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

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.

A Jacobean storage chest.

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

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!

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Making mine seem quite young ! had a free bread knife (in drawer but not used often at all ) when I had my wedding ring , also where I worked bought me a stainless steel meat tray, use it regular, still looks virtually brand new both just over 50 years old ... like I say quite young in comparison to others ... sorry

A fifties style blue and gold cocktail tray (cocktail glasses long since departed!), a silver tablespoon, a worn green wooden handled bread knife. All about 63 years old and were part of my parents wedding presents. My very own oldest item is a little plastic Santa and sleigh tree decoration my Mum gave me to amuse me when I was two and had a nasty bout of tonsillitis. He still takes pride of place at the top of my tree every year (hung with the original bit of brown wool my mother used!). I am 66 now and it is one of my most treasured possessions.

Lots of bits of cutlery which was my Grandma's, also everyday cutlery which I bought from Woolworths in 1966 when we married. We've used it much more than the fancy stuff we got as a wedding present.

I'm probably one of the youngest 'things' in my house and I'm 72 ! 🤭. Lots of antique furniture, eg. a Welsh dresser made by my great, great grandfather but my favourite is my comfy armchair, bought when my parents got married in 1949.

I have the pots and pans from when I first left home aged 18 in 1998. Ok so not as old as the serving plate, trifle dishes, a cake stand, jugs and various other bits n bobs from my great grandmother and my grandmother. Some must be over 100 years old.

A 1937 Edward the 8th silver spoon, used every day.

A table and chairs pre 1937. My parents were married in 1937 and bought a job lot of furniture with a house they initially rented.

I’ve just remembered the Toby jug collection and hundreds of cigarette cards that were my grandparents. No idea if they are worth anything or how to find out? Does anyone know?

We also have books which are from the 1830's which my ancestors had and have remained in the house throughout the generations. We have legal documents which go back to the 18th Century and Diaries for ancestors for the early 19th Century. All pretty useless (but interesting) and remain in situ because I have no idea what to do with them!

Sauce boat and stand, grandmother’s from 1909 wedding.
Jewellery she had from 1900’s

Antique lacemaking bobbins, dating to early 1800s, in regular use on various lacemaking projects.
A dressing table box of my great grandmother's (has many of my antique bobbins stored in it).
Antique Davenport desk, lovely to sit at to write greetings cards.
Breadboard, cutting knife, pretty glass cream jug depicting a cat climbing up the side as the handle - all from Mum and Dad's house.
My Dad's wind-up watch which I wear daily. He died in 2002, and he'd had it for years before that.

A teaset my grandparents got for a wedding present in 1912 and a Singer sewing machine my other grandmother got also in 1912 from a pawnbroker.

I think the three oldest items must be a clock that was a wedding present to my maternal great-grandparents who married in 1879 and a brass candlestick, plus another candlestick that holds 3 candles that likewise came from their home.

Two of my Christmas tree decorations are from their home too, but obviously I don't use them every day.

From my father's parents home, I have a writing desk that I know was a wedding present to his parents, who married in 1913 and a earthenware casserole dish with lid, that I imagine was likewise a wedding present to them, as it is of a French make that was not available in Britain then, but they lived in France until the outbreak of war in 1914, when Grandpa went into the army as a liason officer being bilingual English-French and Grannie went home to her parents in Edinburgh as she was expecting my aunt.

Recipes that my mum used and linen tablecloth that was my gran's

My mother's mixing bowls from 1956 -- yellow, green, red and blue.