Oldest thing in use in your house? ( Spouses don’t count)

I have a pair that of baby clogs that my mum wore… around 1932… treasured

A glass Lemon Squeezer that belonged to my Grandma. I also have a silver locket that was hers. No idea about the age of either! My Grandmother married in 1918. Not sure when she was born.

Georgian over-mantle above my fireplace. Passed down through the family since around 1800. Bit shabby now but I love the history of it.

I have a small rocking chair that was in my parents house all through my childhood. My dad used to say he could remember sitting on his grandmother’s knee in her house while she rocked him on the chair. She must have been small! DH has stripped it down and re-polished it probably for the first time in 100 years. My Dad was born in 1915 so the chair is quite a bit older than that.

Davida1968

My parents' bread-bin and bread board. The former is the old-fashioned white enamel type, with a separate lid and "bread" written on, in blue letters. I think that it may even have been my Gran's.

I’ve got the same bread bin, although I keep extra cleaning stuff in it rather than bread which goes in the fridge. I also have a forty year old very large slow cooker which is invaluable for feeding large numbers and aid be lost without it as the modern ones just don’t have the same capacity.

Kenwood chefette mixer - had it since I got engaged to my first husband when I was 18 and I’m now 64!

Does the house itself count? It's over 400 years old in places (extended 350 years ago and again in 1987!) There's a well in my kitchen (22 foot deep with 14 feet of spring water) that we found, when uncovered, had a Milkmaids yoke at the bottom, a bear claw and numerous clay pipes all around it!

My Nana's ironing board. She died in 1972. It's still in mint condition!

A Jacobean storage chest.

I make our tea every morning- measuring out the tea with a pewter tea spoon. It’s a short-handled scoop-shaped pewter ‘spoon’ with the Scarborough coat of arms forming the handle.
It takes me back to our fifties kitchen measuring the tea out of the caddy with the same spoon. The caddy had Japanese (Chinese?) ladies on it. That is long gone - I guess it got too rusty.

Rocking chair in our kitchen (with new seat cushion and throw to cover the very tatty and worn back.) Most comfy chair in the world. The woodwork is definitely showing its age! It belonged to my grandmother.

Ooh guessing some 19th century teaspoons that we inherited still use them daily

My sturdy old Singer Sewing Machine which dates back to about 1950 is one of the oldest things in our house. I have newer machines but the Singer is wonderful for heavy materials.

I have my great great grandmother's bread bowl and wash tub. 1910-1920s.

I also have my grandmothers jello mold from the 60s - 70s.

I had a breadboard belonging to my grandmother which she herself had owned for a long time. I put it in the dishwasher and it sadly disintegrated eventually. At the same time I was given a set of bone handled butter knives but they too broke (but we’re never put in a dishwasher).

Bed sheets given to my parents as a wedding present in 1957, fabulous quality which you could never buy now.

An enamel bowl (known as the blackberry picking bowl) which belonged to my great grandmother.

I have a houseplant which is at least 60 years old and another which is at least 50 years old.

Possibly the oldest thing though is our doorstop, a perfectly shaped piece of rock, dated by a geologist friend as approximately 600 million years old.

Kim19

Have just donated my Christmas tree fairy to GC. It was my lovely Mums and is 83.

Our fairy has been packed carefully away - she is only 46, a youngster.

Have just donated my Christmas tree fairy to GC. It was my lovely Mums and is 83.

The kitchen units, which we had fitted about 18 years ago. They still look good, though.

We've got some Georgian pieces of furniture that OH inherited which originally came from his great grandfather and a very pretty Georgian side table that was left to him by his godmother. Nothing from my family because they were poor! However the aga dates from 1975, we converted it from oil to gas and had it reburbished in 2005 and it's still going strong.

We tend to like Antiques and Antique furniture so recently bought ourselves a Mahogany Scottish Grandfather Clock with a picture of the " Lady of the Lake " around the clock face and still chimes on the hour. We were told it dates back to 1740 and this is the oldest piece we have..

We have a very pretty mahogany corner chair that has obviously been repaired several times and dates from about 1750.

Every week I use two solid silver serving spoons that were my grandmothers for making gravy etc. They're very battered and misshapen now, the hallmark on one reads 1780, the other one is too worn to decipher but they're exactly the same. It has always amused our children that I use solid silver cutlery in the kitchen. I also use my grandmother's rolling pins which are at least 110 years old.

I also have my GM's sewing machine, made in 1889 and given to her by her mother in 1910. It still works fine.

We also have a desk that I inherited in its original form as a parlour organ. It was left to my grandfather by his great-aunt. I couldn't bear to part with it as I remembered him playing hymns on it every Sunday evening. When we moved my husband made it into a desk as it had to earn its keep if it was going to stay in the house. I kept the keyboard intact as a decorative wall piece.

I also have lots of small items from my GPs and GGPs including a silver and mother of pearl folding fruit knife barely 2 inches long which lives on my keyring and comes in very useful sometimes.

What an interesting thread this is. I'm glad that some people like to keep things from the past.

Oooh, I’m wrong, I’ve got my great grandmother’s engagement ring from her second marriage, so that would be about 115 years old.

My grandparents wall clock, which was a wedding present to them when they got married about 105 years ago.

a vintage rappard wee peggy spinning wheel, which can spin the finest of yarn