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This box contains:
• Bournville paper bag with textile handles
• Garton’s HP Tomato Ketchup paper bag with textile handles
• Barrett’s lime squash glass bottle – Early 20th Century
• Barrett’s soda syphon Circa 1890
• Twinings tin of Blue Mountain Jamaica Blend Coffee
• Pearce Duff’s Custard Powder
• Cow and Gates Farmer’s Wife Cheese paper bag with textile handles
• Hillaby’s Pontefract Cakes tin
• National Dried Milk tin Circa 1939
• Jelly mould
• Co-op stamp collecting book
• Ministry of Food ration book 1953-1954
• Bovril advert Published in 1938
• Bovril pot
• Co-op milkman metal sign
• Glass jar of Horlicks
• Haigh and Howard Brewery beermat ‘Beer is Best’
• Tea strainer
• Peak Frean’s Famous Biscuits tin
• Farmhouse Kitchen Recipe Book – Published in 1978
• J. Worthington glass milk bottle
• Weighing scale weights 1oz, 2oz, 4oz.
• Fyffes ‘the top banana’ advertisement
• Egg whisk
• ‘Fruit and Carnation: A Good Combination’ cardboard advertisement
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Glass Rowlands Macassar Oil Bottle Circa 1880’s
• Antimacassar Circa 1930’s
• Plastic comb and wallet
• Manual hair clippers
• Old Spice shaving mug
• Carola Bobby Pins Circa 1930’s
• Hair fact cards
• Doris Oldham salon photographs
• Vanity mirror and brush Circa 1930’s
• Electric shaver in brown leather pouch Circa 1930’s
• Flat Cap
• Shaving jug
• Shaving brush
• Brylcreem
• Velcro hair curlers
• Moustache cup and saucer Late 19th Century
• Dress up Judge’s wig Circa 2010
• Hair Advertisements
• Hairnet
• Blue paisley silk headscarf Circa 1960
• Crisco hair net package
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Vespa scooter booklet
• CD – Rock and Roll Masterpieces
• Beaded purse
• Sewing patterns
• Lancashire Soccer book
• Playing Cards - Circus snaps
• Playing Cards - Romany Fortune telling cards
• Playing Cards - Speed Card Game
• Playing Cards – Sum It
• Pack of 12 photographs featuring pubs, cinemas and other leisure activities
• The Gentle Art of Photography Coronet camera
• Copy of Grand Theatre Stalybridge programme
• Binoculars in case
• Dukinfield Soiree programme
• Box of dominoes
• Draughts game
• Reginald Dixon record
• Knitting pattern and knitting
• Stalybridge Athletics Club leaflet
• Vernons pools advert
• Belle Vue Zoo booklet
• 3 whist drive invitations
• Housewife magazine
• Picturegoer magazine
• Illustrated Magazine
• 60’s Swimming costume
• Swimming cap
• Airfix Spitfire model kit
• Plastic snooker triangle
• Snooker chalk
• Snooker balls
• Beer mats
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Trains 320 piece jigsaw puzzle
• Peak Forest Canal Brass Seal Early 19th Century
• Peak Forest Canal Horse Brass
• Manchester Tram – Cardboard model
• Bicycle bell
• Pitman’s book; ‘The second Book of the Lambretta’ Published in 1967
• Driving gloves
• Corgi Classics 97263 Single Deck Tram Ashton Under Lyne
• Manchester Corporation plastic tokens Early 20th Century
• Train driver’s hat
• Advert for Oldham car batteries Denton here there everywhere 1949
• The Motorcycle Magazine October 19th, 1939 No 1906 Vol 63
• 1954 Highway Code
• Tax Discs
• British Railways Passenger Train Facilities and Map A5 booklet
• 8 paper bus tickets printed by Williamson’s
• London and North Western Railway Summer Holidays advertisement for Ashton Wakes trips to Lancaster and Morecambe
• London and North Western Railway Summer Holidays advertisement for holidays to the South Coast
• Motor Fuel Ration Book Early 1940’s
• Studio photograph of people in car
• Pocket watch
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Robertson’s advertisement
• Air flight receipt
• Farm certificate
• Victoria Mill compliment slip
• Rules of operating cotton spinners and twiners
• Senior Service cigarette tin
• Glass cold bottles
• Cotton Weaver’s knotting tool
• Cotton spools
• Cotton Shuttle
• 2 x Gloves made in Denton
• Safety goggles
• High vis jacket
• Express Dairies long service letter and badge
• Barrett’s lemonade photograph
• Farm photographs
• Lion Brand Donkey Stone
• ‘Fight Low Pay’ union badge
• Nalgo Union badge
• Safety mining torch
• ‘Clocking in Clocking Out’ book of poems and photographs
• 2 x Hat brushes
• Trilby hat
• Linney hats
• Wolfenden and Co ticket
• Cotton textile exhibition hankie
• Cotton Queen hankie
• Cotton Queen district finalist 1939
• 3 Sheets of photographs featuring Tameside hat and glove makers
• Blue nylon overall
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Festival of Britain stamps
• Cine camera in box with instruction, 1960’s
• Portable radio, 1960’s
• Selection of sewing patterns 1960’s-70’s
• Practical Mechanics magazine
• Pre-decimal coins
• ‘United Review’ programme for Manchester United from 1969
• Festival of Britain Teapot
• 1950’s ‘Woman’ magazine
• 1960’s sunglasses
• 1960’s bangle
• CD – hits from the 1950’s
• CD – hits from 1961
• Tala measuring jug
• Tin to commemorate the Queen’s coronation in 1953
• 1960’s flower patterned dress
• 1960’s Flower Power jacket
• Milk recipes book
• Trex cookery book
• 1960’s caps
• Mystery object
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This box contains:
• Plastic tomato sauce dispenser
• Leg warmers
• Decimal coins1/2 pennies, 5p, 10p and 50p
• Selection of sewing patterns 1970’s
• Smash Hits magazine 1985
• No 1 Magazine 1984
• ‘Your Guide to Decimal Money’ booklet 1971
• School dinner tray
• Rubik’s cube
• Margaret Thatcher mask
• CD - Hits from the 70’s
• CD – Best of the 80’s
• Charles and Diana wedding commemorative metal tea tray
• Calculator watch
• Sony Walkman
• TV Times
• Torville and Dean Thimble
• CND mug
• Household candles
• Mystery object
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The First World War (1914-1918)
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This box contains:
- Artefacts relating to the experience of ‘Tommy Atkins’ during the War as well as the impact on broader society
- Replica uniform
- Rations
- Soap
- Original medals
- Badges
- ‘Dead Man’s Penny’
- The works of war poet Wilfred Owen
- Folder of contemporary paperwork for you to copy and use
- Letters
- Postcards
- Army paperwork
- Information, pictures, activities and music relating to the period
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Remembrance
(We Shall Remember Them!)
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This box contains:
- Artefacts relating to the teaching of ‘Remembrance’
- Modern uniform
- Veterans’ badge
- Poppy wreath
- Union flag
- Replica grave marker
- Books showing how disability has been portrayed in the past and today
- ‘Dead Man’s Penny’
- Embroidered postcards from the First World War (1914-1918)
- Music and activities relating to the topic
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National Service
(1950’s army life)
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This box contains:
- 1950s uniform
- National Serviceman’s handbook
- Currency
- Medals
- Badges
- Brush
- Button-stick
- Music of the 1950’s
- Map of the world showing where men served
- Information, pictures and activities relating to the topic
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A Soldiers’ Souvenirs
(through the ages)
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This box contains:
- Artefacts relating to the ‘Soldier as collector’ with artefacts spanning the generations
- Souvenirs from the Boer War (1899-1902)
- Souvenirs First World War (1914-18)
- Souvenirs from the Second World War (1939-45)
- Souvenirs from Iraq (2003-09)
- Chocolate box ‘from the colonies’
- 1914 Princess Mary gift box
- Paperweight with Regimental Cap Badge inside
- ‘Most Wanted’ Iraqi playing cards
- Embroideries from various periods
- Postcards
- Handkerchiefs
- Belt
- Information and activities relating to the theme
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Childhood
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This box contains:
- Yo-yo
- Marbles
- Happy Families cards
- Donkey card game
- Wooden building blocks
- Rosebud doll
- Hopscotch (9 pieces and two markers)
- Doll used for French knitting
- 4 laminated pages from Tri-ang toy catalogue, 1938
- Wooden pencil case
- School cap from Hyde Grammar School
- Science text book
- School exercise book
- Mathematics text book
- Janet and John reading book
- Ashton-under-Lyne school book
- School badge from Flowery Field School in Hyde
- Child’s Christening gown & child’s nightdress
- Baby’s hairbrush
- Two knitting patterns for baby clothes
- Washing tongs
- Wooden posser for washing clothes
- Carbolic soap
- Laminated copies of toy adverts and annuals
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Coronation
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This box contains:
- Scrap book of the Queen’s Coronation
- Programme for the Queen’s Coronation
- 3 tins with the Queen on
- Commemorative spoon in blue box
- Commemorative coin in blue box
- Commemorative coin set in presentation box
- 3 medals given out in Tameside for coronations in 1911 and 1937
- 2 Handkerchiefs
- Scarf
- Bunting
- Doll
- 5 laminated copies of adverts for radios and televisions
- 4 laminated copies of tickets to see the Coronation
- Postcard of the Queen
- Postcard of the royal balcony
- Crown for dressing up
- DVD, ‘A Queen is Crowned’
- Book, ‘The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth’
- 3 folders of photographs, activities and information
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Domestic Life
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This box contains:
- Dolly tub for washing clothes in
- Copper posser for agitating clothes in dolly tub to get dirt out
- Metal scrubbing board for scrubbing dirty clothes against
- Wicker carpet beater – rugs were hung over washing line and beaten with this to remove dust
- Clothes for pretend wash session using the items above
- Cotton apron - can be used for dressing up
- Mop cap – can be used for dressing up
- Washing tongs for picking washed clothes out of a dolly tub
- Washing line – this can be hung up across the classroom or community room
- Wooden pegs for hanging washing on the above washing line
- Old fashioned home made clothes pegs
- Flat iron – this would have been heated on the kitchen range or fire.
- Reckitt’s dolly blue for adding to washing to make white clothes white
- Lanolin soap
- Fairy soap
- Wire carpet beater
- Two household brushes
- Chamber pot
- Donkey stone for cleaning the front door step
- Bundle of replica fire wood
- Ceramic hot water bottle
- 1lb weight for weighing food on a set of scales
- Half pint measurer for buying liquids such as milk
- Pair of butter pats for shaping and forming a block of butter
- Mouli grater
- Egg holder
- Oxo tin
- Ginger beer bottle by Barrett of Ashton
- Booklet: 120 Ways with Bread
- Booklet: Bird’s Pastries and Sweets
- Booklet: Every Housewife’s Guide Book
- Booklet: Subtle Seasoning with Lea and Perrins
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Second World War - Home Front
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This box contains:
- Leaflet issued by the Government; ‘Things You Should Know if War Comes’
- Wooden rattle used by ARP Wardens to warn people about air raids
- Metal tin used for storing a gas mask in
- Bag used to carry a gas mask in
- Metal plaque for Cheshire Air Raid Wardens
- Air Raid Precautions (ARP) badge in box
- Protection of Your Home Against Air Raids booklet
- Booklet issued by the Government; Air Raid Precautions for Animals
- Aid Raid Precautions booklet; First Aid and Nursing for Gas Casualties
- Bandage
- Booklet issued by the Government advising people how to mask their windows to reduce bomb damage
- 2 Civil Defence armbands
- Booklet about different jobs available in the Civil Defence
- Women’s Voluntary Service badge
- AFS badge
- Soldier’s Service and Pay book
- Soldier’s Release book
- Prayer book presented to Bessie Benson at St Mark’s Church Dukinfield for her service with His Majesty’s forces during the Second World War
- National Service booklet
- Tin of National Dried Milk
- McDougall’s cookbook
- Food ration book
- Purse with coins used during the Second World War
- National Saving Stamp book
- Clothes ration book
- Make do and Mend booklet
- Sewing tin containing threads
- Darning mushroom used for darning clothes, socks in particular
- Leaflet issued by the Government; ‘Evacuation Why and How’
- Glass marbles
- Shrapnel
- Book, Children of the Blitz
- 2 identity cards
- Tobacco duty relief tokens
- Motor fuel ration book
- Laminated copies of leaflets, adverts and local notices
- Red, white and blue bunting to create your own VE day party
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Toys
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The box contains:
- Whip and top (replica Victorian)
- Cup and ball (replica Victorian)
- Diabolo (replica Victorian)
- Acrobatic man (replica Victorian)
- Scrap pictures – scrap booking was a popular children’s pastime in Victorian times.
- Marbles, played throughout 20th Century
- Booklet with ideas of games to play with marbles
- 4 laminated pages from Tri-ang toy catalogue, 1938
- Wooden building blocks Early- mid 20th Century
- Tri-ang train and 2 pieces of track 1950s
- Doll 1950s
- Space Family Robinson comic book 1960s
- Lexicon word game cards 1950-60s
- 2 trucks and 4 cars made by Matchbox and Corby 1970s-90s
- Boggle word game 1970s
- My Little Pony, early 1980s
- Rubik’s cube, the toy craze of 1981
- Tazos, given away with Walkers crisps and swapped by children in the school playground, 1990s
- Jessie doll from ‘Toy Story’ film,
late 1990s
- Action Man, 2000s
- Iggle Piggle soft toy from ‘In the Night Garden’ television programme, late 2000s
- Laminated copies of toy adverts and annuals
- Resource pack with time line of toys, photo pack and information
- Toys and Games book
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Victorian Schoolroom
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The box contains:
- Slates x20 Box of slate pencils for writing on slates
- Cane
- Finger stocks – would have been used to hold children’s fingers behind their backs to prevent fidgeting and to help ensure silent working
- Admissions register (blank)
- Regular attendance medal
- Copies of 3 regular attendance certificates
- Copy book (replica)
- Skipping rope
- Laminated copies of pages from
Victorian copy books
- Sampler – a modern recreation of the kind typically stitched by Victorian school girls
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Seaside - by the Seaside
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This box contains:
- 1 replica glass penny lick
- 6 seaside postcards
- 3 swimming costumes and 1 pair of trunks
- Pairs of sunglasses
- Blackpool Tower model
- Blackpool Tower brochure
- Crazy golf ticket
- Thimble
- Cuff link storage box
- Ashtray
- By coach to the Seaside mini book
- Ceramic man in bathing suit
- Bucket and spade
- Punch, Judy and Crocodile puppets
- 2 records from the Tower Ballroom
- A box of seaside smells
- A box of “seaside treasure” - shells and driftwood
- Camera
- 2 packs of cards
- 100 years of the Seaside book
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Teddy Bears
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This box contains:
- ‘Winnie the Pooh’ teddy bear
- Small brown bear called ‘Rolf’
- Black bear with leopard print tummy and paws called ‘Bruno’
- Templates of cards and fabric to show how Bruno was made
- Book, ‘Brown Paper Bear’
- Book, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Book, ‘You and Me, Little Bear’
- Book, ‘Let’s Go Home, Little Bear’
- Book, ‘Well Done, Little Bear’
- Book ‘Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?’
- Book, ‘A Sense of History; Teddy Bears’
- 7 small number counting books
- Pack of number cards with teddy bears on
- Book, Dean’s Rag
- Book; ‘The First 100 Years’
- Bag of fabric used for making bears
- Laminated words for describing teddy bears
- 3 x small plastic bears
- 10 x A3 laminated photographs of teddy bears with their stories
- 2 x A3 laminated information about history of bears
- 4x A3 laminated pictures of Dean’s bears
- 28 x A5 photographs of bears, in a folder
Brochure of Dean’s 2005 bear collection
- 2 x Merry Thought bear brochures
- 2 x bear shaped postcards
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Romans
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This box contains:
- Pair of sandals
- Roman lamp
- Wax tablet
- Coins
- 2 bracelets
- Mortaria mixing bowl
- Photo pack
- Child’s Gladiator outfit
- Child’s Roman dress
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This box contains:
- ISLAMIC ARTEFACTS -including The Koran, prayer beads, compass, tape (call to prayer), Eid greetings cars, Prayer Mat
- HINDU ARTEFACTS - including Ha Garland, Manjira Cymbals, Mehndi pattern book, Clay Diva Lamps
- CHRISTIAN ARTEFACTS -including Bible, Cross, Advent Candle, Christmas Cards
- JEWISH ARTEFACTS -including Prayer Shawl, Kippah -skull cap, Chanukah Lamp, Scroll and cloth case
- CHINESE NEW YEAR ARTEFACTS - including Chinese lantern, Chinese Dragon, Chopsticks, Chinese Astrological Chart, wind-chimer
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