I enter quite a few competitions and one I entered
recently was this, run by Space-Station.co.uk:
Do you have a
special keepsake you can’t bear to throw away?
Posted on Monday,
January 08, 2018 by Space Station
From lockets to old
postcards, keepsakes can be reminders of a loved one, a special moment in our
lives or a memory we don’t want to fade.
Some items that are
passed down or collected over the years might seem unusual on the face of it,
but actually have a really special story behind them.
Do you have an
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you have had for years and cannot bear to part with?
If this sounds like
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your best photos.
We want to know the
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The best entry will
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will help you to cherish even more memories.
To enter, all you
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Upload or import a
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Give your photo a
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Enter your full name,
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winner
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I racked my brains to
think of something I had kept and remembered my fireman's cap, not exactly a
treasured memento, more a curiosity, acquired on the return journey, in an MGA
sports car, from Yugoslavia in the late sixties.
I was rather
surprised to see the competition had been mentioned in the Daily Mail!
The Austrian fireman's cap
Christine Monk, from
Derby, treasures this memento of a trip to Austria more than 40 years
ago.
'I was given it as a
souvenir, although I'm not sure if the owner knew,' she recalled.
'I was in Trebesing
after being invited to a village party to celebrate a new fire engine, and I
remember an oompah band and Austrian dancing.'
So although not precious at all, perhaps I
misunderstood the brief, I have kept it for over 40 years, in fact nearer 50!
The village dance to celebrate their new fire
engine was a lovely experience because at the time I think tourists in
Trebesing were a novelty and we were treated like celebrities.
I was also given a lovely traditional
gingerbread love token, which I also kept for a long time, not the gingerbread
but there was a message, a little mirror and ribbon to which it was attached.
I wrote about my trip through Austria in an earlier post:
https://sortoflife.blogspot.co.uk/p/holidays-in-1960s.html
I wrote about my trip through Austria in an earlier post:
https://sortoflife.blogspot.co.uk/p/holidays-in-1960s.html
