Today the Missus and me went walkabout round the North Yorkshire market town of Selby. Famous for its huge abbey in the town centre, it also has great brick architecture and old streets.
Here's a few of the bits we saw in the charity shops there.
See anything you like?
Loads of girls' annuals from the Sixties a snip at £2 each.
I don't recall London's Burning on TV at all. This old board game was priced £10.
We visited a quiet olde worlde cafe new to us as well, in an old and rare high street department store called Wetherells. My sausage butty and pot of tea was fab. The Missus had coffee and a cherry Bakewell.
Here's the main meals menu. Anything you fancy?
This tin reminded me of how much I loved jelly creams as a kid, where milk was used instead of water to set jelly. Talk about delicious. Not had it for decades. Is it something you remember?
Boxed Bionicles were aplenty.
And there was my fave coffee jug with wooden handle. I just love it's curves.
Vintage books are always of interest. Here's Len Deighton's Billion Dollar Brain, a story unknown to me and paperback Thunderball. Do you collect OO7?
Badges and badges. What's the yellow stripe on blue one in the middle?
Do you recall Dumpy books?
This was a whole cupboard full of vintage goodness
Records always draw me in. Beatles covers are possible collectables in charities as they often turn up. This stack contained about 5 45rpm cover versions including Eine Kleine Beatlemusic from Germany. Do you collect the Beatles?
Abba cover versions are unusual and here's an LP full by Bobbs.
Hits Hits and Top of the Pops LPs are a potential collectable I've often thought of starting. Have you any?
This looked interesting. Moog!
This wall hanging would please a Dexter fan. If memory serves he was a killer surgeon. Yikes!
And finally this knock-off set ( what is that TV show?) made me think of Thunderbird 2, which is always good!
