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Ahhhh just remembered did a job or my Uncle on a house in Marylebone and climbed in to the loft to come face to face with a WWII Squadron Leaders personal box.

I had something similar only it was a boarded up attic . All the memorabilia was spread on the floor as though he had done it to be found . There was a tailors dummy wearing his Squadron leaders uniform , and pictures of him in Egypt standing next to a a Sopwith Camel type plane from WWI. He had been in both wars.
He was in the Pathfinder Squadron In WWII.
It was a very moving experience.
 
Not me but where the girlfriend used to work the young ladies and interns where located on the mezzanine floor, in the summer it would get extremely hot up there as there was no aircon and the young ladies would end up woking in shorts or skirts and bikini tops, never seen workmen so keen to return especially in the summer.
 
found a old box under floorboards on a job once, was all 2 world war stuff, had old grenades in, slightly rusty, rusty gun parts etc... one of hte family vaguely recalled the grandad or uncle saying there was the emergency stuff in there from the war but nobody ever got it up.
being ex forces i took it in garden and called the plod and army took it away for safe disposal. police were not too impressed i took it out to the garden
Reminds me of a story my grandad told me. He was semi retired, ex merchant navy and and London Fire Brigade. Was working as a night watchman in Fleet Street during one of the IRA’s bombing campaigns. They had a suspect package and were in the process of cordoning things off. Thing was that it was getting near the end of the shift and time for a few beers. He could face staying on a bit longer so just picked the package up and chucked it in the Thames. :eek:
 
This is the same guy that in his mid 60s tried to shin up a flag pole cos the Union Flag was flying upside down. The strain gave him a mild heart attack but he still managed to walk half a mile up hill returning from pub. :eek:
Happy days. He used to leave my brother and I in the car with a toasted sandwich and a bottle of coke while he had few beers in the pub. Then drive us home :eek::D
 

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