Here’s another object from our stores.

If you were writing a label for it what would you put on it? It doesn’t have to be serious!

Comments from our followers on social media included:

“Iron. Something my Mum used to spit on before she started ironing.”

“Iron, often put in handbags to ward of unwanted advances!”

“Flat iron – these were of no use to Crawley people until the new town was built as the law forbade using them unless you lived in a flat. By the time the new town brought flats to the area, electricity had become a big thing and people bemoaned never being able to use these irons.”

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