Yes it does … I bet you try to sense vibes. A bit of history really adds to the interest.
It must be hard to date some of them. Tudor? I’m quite jealous …it sounds intriguing fun.
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It’s not easy to date them entirely accurately, there is some overlap so to speak.
Sadly The PLA no longer issue permits 
Why’s that? Just too much river traffic or Health and Safety gone mad again.
I guess that they’re trying to discourage items of archeological value being removed. I still regularly see people blatantly at it though with their goodie bags.
I bet there’s some gruesome finds to be found too …
Yes, that does happen. I think there’s a room somewhere in Tower Bridge that was used as a morgue in times gone by. Bodies were washed up in that stretch of the river, something to do with the tides.
I have my great great grandfather’s old wooden perpetual desk calendar from the 1800s. It sits on my desk beside my computer.
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I’d to think long and hard on this question. I have not kept anything from my parents, there was nothing worth keeping. I’m not really into buying old things - furniture or decorations. I certainly don’t keep things when they are old, worn or broken. Most of my “old” furniture dates back to the first proper house I owned - so still less than 30 years old.
Then I thought - the house! The place I own and live in has the date 1800 over the front door.
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WAT.!! No Cheating !!
OK, The Crown Jewellery then.
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Somewhere in the house, wish I could lay my hands on it for a photo, is a Roman ladies finger ring. It’s a 2nd century “evil eye” ring. The evil eye is not meant to be sinister, just a warning to oneself that you should not do bad things. The ring was found by myself on the edge of an old Roman way in Norfolk about 15 years ago
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Clear winner (thus far) for the oldest thing
Definitely the oldest … and the kind of thing I’d be tempted to just sit and hold to see if I could sense any vibes.
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I’ve got a couple of River Severn fossils, 200 million years old, probably.
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Like the Probably 
It’s what google says, I find it hard to believe.
I was going to post pictures of some of my QV stamps to brightn up your collection, but due to issues it is a right drag, From 1840 Penny Blacks, Blues. QV Jubillee with variations, all mint and unmounted and the much sought after £5 Orange, then the later a few £1 PUC.
As you will know, Ronnie Wood is a keen philatatelist as was John Lennon and Freddie Mercury. Shame really that being multi, multi millionaires they are regarded by the ignorant to be or have been, the scum of the earth as a result, responsible for all the countries problems and the poverty of others.
For myself, I was homeless, broke, jobless and disabled, wifeless at 50 years of age, and have made what I have by using a little of the grey stuff and do not give a fxxx what others think.
We had noticed.
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The last Paragraph. Noted.
Sticky Note on the computer. Reads. “A-Void”.
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Many of the old things I own are personal things. A photograph of my Mother when she was around 8 years old – she died last year aged 99, a photo of my maternal Grandfather looking around 20 years old, a photo of me when I was around 5 years old – now in my middle 70s. Amongst the non-personal items I have is a first edition of “The Sorrows of Satan” by Marie Corelli published around 1870 various paintings dated early 1800s. I also have one of those clay pipe bowls which my husband found when he was digging the foundations of a house he was building.
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Cameras weren’t widely available in Victorian times, therefore photos were taken by professional photographer, maybe with a studio in the high street … smart or smart casual but deadly serious. I love those old images.
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