Seaside souvenirs - more cheery post I hope

I am sure that you too are fond of items that have a souvenir theme - you may be a little surprised to learn that I have one or two such things (cough, cough) and a few souvenir tablecloths (oh dear this wretched cough when will I be rid of it!). I now try and hang (cling desperately) on to only souvenir items that are local/local'ish to ourselves....fortunately/unfortunately that means quite a bit then..

I bought a few tablecloths for 20p each the other day (from a favourite shop).  Some were a bit faded and I will save the 60s daisy ones for a different post (Bronte was quite taken with those but they were 40p each so I should hope so!).  All of this led me to sort out a little pile (cough, cough) of other souvenir tablecloths and tea towels....

I might have rootled round for souvenir china....

This particular tablecloth I thought was sweet because them names of the towns are set out on a bunting design around the edges thus:

There is stain over Brighton...oh dear.....

Old seaside bunting from a while ago....this time Brighton is stain free - hurrah!

This is Blackpool - not local to myself but a lovely tablecloth so has to be kept

This is a jolly tea towel - I use my tea towels until they are threadbare and then I use them for cleaning purposes (oh but not my really, really nice London ones - they are in frames!).  My dear friend Bryony lives in Cuckfield (see below).

All of these have been bought in local shops and I like them all and the different styles.  I cannot quite remember now but I turned an old tea towel into a series of purses and I think that this is somewhere in the East of England (perhaps someone can let me know please).







Brighton crops up on quite a few of my tablecloths - this one has an unstained character

 Not too much traffico on the sea front

This tea towel of Cornwall I bought years ago and was going to sell it when I saw that Cath Kidston had the same one being sold for £29! Yikes - I have saved it for my retirement plan (let's face it I think that tea towels are probably a safer investment than stocks and shares!).

That's me at Lamorna....

 I like the graphics on this one

This one still has its label on so I cannot bring myself to use it...

I think that this bunting did indeed go to live in Cornwall

I will finish with an old Cornish tea towel - falling apart but nice images.  Just realised that I have forgotten the tablecloths that are local to where we live - I will save those for another day!

I do have one or two more (excuse me while I swig the Veno's...) tablecloths and I think that I will 'stagger' them over the months.  Dom insists that one tablecloth is enough but I say that I am building up a collection for the new 'Tablecloths through the decades - a retrospective perspective' book that I am writing...
PS: Fully realise the folly of my ways and of course everything is up for grabs on the internet - it is no different to thinking that if you cross the road you should expect to be knocked down, that if you walk round at night you should expect to get mugged, that......  Silly of me not to realise this sooner - do apologise.  I am joining the 'grab it while I can - what's yours is mine' world.....A final hurrah is that I notice Pinsect have done something strange to my account (only to request that my photographs are not used by the way!).  What a charming and delightful company they are.