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Anyone cleared their loft lately ?

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  • We found a box a glass plate photographs (not porn).

    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.
  • We found a box a glass plate photographs (not porn).

    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.

    Don't chuck them away, Henry.

    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.

  • 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...
  • Oggy Red said:

    We found a box a glass plate photographs (not porn).

    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.

    Don't chuck them away, Henry.

    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 throw away.


  • Yeah, all right, Fortune 82nd lol

  • Any old Charlton stuff (other than programmes post 1945, videos and fanzines, sorry) let the museum know before you bin it.
  • 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.
  • On a similar vein, when moving into a new house and the time comes to pull up the carpets, I always look at the newspapers under neath.

    Invariably, on the sports pages, Charlton have lost.

    Try underlay next time.
  • We all know porn mag is code word for model railway monthly.
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  • JohnBoyUK said:

    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.

    Otto will take the porn off you.
  • 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.
  • edited October 2017
    Oggy Red said:



    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.

    Think I may have taken the joke too far...
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
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  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
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    Is that Stuart Pearce on the right?
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
    Useless fact: he stole my column in the programme. And he's a bloody Gooner. £120 a pop that cost me.
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
    Useless fact: he stole my column in the programme. And he's a bloody Gooner. £120 a pop that cost me.
    Never really understood why we had him writing in the programme.
  • 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 ((:>)
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  • JohnBoyUK said:

    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.

    Otto will take the porn off you.
    No he won’t.
  • MrOneLung said:

    The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
    Useless fact: he stole my column in the programme. And he's a bloody Gooner. £120 a pop that cost me.
    Never really understood why we had him writing in the programme.
    It was a deal with BBC radio London. Same article in other London clubs programmes.
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
    Useless fact: he stole my column in the programme. And he's a bloody Gooner. £120 a pop that cost me.
    It was probably that that got him the Beckham book contract as well, what could have been aye Henry
  • The BBC cleared their lofty back in 1988.
    image

    Useless fact for you, he was the ghost writer for David Beckhams autobiography
    Useless fact: he stole my column in the programme. And he's a bloody Gooner. £120 a pop that cost me.
    It was probably that that got him the Beckham book contract as well, what could have been aye Henry
    Exactly.
  • I left a collection of Sounds and Melody Makers from the 70s and early 80s in a loft years ago. Always regretted it.

    I wonder if they're still there?
  • No but I emptied my basement a couple of hours ago.
  • Wouldn't be game to even go in my loft, I know for a fact there are at least two massive fucking Carpet Pythons living up there.

    They are harmless to humans but you'd shit your fucking pants as soon as you saw one.
  • We are in the process of moving so yes.

    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.
  • Any old Charlton stuff (other than programmes post 1945, videos and fanzines, sorry) let the museum know before you bin it.

    For some sad reason I kept all my old season ticket book stubs from the 1970's and the League Liner rail ticket from our game at Brighton (1974?)
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