Tales of Things
Where everything has its memory
Measuring Tape
Jo shares her memories of sewing at school and her measuring tape which she has kept since school.
Tales
Measuring Tape
Jo shares her memories of being a working class girl in the top stream of a "posh" girls school' convent grammar school.
Photograph is of Jo in her school uniform. Poem by Diana Hendry, titled Streams.
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Plot diagram for audio chip
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Close up of Wolfson audio chip
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Jute loom model
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Wilkie Jute Samples
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St Kilda tweed
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skteches by Sue Jane Taylor
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Wringer or Mangle
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Sinclair ZX80
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Bush TV22 Bakelite Television
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Scottish Widows Jewellery
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Motorola Mobile Phone
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1st Generation Apple iPod
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The Falls (Ian Rankin)
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100,000th Telephone in Glasgow
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Total Oil Rig Model
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AW Buchan Olive Dish 1950s
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Shetland Guising Hat
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Clothes Poles
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Presbyterian Booklet
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Charity collection box
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War Memorial
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Harold Gordon Goblets
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Dram of Whisky and Lump of Coal
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Scrapbook with Corries
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Darning needle belonging to Lily Thomson
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Dance Shoes and Dance Cards
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PVC Jacket, Eugene Reynolds of Rezillos
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Papier Mache Bust of Hamish Henderson
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Highland Dance Costume
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Diasonograph NE 4200 Ultrasound Scanner
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Tweed made by Johnstons of Elgin Louis Vuitton
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Elizabeth Perrins Wool
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Suffragettes brooch and badge
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Wilkie Jute Sample
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John Anderson Medals
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Welders Kromers Hat & Helmet
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Riveted plate
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Monart Vase c. 1924-1950
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Past President's Medal from the Chesterfield and District Caledonian Association
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Bung Starter
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Assynt Crofters
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HMS Repulse
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Democracy Tent Campaign
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Harry Potter Books
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Apprentice Certificate, Shipbuilding
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Douglas Haig and Red Poppy
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Bilston Miners Membership card
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Ravenscraig Pay Slip
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Net Gauges
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Steel splash
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Sue Jane Taylor Sketches
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Welded steel sample
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Oil Samples
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Dounreay Power Station Model
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MRI Scanner
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Highland Bagpipes
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Napier's Original Medicine Bottle
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Miners Mug
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Fish Gauges
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TB Manual
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Tom Johnston
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Glenmorangie whisky
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Singer Sewing Machine
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Mending Needles
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AIDS Campaign
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Hillman Motor Car
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Fish Boxes
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Family photographs
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Toby Stacking Dining Chairs
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Memory Quilt
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Measuring Tape
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Books
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Harris tweed sample
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Notice for cleaning of common areas in tenements
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Three columns statuette by Roy Gussow
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IBM Personal Computers
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Timorous Beasties Mood Boards
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Trainspotting Poster
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Lockerbie firearm
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Decanter from SS Politician
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Poster "The work we're doing now will help to mass produce PENICILLIN urgently needed to heal our wounded"
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Computer Games
Comments
Very moving, and very true.
Comment added by Erica on 31 Oct 2011, 11:06 p.m.
I still have the needle case you gave me for Christmas just after I started at the convent - and I still use it.
Cora
Comment added by porter on 1 Nov 2011, 9:38 a.m.