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Old books

Old books
Saturday Self Challenge: Books.

We have books in our sitting room, dining room, study, 3 bedrooms, kitchen and music room, plus in a bookcase on our landing. They are mostly in large bookcases, but also on tables and the floor. There is little or no organisation of authors although dictionaries are all in the same place.

The 2 books shown here were my Dad's.He was born in 1901 and left school at the age of 14. The arithmetic book ( New Commercial Arithmetic) has his signature in it. After he left school he did an apprenticeship in watchmaking and silver-smithing, hence the second book here on Assey marks. Eventually he was an instrument maker working for the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

I wonder how many of us could calculate the price of 5438 articles @ £3, 11s, and 4 1/2d without a calculator. ;-)

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Latest comments - All (28)
 Jan
Jan
Interesting books and good to have memories. Nice to reflect. Interesting too that I wouldnt bother to try to perform the calculation by mental arithmetic but I would use excel and not even a calculator. How things change.
6 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne
An interesting picture Amelia. I have quite a lot of old books that I could not bear to part with.
6 years ago.
 christel.k
christel.k club
super Makroaufnahme, Amelia!
6 years ago.
 Ruebenkraut
Ruebenkraut club
great choice for the challenge!
6 years ago.
 raingirl
raingirl club
so cool! what a great tale. i love how more than one person has brought personal stories into the challenge of the book. a bit like photos that way, carrying on our tales.

i would love to have an Assey marks book.
6 years ago.

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