Yes I had a brown Globetrotter case. It was the only one in the shop that fitted the dimensions listed by CH, my parents couldn't really afford it but wanted everything just right for me. The salesman said that I would be using it for my honeymoon and long after - I did too! It went as air freight many a time, can't think how many miles it must have travelled!
My brother painted my initials on it before I started at CH so for much of its life it has had the wrong third initial!
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My father took me to the shop at Charing Cross (I think) where items that had been unclaimed from trains were sold & we got a perfectly serviceable 26" (as stipulated in the LIST) suitcase there. I used it for uni., then my mother stored clothes in it. When she died, my brother and I found not only old newspaper cuttings about my elopement in 1963, but also the fan-pics I'd stuck to the inside of the lid! (Cringe....) 
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It sounds like there's a story there...... tell us more !!anniexf wrote:My father took me to the shop at Charing Cross (I think) where items that had been unclaimed from trains were sold & we got a perfectly serviceable 26" (as stipulated in the LIST) suitcase there. I used it for uni., then my mother stored clothes in it. When she died, my brother and I found not only old newspaper cuttings about my elopement in 1963, but also the fan-pics I'd stuck to the inside of the lid! (Cringe....)
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You'd really have to twist my arm - it's all very embarrassingJo wrote:
It sounds like there's a story there...... tell us more !!
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Twisting... twisting... (but not the night away) twisting your arm, Ann! Please tell? 
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Somehow I got hold of and used a thick leather trunk. The stickers indicated trips to China, to India and elsewhere. I couldn't even life the thing. !anniexf wrote:My father took me to the shop at Charing Cross (I think) where items that had been unclaimed from trains were sold & we got a perfectly serviceable 26" (as stipulated in the LIST) suitcase there.
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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I'm twisting your arm too Ann
Give us the gossip!
Give us the gossip!
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moi, alsoReallyMissingHer wrote:I'm twisting your arm too Ann
Give us the gossip!
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Consider your arm well and truly twisted!
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Oh dear. Should I start a new thread, e.g. Daft things I did in my youth, or The luxury of hindsight?
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Come on Ann, we could all do with a good story. Pleeeeease!
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That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm sure we could all contribute....... but you need to start us offanniexf wrote:Oh dear. Should I start a new thread, e.g. Daft things I did in my youth, or The luxury of hindsight?
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Just realise that it was one of many experiences which rounded you out as a person. You wouldn't be the anniexf we all know if you hadn't done it.anniexf wrote:Oh dear. Should I start a new thread, e.g. Daft things I did in my youth, or The luxury of hindsight?
It was a lesson you might or might not repeat!!!
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Before the anxiosly- awaited Anniext Saga --
I have an Iron-Bound Trunk, emblazond with both my Uncle's Insignia and rank, and mine.
It weighs about a hundredweight EMPTY, and was designed to travel the World, with it's contents in safety.
A cargo net -- unloading from a Troopship in Tripoli -- broke, and everyones belongings were strewn along the Quayside, and into the Harbour.
This Trunk -- constructed of Teak, landed on one corner -- and thumped flat with the only damage -- visible to this day-- of a dented iron corner -- I TRIED not to look smug !
I have an Iron-Bound Trunk, emblazond with both my Uncle's Insignia and rank, and mine.
It weighs about a hundredweight EMPTY, and was designed to travel the World, with it's contents in safety.
A cargo net -- unloading from a Troopship in Tripoli -- broke, and everyones belongings were strewn along the Quayside, and into the Harbour.
This Trunk -- constructed of Teak, landed on one corner -- and thumped flat with the only damage -- visible to this day-- of a dented iron corner -- I TRIED not to look smug !
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Hi Jade -
Yes, I was a bit astonished too tho at least it provides a way to keep track of stuff - if I didn't get the chance to audit everyhting three times a year I'm sure most of it would be wrecked/lost!
Could you try to find a nearby parent/family with whom you could share a lift in return for a contribution to the petrol? You could ask here or on the "other" parents forum..? I come from the Newbury area if that helps....
Yes, I was a bit astonished too tho at least it provides a way to keep track of stuff - if I didn't get the chance to audit everyhting three times a year I'm sure most of it would be wrecked/lost!
Could you try to find a nearby parent/family with whom you could share a lift in return for a contribution to the petrol? You could ask here or on the "other" parents forum..? I come from the Newbury area if that helps....