On a lazy, lovely sunny day pottering around Mundal, Norway’s book town I came across some magazines called Skolekringkastinga. At approx £16 a magazine there was small chance of a bulk purchase so I did something a little cheeky and photographed them in the book shops. From what I can gather they are bi-monthly educational magazines for Norwegian kids. The 1940s illustrations are my favourites.

• More Skolekringkastinga covers on my Flickr

‘Tied up in Tinsel’ by Ngaio Marsh. Cover design by George Critchard. 1973

I’ve been asked to supply some sport matchbox labels for a project, specifically Olympic ones. I’m not really into sport and I’ve not paid too much attention to these ones before. They have now sparked an interest and I think they make quite a nice collection. More Olympic matchbox labels on my Flickr.

I picked up several Know the Game books on a recent trip to the Yorkshire Dales. They are British education books giving an illustrated introduction to sports and hobbies. E.P. Publishing covered about 80 subjects, regularly updating them with new content, covers and illustrations to reflect the times.
View the full set on Flickr

A find from York carboot sale last weekend. This 1970s bunting is a wonderful souvenir of someone’s camping holidays. View all the bunting on Flickr.

I love found photographs, although sometimes a box full of jumbled up and discarded memories is a little sad. I picked up this photo album in a Berlin flee market and was happy to discover that is was the life of one lady. She had collated ‘Meine Memoiren’ starting from her birth in 1914 to old age. The album is split into two distinct halves. The first half ending on her life with a German solider in 1945 and in the second half, ‘Memoiren II’, he is gone. She does find love again, their life and travels are happy and well documented. The last entry is 1988. I am still to figure out her name (Lotti?) but with many captions and the odd letter I’m sure it is in there somewhere.

My highlights are the ski trip that ends with pictures of her posing for the camera in the hospital bed with a broken leg, her confident teenage years (she knows how to strike a pose!) and the plethora of photobooth images, displayed together they perfectly document her growing old.

My Grandfather had a postcard of Huck’s Bridge. When it came into my possession I was surprised that this small corner of Cumbria was printed on a postcard and then later even more surprised to find more of them existed (the joy of ebay).

I’m not sure where he acquired the card but he had it because of our family connection to this bridge.

The Hucks can be traced back to the 1500s in this part of eastern Westmorland (now Cumbria). Huck’s Brow and Huck’s Bridge on the A6 are a reminder of the influence they once had in this area.

Huck’s Bridge is named after the First Toll Keeper, Gerrard Huck who was Toll Keeper there in 1777. The family moved from Shap to High Borrow Bridge some time in the mid 1600s and descendants of the family have remained in the parish until the present day.

From ‘A Life by Huck’s Brow’ by Anne Hyelman..

“In 1745 they reluctantly played host to the remnants of Bonnie Prince Charles’s army, having the foresight to bury the pewter and oatmeal in the field behind. The rebels stayed one night and left the next day taking all the household footwear in exchange for the tattered remains of their own once fine shoes. The visit of the Highlanders and the burial of the pewter are well documented. Family tradition also tells that it was a devil of a job finding the buried pewter afterwards!

The bridge was built by Francis Webster in 1826.

There seemed to be a plethra of vintage poster maps in the French flea markets and second hand shops. These colourful and simple educational ones are my favourites.

First of some flea market finds from France. At Agde’s regular wednesday market I fell for these Rich Hochet comic books. I wish I could read them but the colourful action-packed covers are enough to keep me happy.