Penny...

Our columnist fondly recalls her first experiences of the world of work – and a few mishaps!

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

I’M up at my mum’s old house, going through a trunk full of photographs. There is a biscuit tin of medals here, awarded to my grandfathers after World War I. I pull one of them out and realise it was

I thought your readers would like to see a “Friend” annual which my daughter got from a charity shop. Could one of your readers help me to work out when it was published? The adverts and illustrations

Brian Howes unearths some nostalgic collectables that might be discarded as worthless junk but actually have a value to today’s collectors. Can you estimate what each object might be worth and pick ou

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