Oooh I found a treasure in a car boot sale today...

[manonros]

I am a sucker for anything handwritten and old from charity shops or car boot sales, and when I saw an old hardback with handwritten recipe books and knitting patterns, I snapped it up for fifty pence.

However, on closer inspection, the cover reads- 'ROLL OF ANTI-GAS WORKERS, DIRECTED FOR TRAINING BY MINISTRY OF LABOUR.'

Inside are handwritten charts, with names, addresses, National Identity Cert. Numbers, and a record of training attendence, starting in late July 1943 and through to December 1944. Most atendees were women, but there were some men. The city is not named, but after some crafty googling I've found that it's Liverpool.

Don't know why I'm posting, really, I was just excited. 

[fifer1947]

Ooooooooooo any Carsons in it? 

[manonros]

Afraid not.

[fifer1947]

Didn't think there would be but ever the optimist!    Thank you for looking! 

[RedMystic]

What a great find - and someday, some one is going to be soooo happy that it didn't hit the trash dump.

TX for sharing the excitement. 

Wouldn't it be fun to hear about the strange things people have found accidentally that would otherwise have been lost forever?

[millymcb]

What an excellent find...there is so little information on civil defence/home front workers - and women in particular. Well done.

Milly

[manonros]

I don't really deserve the "well done"- I was thinking of my stomach when I saw the recipes in the back! But I am really pleased I have it now, I only hope I can think of a way to make it useful for someone...

I have found some wonderful things in this particular car boot sale- A few months ago I found a handwritten beautiful birthday book from 1876, with lots of family birth and death dates in it. I know it'll be a treasure to someone, it's just a matter of finding that person!

Meanwhile, I am the guardian of other people's treasures 

[Steve G]

a handwritten beautiful birthday book from 1876, with lots of family birth and death dates in it.

Isn't that what they call a " Family Bible " ?

I'd come across mention of them before and simply assumed they were a big old copy of 'The Bible' which was handed down through the family and in which people made notes of births and such.

 I really should slide off to Google and try to gain a better understanding of all that 

[youngtug]

The Bible had a large section at the back of blank pages used for recording the family birth's, baptism's, marriages and deaths. If you are lucky enough to have one in your family . I remember my mothers parents had one, my mother threw it out