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Very similar bit of kit to the Lidl one but finished in stainless rather than enamel. I think Lidl have stopped selling them in the UK...

There's another blast from the past ... one of my teenage friends, Dai, worked at Crompton Parkinson in Doncaster ... he lived in a flat...

This convo just reminds me of my late great (in all terms of the word) uncle Delfryn Lloyd my paternal grandmother's brother in law who...

They are now much prized by the hand car wash people ... dig it out of the shed - £100 or so on ebay - that's a few sheets of foundation...

Ir's still going to cost a fraction of the price of a new replacment ... as long as you don't count your labour in !

I had a mangle I wanted for wax making - but found it wasn't needed. Also fairly important it is not too worn. I also had a metal...

My goodness that mangle has seen some action ! Is it electric or a handle one ... do you make flat sheets first and then press them ?

and good luck finding one these days ! Anyone below 60 won't even know what a mangle is .., let alone what it was originally used for ...

I knew Goldthorpe well ..one of my school friends lived there - mining community that has taken a long time to recover from the pit...

Better to look out for one of these on ebay/gumtree/freecycle/pre-loved ...

I used to go to Thorne to fish in the Stainforth and Keadby canal, back in the day, about 18 miles each way on my bike with my rods...

If memory serves correctly AEI took over BTH (British Thompson Houston) prior to that. There was a factory in Thorne but I don't know...

That was exactly my experience as an 11/12 year old at my grammar school in Mexborough ... we did either metalwork or woodwork and I...

Respect of machinery was drilled into me during my very first lesson in the metalwork shop. My teacher was Stan Foster who had an...

AEI was acquired by GEC in 1967 so that probably dates the lathe as earlier than that ... nothing wrong with these old machines - My...