Saturday Self Challenge: Books.

We have books in our sitting room, dining room, study, 3 bedrooms, kitchen and music room, plus in a bookcase on our landing. They are mostly in large bookcases, but also on tables and the floor. There is little or no organisation of authors although dictionaries are all in the same place.

The 2 books shown here were my Dad's.He was born in 1901 and left school at the age of 14. The arithmetic book ( New Commercial Arithmetic) has his signature in it. After he left school he did an apprenticeship in watchmaking and silver-smithing, hence the second book here on Assey marks. Eventually he was an instrument maker working for the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

I wonder how many of us could calculate the price of 5438 articles @ £3, 11s, and 4 1/2d without a calculator. ;-)