Isn't it strange how some things stick in your mind over the years?. Silly things- here's one of them.

One day when we were out with the cart collecting Jumble we did very poorly with our gatherings. In fact all we got was one pair of shoes and a broken test tube. And that was what we chanted as we roamed the streets of Wimborne knocking on doors for Jumble. "One Pair of Shoes and a Broken Test Tube" and that silly phrase has stuck with me all my life and even now it still comes into my head at the most inappropriate times.- Willy

On one occasion we had been given a shop-window dummy's head for the sale. So we placed it on a card table on the pavement outside the entrance to Church House. Then we secreted a loudspeaker near (inside?) the head and had a wire which led to a microphone upstairs. We then "entertained" the people in the queue outside, waiting for the doors to open, with our "Talking head"

Ah, I've Just remembered putting lighted matches in our mouths to entertain the crowd too. (weird)

We had some interesting material given to us during our jumble sales. Items that probably now would fetch a fortune. Some items we kept for Club use and did not put in the sale. I think that's how we came to possess the huge "Mrs. Webster's Dictionary". It must have been about six inches thick. On second thoughts it was probably just called Webster's Dictionary and we added the "Mrs." to the title.

Then there was the lovely disc musical box. Metal discs with holes punched in them which revolved over prongs to play music. There was also what could well have been an original vacuum cleaner. A hand operated gadget. A box with a sort of broom handle sticking out of the top. This handle you pushed back and forth to create the vacuum.

Can you add to this list?