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  Someone had one of these WW2 incendiary bombs for sale on their stall at the car boot this morning.

  

  it reminded me how back in the 70's one of these bombs turned up in my dad's second hand furniture shop. Despite what the paper claimed it was me who saw it in a tea chest and told dad who suggested I go round the corner to tell the local newspaper offices and they sent a photographer round straight away and got one of the staff to hold it up. Only afterwards was the bomb then taken away to be blown up, dad just said "anything for publicity" lol

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  • So your dad a collector of sorts as well? That's pretty rad.garbage
  • yea but he had 2nd hand shops from 1972 - 1981, he collected old railway stuff & postcards, I posted some here a while backGardener
  • I'm guessing growing up in those shops was a dream.garbage
  • He paid me for working there at weekends in records, the stuff that came into the shops mid 70s was mindboggling, then and looking back nowGardener

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