, maybe you could start a new topic for 'missing crockery pieces' or soemthing.  I'm sure you're not the only one!!!

I've seen mangles covered in ivy etc in gardens...anyone still use one?  I can remember vividly helping my Mum, Gran & next door neighbour to feed the sheets through...happy days ;)

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #51 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 20:43 GMT (UK) »
A Google of Alfred Meakin turns up some interesting pages,
http://www.chinasearch.co.uk/china/meakin_gallery.php
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
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John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #52 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 21:41 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: aspin on Wednesday 12 December 07 16:13 GMT (UK)
I am still using my Nana's rolling Pin and the scales she gave me for a wedding present nearly 50 tears ago

Elizabeth 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Lol I hope thats a spelling mistake Elizabeth

Willow x
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #53 on: Wednesday 12 December 07 22:47 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: 01debbie on Wednesday 12 December 07 19:26 GMT (UK)
Quote from: aspin on Wednesday 12 December 07 16:13 GMT (UK)
I am still using my Nana's rolling Pin and the scales she gave me for a wedding present nearly 50 tears ago

Elizabeth 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Mmmmmmm...Elizabeth, those cakes cooling on the side look good  :)

Isn't it interesting that most of the items mentioned, are kitchen utensils?  All handed down, all well used & well loved.

Stoney, maybe you could start a new topic for 'missing crockery pieces' or soemthing.  I'm sure you're not the only one!!!

I've seen mangles covered in ivy etc in gardens...anyone still use one?  I can remember vividly helping my Mum, Gran & next door neighbour to feed the sheets through...happy days ;)

debbie

Mangles - yes, I remember using one of those! We didn't get a twintub until 1967 so washing was done by hand in an old metal tub with a posser! Then we used to take it in turns to feed the washing through the mangle rollers - I always used to hate feeding the first bit through!

We used to hang the washing on a pulley in the kitchen, unless it was good weather outside.

I'm not quite old enough to say that I used a flat iron (we had a Morphy Richards electric) but we did have them around, used as doorstops, I think!

We also had a couple of cobbler's lasts - my Dad always used to mend our shoes; stick-on soles with a very strong and heady (and possibly now illegal!) glue, and he used to hammer "segs" into Mum's court-shoe heels!

Coo, I'd forgotten about those lasts - they got left behind when we moved, along with the flat irons and a large stack of old 78rpm records (Goons, Stan Freeberg, Spike Jones and his City Slickers........wish I had access to them now!)

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