In keeping with the travel/holiday theme remember the days when travel was elegant, a holiday to Manly or Newcastle was the equivalent of a weekend getaway for the Sydneysider . People in those days always wanted to bring back a memento a memory from the journey. Nowadays you can walk into any marketplace and pick up a snow globe made in China but back in the good old days you would be able to get locally manufactured wares with the town inscribed on it , with an image of a famous location on the plates, cups or saucers that you could purchase in the towns gift shops. My father had an extensive collection of these, some picked up from a visit during the earlier years but many are simply sitting in antique stores and second hand stores without the shopkeepers knowing the true value of some of these items. My father had an extensive collection of these everywhere from Albany to Zeehan and places in between of course mostly NSW since we have spent all of our life living in this great state of ours. I shall have to share the many photos next time I visit. Who else is fortunate enough to have a collection of them?
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:59:18 +0000