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I have some sand.........
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it held the heat for a long time!
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Interesting that sand was put in it - much more sensible than water!!
Yes, I got various sizes of frames at a really good price! :-D
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maggie ..............
it was OH's, and I had no idea what was in it apart from what he said "childhood junk"!! He did look in it several times, but never lifted that top layer!
I remember my grandparents had a tin (??steel) hot water bottle. It was filled with sand, and put into the oven to heat up before going to bed. They had one of those huge black leaded kitchen fires with the oven at one side, and a hob for the kettle that you would swing over the fire so that the kettle would boil. If you wanted to use the oven, you had to get a good fire going and then push most of it under the oven.
Grandmother cooked some great meals on that right up to when she had a major stroke in 1952.
I wondered if you had gone to IKEA :-D :-D :-D
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I couldn't have left a small brown suitcase alone for that length of time!!!
I have one on top of my wardrobe ('interior décor statement' don'cha know :-D - no - just nowhere else to put it!!)
It's got an Edwardian shawl, with very long tassels in need of untangling, a somewhat dubious tapestry fan, and a fox fur in it. It did have a 1920's hot water bottle (looks like a tin thermos), but that's now on a shelf the stairs with my 2 pottery bed warmers, and bakolite radio circa 1930.
Just realised, I've also got the dress my gran made for her wedding - a turquoise 1920's dress, with matching fagotted short waistcoat (bolero?)
I've just decided that framing as much as possible may reduce the number of boxes in the spare room - with the added bonus that the grandchildren can take it to school when they study the war - with no fear grubby fingers may 'secrete' them away!
The frames are lightweight plastic frames with acrylic 'glass' - just in case someone knocks them :-(
That'll be IKEA :-D :-D :-D
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what a fantastic hoard!
OH's mother sent a small brown suitcase along with everyhitng else that seh ahd decided OH and his sister had to have when she sold up her house about 1988. It was pretty hilarious seeing what they got vs what they would have LIKED to have.
Anyway, we got left with the brown suitcase after it had been opened and some juvenile things seen lying on the top. No investigation done, but OH's ssiter decided she didn't want it.
It sat in our basement for about 20+ years, until about 7 or 8 years ago .................
underneath the "junk" were layers of things hoarded by OH's great aunt, who had become housekeeper for her brother-in-law after his wife, her sister, had died young.
What a hoard of family photos (some named, some not), wedding cake boxes (empty), cards to go with wedding cakes, invitations, obituary cards, and all the stuff that went with being a member of a large extended family in Westmorland and Yorkshire. There were photos from the 1860s, wedding cards from the early 1900s ..... stuff right down to around 1950 when the great aunt had died
That was my treasure trove.
I hadn't thought about framing any of the "paper work" though ..... what a great idea!
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My gran died in 2003. She was a hoarder. I found Christmas and Birthday cards dating back to the 1930's. Mum took quite a bit of gran's 'stuff'.
Mum died in 2012, I ended up with this 'stuff'.
I've decided that, rather than have it hidden away in boxes, I will display what I can in frames, on the stairwell, an area that doesn't get much light.
So far I have framed 4 menus, a badge, telegram and photo of my mum and brothers on the 'HMT Empire Windrush returning from Malta in 1951.
4 'Bibby Line' menus from when we came back from Malta on the M.V. 'Devonshire' in 1961.
A selection of letters - different air -mail formats, including an air mail Christmas 'card', and an aerograph - I've got quite a few of them - sent from active service by g uncle Louis to my gran (his sister) - though I may have to remove them and type the letters up, to be kept on the back of the frame.
The latest one is a selection of domestic Wartime paperwork - a ration book, an emergency ration book, 2 different types of identity card, kerosene card, fuel registration form, fuel and lighting order (1939), clothing card, Post Office Savings card (1941), a Ministry of food Milk form (for uncle Bill born 1940) and a letter from gran's friend, following the Blitz on Southampton in December 1940 - complete with an envelope with 'Grow more - Dig for Victory' stamped on the envelope.
Still got the cards to plough through - and lots of letters from various great uncles to my Gran.
Then there are the various Insurances they had with the Oddfellows, RAOB etc, pre NHS, sickness pay and the dole, which as a part of Social history are important.
I also have the letter gran received informing her of the cost of having Uncle Bill in a maternity hospital (in reality the ex workhouse hospital gran was born in - for free!!)......and much, much more! See, gran was a REAL hoarder!! :-D :-D
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