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Entertainment Memory Box

The Entertainment Box is available to hire for up to three weeks at a time. £10 a week or £25 for three weeks.

Please contact [email protected] or call 01872 272205 for more information.

Object Contents:

  • Radio valve
  • Radio valve box
  • Nutcracker
  • Cigar tube
  • Tenner cigarettes
  • Woodbine cigarettes
  • Darts cigarettes
  • Players cigarettes
  • Box of chocolates
  • TV / Radio knobs
  • Temperance bottle openers
  • Lotto game
  • View master
  • Soda siphon
  • Cine camera
  • Dominos
  • Tobacco tin
  • OXO tin
  • Gramophone needle

Paper and other resources in box: 

  • Memory trunk booklet
  •  Object prompt cards
  • Dewars Whisky poster
  • Everybody’s magazine – Coronation Number
  • Punch Magazine
  • Wilson Peck receipt – piano
  • Telegraphy receiving license
  • Radio Valve guarantee
  • Chocolate ‘Black Magic’ postcard
  • Laminated photographs
  • Record – The Rocking Horse Cowboy – Russ Conway
  • Letter to grandmother from Queens’ mother on her 80th birthday
  • Life magazine
  • Cigarette cards – Famous film stars
  • Postcard for gramophone
  • Romantic birthday card
  • Telegram – competition winner