Stuff found/taken from your new house
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Parents bought a house from a Flt. Lt. in the RAF back in the 1980s, exploring the garage loft (as teenage boys do) I found a massive stash of large format 'Restricted' aerial reconnaissance photos, mostly of what appear to be army exercises but also the odd one of the Acropolis, other aircraft, the pyramids etc.
Also a couple of RAF survival rafts and some rations in pouches, we used to use the rafts at the seaside.
I still have the photos somewhere, I'll get round to scanning them in one day.
Also a couple of RAF survival rafts and some rations in pouches, we used to use the rafts at the seaside.
I still have the photos somewhere, I'll get round to scanning them in one day.
Been up in the attic yesterday to have a proper nosey around before the British gas insulation guy comes round and found this. Only lived here 6 months and didn't notice this on my previous excursion up there.
Shame the handle is broken, no idea if it would have been worth anything? Looks purely decorative, pewter handle, not sharp.
Pretty cool find none the less
Shame the handle is broken, no idea if it would have been worth anything? Looks purely decorative, pewter handle, not sharp.
Pretty cool find none the less
I grew up in an amazing house with a rabbit warren of (quite spooky) attic rooms - my brother and I took turns to lure each other in on some pretext and then trap the unwitting foolish one in.
In two or three of these there were old tea-crates filled with newspaper, wrapping numerous tiny boxes of shells from India, Sri Lanka, Australia, West Indies, USA and South Africa... each box would contain the most exotic shell, protected in wadding carefully and beautifully labelled with the full latin name. There were also butterflies, starfish, pressed flowers and plants... my best find though was a jar of pickled snakes.
In two or three of these there were old tea-crates filled with newspaper, wrapping numerous tiny boxes of shells from India, Sri Lanka, Australia, West Indies, USA and South Africa... each box would contain the most exotic shell, protected in wadding carefully and beautifully labelled with the full latin name. There were also butterflies, starfish, pressed flowers and plants... my best find though was a jar of pickled snakes.
That sword is cool, you should try and find out more about it.
I found a German WWII Soldbuch and a small selection of German currency dated from 1920 to 1923, hidden under insulation and wrapped in a newspaper from the 60's.
I posted on here a couple of years ago about it but the usual naysayers presented their unqualified opinions that it was all fake.
Anyway, I had it assessed and was told that it's all genuine. The Soldbuch is actually blank which I thought was odd. I was told that after the Nazi's has surrendered, allied troops took some articles as memorabilia and this included unissued soldbuch's.
I found a German WWII Soldbuch and a small selection of German currency dated from 1920 to 1923, hidden under insulation and wrapped in a newspaper from the 60's.
I posted on here a couple of years ago about it but the usual naysayers presented their unqualified opinions that it was all fake.
Anyway, I had it assessed and was told that it's all genuine. The Soldbuch is actually blank which I thought was odd. I was told that after the Nazi's has surrendered, allied troops took some articles as memorabilia and this included unissued soldbuch's.
Craikeybaby said:
We bought my girlfriends late grandfather's house, which the MIL had grown up in, so despite the in laws having cleared out a lot of stuff there were still rooms full of stuff that "couldn't be thrown out", but wasn't important enough for them to actually take home.
It has taken us the best part of two years to get to the point where all of the stuff we don't want to keep has gone.
haha, i was in a very similar situationIt has taken us the best part of two years to get to the point where all of the stuff we don't want to keep has gone.
Get all huffy when you've given some stuff to charity, but they never wanted it in their house
samdale said:
Been up in the attic yesterday to have a proper nosey around before the British gas insulation guy comes round and found this. Only lived here 6 months and didn't notice this on my previous excursion up there.
Shame the handle is broken, no idea if it would have been worth anything? Looks purely decorative, pewter handle, not sharp.
Pretty cool find none the less
Toledo used to be a centre of sword-making. There are tens of souvenir shops selling this sort of stuff. Prob a souvenir from the 60's/70's.Shame the handle is broken, no idea if it would have been worth anything? Looks purely decorative, pewter handle, not sharp.
Pretty cool find none the less
We found the following in the loft of our house:
- A pair of crutches
- A variety of kids toys including one of those baby gym things and a trike with a long handle
- An empty jerry can
- Various tins of paint
- Some photos of the previous incumbents
- An OEM cassette player for a Skoda Fabia
- A frame for a pushchair
Elsewhere in the house we found the names of previous occupants written beneath the wallpaper as well as an excellent drawing of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit.
Our boss at work rents out some flats and had a report of a water leak one Christmas time. The waste pipework from the top flat runs under the floor then down through the flat beneath by way of a boxing. To save ripping all the floor up unnecessarily they first took out the access panel to the boxing beneath and tried to reach up into the floor void to find the problem. Feeling around blindly, the plumber announced that he could feel something odd - he took hold of it and withdrew his hand only to find himself holding a very old and retro looking marital aid.
I gather the look on his face was priceless.
- A pair of crutches
- A variety of kids toys including one of those baby gym things and a trike with a long handle
- An empty jerry can
- Various tins of paint
- Some photos of the previous incumbents
- An OEM cassette player for a Skoda Fabia
- A frame for a pushchair
Elsewhere in the house we found the names of previous occupants written beneath the wallpaper as well as an excellent drawing of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit.
Our boss at work rents out some flats and had a report of a water leak one Christmas time. The waste pipework from the top flat runs under the floor then down through the flat beneath by way of a boxing. To save ripping all the floor up unnecessarily they first took out the access panel to the boxing beneath and tried to reach up into the floor void to find the problem. Feeling around blindly, the plumber announced that he could feel something odd - he took hold of it and withdrew his hand only to find himself holding a very old and retro looking marital aid.
I gather the look on his face was priceless.
My flat: in the attic were various bits of Mk3 Ford Cortina, and some junk.
My current house: a bottle of Chateau la Fleur Petrus 2007 (that I unwittingly drank without realising what it was), spare lightbulbs and paint for the walls (useful), a kitchen dresser unit and kitchen table and chairs.
My current house: a bottle of Chateau la Fleur Petrus 2007 (that I unwittingly drank without realising what it was), spare lightbulbs and paint for the walls (useful), a kitchen dresser unit and kitchen table and chairs.
Rewiring houses all my days, and crawling around attics we found some interesting stuff, usually dead stuff and porn.
Doing one real smelly scummy council house, the tenants were being particularly unkind to us. Especially the 15 year old lad of the family.
Just so happens, when lifting floorboards in his room later, we found his little porn stash. We left it on his window ledge for his mum to find.
My work mate found 1.5k under a carpet the tennant knew nothing about, he handed it back to her.. she gave him nothing.
We did find an autograph book once with autographs from people like John Lennon, Sir Matt Busby and a load of other footballers really famous people.
The new owner knew nothing about it as she has literally moved in that day...I had originally planned on keeping it but one of our guys blurted it out to the customer, I had no option but to give it to her.
No idea if the signatures were real or not but some interesting names in there.
Doing one real smelly scummy council house, the tenants were being particularly unkind to us. Especially the 15 year old lad of the family.
Just so happens, when lifting floorboards in his room later, we found his little porn stash. We left it on his window ledge for his mum to find.
My work mate found 1.5k under a carpet the tennant knew nothing about, he handed it back to her.. she gave him nothing.
We did find an autograph book once with autographs from people like John Lennon, Sir Matt Busby and a load of other footballers really famous people.
The new owner knew nothing about it as she has literally moved in that day...I had originally planned on keeping it but one of our guys blurted it out to the customer, I had no option but to give it to her.
No idea if the signatures were real or not but some interesting names in there.
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