My brother and I had a root around in the attic this morning and found some old portfolios of drawings. Some were my mother’s and some my uncle’s from their days at the Edinburgh College of Art in the sixties. We also found some portraits my mother had painted and drawn on me and my sisters probably in the late seventies and early eighties.

My mother never really attatched any importance to her work, certainly she was never precious about it. She had a couple of good exhibitions soon after she left College, she won a travelling scholarship too. She then had four kids which as good as wiped out any creative ambitions she had.

My brother and I are going to frame some up for her.

Has anyone found anything interesting or long forgotten in their attic?

Nope.

My Charlotte and the Harlots T-Shirt from 1988, slightly mouldy…

Christmas decs, suitcases, bike bag & boxes for stuff that I should probably chuck out.
About 1/2 ton of insulation, the bathroom extractor and some lights.

There’s a load of my Wife’s albums from her younger days, on vinyl, but I don’t think they are anything groundbreaking – Wham and Duran Duran is probably as sophisticated as it gets.

There’s probably some more interesting stuff in my parents’ loft.

Really like some of those pics…the train/tram sketch, the pencil dog sketches and the moody girl portraits particularly.

Yay! Cavaliers’s are great for drawing.

We moved house last year, the only thing of any interest we found in the loft was a plastic bag with some very dry and powdery weed in it (not ours)

A grappling hook 😯

A colleague found his landlady’s bulimia diary 😐

I moved out of a flat I rented a good few years ago and left a knackered Denon amp in the attic..
I missed that amp as it was a great match for my speakers and I always planned to source a replacement but never got round to it..

By a quirk of fate I moved back into the same flat some years later, and when I was putting some stuff into the attic the amp was still there.. I got it down and dried it out thoroughly for a few days.. wired it in and switched it on and it’s worked perfectly ever since..

My descendants are likely to find similar stuff to the drawings you found McMoonter although maybe not quite so charming 😳

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Err, a VHS player and a CRT TV and DVD combo. Also an old Hifi and a lot of CD’s. So basically, nothing of interest.

We were left:
A box with most copies of Private Eye from the 80s and 90s.
a Bible

When we moved into our first house, I found a pack of European naughty playing cards.

When we moved into our first house, I found a pack of European naughty playing cards.

Ah, an authentic Dutch Miracle!

Last house before i moved in with mrs wilson: doll parts. 😯

top half of an Openreach engineer

Since my mum moved from their family home (of over 40 years) I’ve gradually clearing / sorting their attic. Flip me. Retired folk, with decent income, attic space and interests (travel, music, theatre, trains) – what a combination!

An enormous – large dining room sized – train set, with lots of model trains. Letters, and deeds, photos and family history going back many decades. Journal my dad wrote when he was evacuated from Glasgow to New Zealand in 1940. Photo album from my grandfather from about 1926/7 when he did an academic exchange to New Zealand with my then 6 month old father. Sketch-graph, Etch-a-sketch. Model aircraft – Airfix – from my dad and my modelling days, cracker of 1:24 scale Spitfire & Harrier, music festival programmes dating back to 1988 or so. Books. books, more books. Some more books. It’s only a Ramsay ladder out of the attic as well which is unfortunate!!

At least 4 generations of past routers right back to a 56k modem

At-At walker and a Spectrum 128k with such classics as Altered Beast, Daily Thompsons and Commando.

When we moved into our last hpuse I found a working Atari 2600 with space invaders and other games.

The second drawing of the moody girl looks like she’s taken a bit of a beating and is about to get another fist right in the chin.

No wonder she’s a bit moody, eh…

🙂

The previous occupants of our house had a fair size (two bath tubs + water tank) hydroponics operation going on. Sadly the police had taken the interesting bits. I did have a brief moment of excitement when I found a cash box in another part of the house. It was empty, of course.

Yay! Cavaliers’s are great for drawing.

thats cos they are mostly asleep after eating or are worn out from chasing blackbirds!!!

The second drawing of the moody girl looks like she’s taken a bit of a beating and is about to get another fist right in the chin.

No wonder she’s a bit moody, eh…

This was my sister at the time, even when she was happy she was moody. I think my mother captured her dead right

No offence meant, just a comical take on the shading and arm position. I almost wrote that it reminded me of the cover to Vulgar Display Of Power but kinda glad I didn’t now…uh !

But yeah, looking at the photo she’s captured her very well, moods n all. An exciting find for you, I would imagine.

This was my sister at the time, even when she was happy she was moody. I think my mother captured her dead right

Pensive rather than moody, perhaps; that’s a lovely photo, too. Pretty girl.
That’s a great treasure trove to have, the artistry clearly runs through the family.

Well this thread set me off. Back in the summer I spent several days photographing and then throwing out tons of artwork (my own) in my folks attic. Virtually everything from ECA and before. I’ve just been looking back at some of the photos. I might get to post something tomorrow.
Also found a few treasure troves of old photos, letters and bits and pieces that gave me a bit of a nostalgia bruising.

Not my attic but my bosses. Anyway, I am grateful as it hangs above my desk at work. Stanislas Lepine.
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My mother pressganged me into her loft over christmas. I found a few old love letters and letters from friends that I had forgotten about.
Spent a couple of hours squirming with embarrassment reading them all.
Also found quite a few newspaper cuttings of me that my grandmother kept.

This thread has just reminded me, when we moved into one of our houses I checked the loft and all I found was an old picture of a ginger kid, slightly burned in one corner stuck into the loft insulation!

It was pretty creepy.

I went up into the attic and found a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt….

Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made lousy violins.

Oh… the oldies are the oldest.

RIP Tommy Cooper

First house I moved in to the previous occupants had boarded the attic out and put down a manky rug. Under the rug was a collection of ‘specialist’ european adult magazines… 😯

could this be related?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-my-daughter-is-freaking-me-out-a-bit-any-advice-please

2000AD. early 200’s to early 500’s

Mice

There was a terrible racket coming from my loft, some american country music.

Yep.

Cash in the Attic.

9/10, Happiness is you.

Mice at the moment, we have mice in our attic.

The only thing I found in an attic was an old photo print device for printing your own pics, it was soooo dusty so went to a skip. Oh and yes a dead pigeon. Our attic is full of all sorts of crap at the moment. CDs/Albums/books/cat box/suitcases/xmas decs/some family stuff.. we really should bin a l;ot of it.

We found a pentangle made from twigs tied up with string.

I’ve never touched it and proper creeps me out whenever I see it.

My old school reports, almost all of which contain the phrase ‘a bit of a dark horse’

There’s talent there. I also like the portrait of the girl looking to the right.