Serge & Tweed

With thanks to a keen-eyed visitor to this blog who identified one of the previous Hidden Book Treasures as a 1942-44 Haig Austerity Poppy (see said post HERE ), this little gem of a film also r...

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Highland bull keeping a watchful eye over sales in a Dumfries butchers shop

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The first of May welcomes the arrival of Beltane and a Bank Holiday weekend in England. Across the Malvern Hills this is marked by the annual custom of the Dressing of the Wells . Across th...

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On seeing this photobooth strip one was immediately put in mind of a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald called, 'Bernice Bobs her Hair'. The story, published in the Saturday Evening Post in...

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Posted from Bristol in 1932 to mark Winnie's birthday. This pale blue envelope and the card contained within it are a striking example of a small piece of British greetings card history. Wi...

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Dated October 1954. Mr Braces and his budgerigard enjoy a pint of dark ale. This curling black and white photo' was found in a dirty cardboard box keeping company with 'past their best' ...

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As you walk through Oxford University Museum of Natural History  don't forget to look up and admire the carvings which head all of those respectable marble columns. Each column is made fro...

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Passed a group of travellers the other day who had set up home in their horse box in the middle of a busy roundabout. A far cry from the jolly primness of the vintage corral set up at last ye...

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   Memories of a sweetness which made the teeth sing.  Advert uncovered in The Daily Telegraph Magazine from 18th July 1975. Can we tempt you to a Lime Candy?

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Brian & Pat Samson by Joan Eardley This week on a short trip to the Scottish borders curiosity was piqued by a rather plain, yellow poster advertising the current 'JOAN EARDLEY; A LIFE IN PA...

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Encountered this nineteenth century oil painting yesterday. It's a detailed study for a much larger painting involving a grand landscape which is all black & damnation reds, very dramatic. How...

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This is the first time a 'fit for purpose' bookmark has made it's way into the Serge & Tweed 'Hidden Book Treasure' category. Whilst it's not terribly unusual to discover a bookmark hidden with...

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A Collins Classics edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales from the late 1930's. Not anything very much to look at, infact the cloth cover is quite tatty, yet the quirky personal inscription inside and ...

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A flea market find retrieved from a dusty box of menus and football ephemera.  A GPO greetings telegram illustrated by Clifford Bayly complete with age-spotted envelope. Apologies for not ...

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A handsome slab of stone dedicated to the memory of Larkin, a cat formerly belonging to Sir Roy Strong and his wife. Resting in peace in the beautiful grounds of Sir Roy's garden at The Lask...

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In conjunction with the Museum of British Folklore , the Whitechapel Gallery in London is planning to host an archive display of the 1951, 'Black Eyes & Lemonade' exhibition, exploring Barbara...

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Friend,"I saw this and thought it might appeal to you. It's just an old box. "  Potted history of Coats Thread HERE

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 A curling photograph found in a shallow box outside a market town junk emporium.  A single snap of a family group enjoying a pleasure boat trip.  A few pictorial clues for further inves...

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A few days of watery sunshine have enticed Serge & Tweed to shake off Winter hibernation and welcome in 2013 with a bit of a face lift. Hopefully the cobweb free, sunnier disposition won't alarm ...

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From now until February 2013 you can see this vibrant exhibition of Mark Hearld's work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park . Smashing stuff...

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Fitting that this photo' should fall out of a dust-jacketed, 1963 edition of The Observer's Book of Horses and Ponies' by R.S Summerhays. Presumably the author was picked for his talent as a wr...

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From the pages of a very tatty, damp-spoiled edition of a Readers Digest Gardening Encyclopaedia, came this unexpected troop of kanagaroos.  Looking like an idealised tableaux from an early La...

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A tiny glimpse of pansy gave rise to finding this small (6cm x 6cm) cardboard treasure hiding amongst a tatty collection of stamps... 

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Mr Jesse Wilson of Chatburn station, Lancashire. Bill for one week's milk as of 7th November 1904. Found in a grubby bag of postcards. Chatburn station closed in 1962 before Mr Beeching's...

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What a joy it was to uncover this little photographic treasure. One might imagine what tall tales those smiling figures could tell! Found in a battered box of dusty pens, receipts and post...

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