Thanks - you've just got me thinking! I have a load of stuff in my loft - but am looking to move and the house I like has a flat roof and therefore no loft! Might be forced to dump a lot of it - if there is no other option...
The old gentleman that owned my present house from new used to be a teacher, a bit of a hoarder and a bit of an artist. In the loft I had to clear out more than 2 dozen drawing boards, (the type once used for technical drawing classes), with rather colourful 1970's graffiti and his year photo c1950 ish at Winchester College. The photo was one of the long ones where you get someone in the same picture twice, as was this. I've kept the photo, it has no value and I too have stored it away but for some reason I could bin it.
Yes, when my father-in-law passed away in May, me and my brother-in-law emptied my mother-in-laws loft for her, as well as the garage and it had never been cleared out since they moved in during the late 60s.
Have never seen so much sh*t, as well as antique furniture, vinyl records that we knew he had but not to the extend of numbers, amplifiers, speakers, tuners, ridiculous.
We filled 2 skips with rubbish, a whole load of stuff went to a museum and the vinyls are in the process of being sold off.
Also cleared out our loft at the end of last year ahead of our major building works as we knew we had a lot of stuff going up there temporarily.
The only thing we found from the previous owner was a box of old porn mags going back to the 80s.
Sorry Henry, the only thing of football interest is the World Cup collection which I put together in 66 which included all the players medals which were given away by garages at that time. So far I haven't come across it.
The lack of model railways on here makes me wonder if we really are a Charlton forum after all.
Tell us about your train set, Canters?
It's great. 3 full loops one half loop. 2 stations one a large 4 platform job in the main town the other a small country stop. Some serious scenery a large hill a river and pond. Lobely country farmhouse of course a cricket pitch.
The lack of model railways on here makes me wonder if we really are a Charlton forum after all.
Tell us about your train set, Canters?
It's great. 3 full loops one half loop. 2 stations one a large 4 platform job in the main town the other a small country stop. Some serious scenery a large hill a river and pond. Lobely country farmhouse of course a cricket pitch.
my aunt and uncle, after many years in their bungalow had for some reason to go into the loft for the first time .. up there was a full sized cement mixer .. to this day, that remains a mystery .. it's probably still up there, they moved some 30 years ago ((:>)
Yes, when my father-in-law passed away in May, me and my brother-in-law emptied my mother-in-laws loft for her, as well as the garage and it had never been cleared out since they moved in during the late 60s.
Have never seen so much sh*t, as well as antique furniture, vinyl records that we knew he had but not to the extend of numbers, amplifiers, speakers, tuners, ridiculous.
We filled 2 skips with rubbish, a whole load of stuff went to a museum and the vinyls are in the process of being sold off.
Also cleared out our loft at the end of last year ahead of our major building works as we knew we had a lot of stuff going up there temporarily.
The only thing we found from the previous owner was a box of old porn mags going back to the 80s.
We have lived in our house for forty years. Due to shoulder surgery I couldn’t get up to our loft any longer, so the wife decided something had to be done because it wouldn’t be fair on the kids to have to clear it out when we died. The felting was getting bad, and the doors on the floor were rotting, so to fair something had to be done. So it was decided to put a loft ladder in, along with a floor more insulation and some new Ali type stuff over the old felting, bloke who done the work, said don’t worry mate we will clear the loft. Apparently we had the most old crap he ever seen in his life, it ranged from a rusted water tank, to an Acker Bilk album, a train set, a baby walkers, carpet, wall paper, a very large wasp nest, books, wrapped but unopened Christmas presents for the kids that were to well hidden,you name it was up there.
So we had to inspect everything that was brought down, the stuff to be disposed off went in the front garden, the stuff to be kept in the front room, it only took them a whole day to clear the loft, the front garden and path was full to around six foot deep, the scrap man spent a day going through it and made three trips, and we only had three boxes in the front room, which are now residing in our splendid clear loft space, which I can now access.
There were 7 boxes in the loft and as I hadn't needed them for the last 11 years I consigned them directly to the dump, only to remember that all the photos I had taken on our honeymoon to China 24 years ago were in one of them.
Needless to say the council had already emptied the containers when I got to the rubbish site, so all is lost.
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By the clothes they looked Edwardian, maybe late Victorian so over a 100 years old now. A trip to France and views of Matching in Essex.
Not worth anything but loathe to throw them away.
They'll be appreciated by somebody - people/local history groups will want old photos of their area.
And there's a market for vintage clothes.
Or just leave them up in the loft for the next people to move in.
Turns out it's my hot water tank...
Yeah, all right, Fortune 82nd lol
In the loft I had to clear out more than 2 dozen drawing boards, (the type once used for technical drawing classes), with rather colourful 1970's graffiti and his year photo c1950 ish at Winchester College.
The photo was one of the long ones where you get someone in the same picture twice, as was this. I've kept the photo, it has no value and I too have stored it away but for some reason I could bin it.
Think I may have taken the joke too far...
I wonder if they're still there?
They are harmless to humans but you'd shit your fucking pants as soon as you saw one.
So we had to inspect everything that was brought down, the stuff to be disposed off went in the front garden, the stuff to be kept in the front room, it only took them a whole day to clear the loft, the front garden and path was full to around six foot deep, the scrap man spent a day going through it and made three trips, and we only had three boxes in the front room, which are now residing in our splendid clear loft space, which I can now access.
There were 7 boxes in the loft and as I hadn't needed them for the last 11 years I consigned them directly to the dump, only to remember that all the photos I had taken on our honeymoon to China 24 years ago were in one of them.
Needless to say the council had already emptied the containers when I got to the rubbish site, so all is lost.