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9fingers wrote: I don’t think AndyT or Toolsntat are members here but would be most welcome nevertheless.
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:See you found the legendary Hasluck. He was a good author.
Trevanion wrote:9fingers wrote: I don’t think AndyT or Toolsntat are members here but would be most welcome nevertheless.
I know they are watching, even if they aren't members. Once I've got them here...
Blackswanwood wrote:Not quite in the league of your collection Trevanion but I have a 1947 copy of The Woodworker ...
Doug wrote:Somewhere I have a copy of the Woodworker’s pocket book edited by Charles H Haywood, a great little book that belonged to my wife’s grandad.
Woodbloke wrote:When the college moved to Englefield Green, nr Egham some time in the fifties, I 'liberated' it from the College Library on 30th Jan 1976 when I was a student. I haven't been back to pay the fine - Rob
Malc2098 wrote: Some of the stories the students told me of life at the college would make your hair stand on end!!
Woodbloke wrote:Malc2098 wrote: Some of the stories the students told me of life at the college would make your hair stand on end!!
I've probably heard them all Malc. Heard the one about Queen Victoria's footprints in Windsor or the maggots in the girls accommodation block? -
Malc2098 wrote:But I think you should share the two you mentioned above!
Woodbloke wrote:Malc2098 wrote:
...and then of course there was Elton John who did a gig free and gratis! I missed it as I was down the pub with some mates
Mike G wrote:For some reason my dad collected the American magazine Popular Mechanic. He had hundreds of them starting just after WW2. Goodness knows what happened to them, but they had lots of good woodworking projects, as well as an inordinate number of gun rack builds.
Trevanion wrote:That is quite the collection! Are the colourful ones the Hayward series of woodworker books? I think I’ve seen them before elsewhere (probably from you actually thinking about it )
The Softwoods and Colonial Timbers book must be an interesting little book if the other ones in the series are anything to go by. I wonder how many surviving copies of the series are out there as they don’t pop up often at all!
Alasdair wrote:...they brought back may memories of having a grumpy old joiner thumping me with his walking stick when I made a mistake...
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