I had a bit of a haul at the Sunday Antique Market. I really didn’t mean to go. I picked Boy the Elder up from Scout Camp, went to church then remembered that I needed something from Sainsbury’s that I’d forgotten on Saturday. Then I remembered that Smog needed a new flea collar and she will only wear yellow which means getting one from Wilkinson’s which is right next to the market. Rats. Before I knew it, I had cruised in like a rooster and was contentedly browsing the stalls.
Now I happened to have, in the car, an inoffensive, mass-produced Japanese tea set that I had been given some time ago. I have been attempting to downsize in view of the diminished proportions of WH HQ and I remembered that I had forgotten to take it in on Friday. I fished it out and managed to persuade a feeble-minded trader to take it off my hands. I only got beer money but I did then feel justified in doing another circuit of the hall.
One stall, quite uncharacteristically, had a load of magazines and ephemera onto which I swooped vampire-like. This is what I bought:
- A 1951 ‘Woman’s Own’ magazine – slightly tatty but containing a three-page section on producing a first Sunday lunch for a new bride
- A wartime ‘Needlewoman and Needlecraft’ magazine which still had two transfer embroidery patterns in it
- A Red Cross ’Junior Nursing Manual’ which has convinced me that children should stop learning PSHE and Citizenship and should be doing First Aid instead.
I also bought two Staffordshire china cups and saucers with violets on which will necessitate the purchase of a little purple or yellow teapot so I can be all elegant and co-ordinated and that.
All of this led me to rummage through my (badly arranged) collection of pamphlets and I rediscovered my 1930s ‘Hints for Home Sewing’ and a wartime Ministry of Food ‘ABC of Cookery’.
You will be glad to know that I will be sharing the contents of these with you.
But I will do it gradually so you don’t get the vapours.
That is a great stash – I love reading old magazines, and I envy you with your ‘ABC of Cookery’. I once decided to collect the wartime cookery books, but only got as far as buying the ‘Stork Wartime Cookery Book’.
I’m looking forward to the first installment!
Not quite the same as vintage I know but you can get a reprint of the ABC Cookery book from the IWM -I’ve got one.
Lovely looking haul WH 😉
Pingback: Six of the Best 75
I would love to have a read of that old copy of ‘Woman’s Own’.
What a haul, WH. Warming up the scanner now.