Remember when, last month, I was clearing out some household rubbish and came across this picture. Well, this weekend I continued with the task and came across this dirty battered old case …
… I opened it and found this …
… a set of tarnished silver plated fish knives and forks: but what was far more interesting than these items was the note pinned inside the lid …
… written on a scrap of paper which looked like it had been torn from some kind of ledger. It was dated 9th August 1927 and read …
“To Edie (my mother) .. With the Best of Good Wishes for your Future Happiness. From All at Walton Lodge Laundry”.
Now my mother was born in 1905 and had worked at this now famous laundry since she was fourteen and this was a wedding present from her workmates.
Here’s the happy couple …
… Don’t they look classy ? Now you know why some ‘posh’ office plonker well meaning soul thought that a newlywed laundress, from working class Brixton, and her ‘hard up’ carpenter husband needed …
… Bloody silver plated fish knives and forks !
bigjohn 
