the ship matches were from a lovely round flowery tin that my dad put all his bits and bobs in from the army. there are lots of medals which i think were from his family and some were his and badges and pins and there is a nice old compass in there too. the match box is tiny weeny. you cant imagine matches being that short really. you'd burn your fingers!

this blue book is called 'home words for heart and hearth' at the bottom in little gold letters it says 'the heart has many a dwelling place but only once a home'
when i opened it it has a letter in and lots of newspaper cuttings that were my granpas, they were all of leicestershire cricket players. the book was published in 1893. woweeeeee
it has lots of stories in it, i think theyre all based around the bible. at the beginning of every chapter it has a section called 'housewives corner' it smells so old!