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Free: Loud speaker system (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 5d - Pair of Aiwa speakers, “ Front surround” “4 Way Bass Reflex Speaker System”: each black unit seems to have 4-5 speakers in it. Main speaker: power 50W, impedance 20 ohms Surround speaker: 20W, 16 ohms Model SX- FN636 MDF/ chipboard casing slightly chipped but that could easily be disguised with black paint (or even shoe polish!)

Free: Marble pastry board (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 8d - Marble slab 18x12x0.5 inches (46x30.5x1.5 cm), good condition (only minor chips of edges) except the 4 rubber feet which were stuck on the bottom are missing. Quite heavy for a board, but nicely cool for rolling pastry

Request: China from M&S Yellow Rose collection (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Received 15d - In the mid to late 1990s, Marks & Spencer sold “fine porcelain“ in various ranges, including “yellow rose“ (pictured). I’m looking for spare items, especially dinner plates, please

Free: Wine Glasses (Northwood Golf Course HA6) 23d - All in good condition. 4 larger glasses (the right hand glass in the photo), and one smaller glass – despite what may appear from the photo, the larger glass holds more twice, the volume of wine as the smaller!

Free: Kitchen crockery set (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Withdrawn 23d - Well, really, it’s a part set of Royal Winton “Tradition” hand-decorated ‘spongeware’. Comprises six dinner, plates, eight side plates, two small bowls, four large bowls. Good condition; few if any chips

Free: Wardrobe- Self-assembly (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 27d - 185cm high, 100cm wide, MDF with pine veneer/effect. High level full width shelf and full width hanging space underneath. One or two chips from taking apart but these should not show when re-assembled, hanging rail slightly bent. Screws, panel pins and other fixings included

Request: Clothes rail - adjustable height (Berry Lane Estate WD3) Withdrawn 33d - Strong clothes rail with/without castors/wheels, but must be 140cm or less (or height adjustable) Request: Avventura BBC Italian books (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 266d - I’m looking for the books to accompany the BBC’s level one Italian course from the 1970s, please

Free: Files / folders (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 339d - Range of lever arch and loose leaf folders/ files and magazine holders - most branded and mostly in very good condition. Take some or all - as the photo shows, there are a lot!

Free: Shower pump (unused) for power shower (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 350d - As new “Right pump” model RSP 50 from Salamander pumps, specifically made for showers. Twin 1.5 bar pressure (at max). Never used. Includes installation guide.

Free: Chest of drawers (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 350d - Wooden chest with 3 full width drawers and two smaller top drawers. 110cm wide, 51cm from to back, 101cm wide. Drawer depths 23.5-19.5 cm. Some dodged a bit worn - but perfectly usable without restoration

Free: Gate-leg table (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 350d - Oak, oval, needs some TLC - combination of sanding, staining, waxing and/or polishing - or painting if that’s your preference. 151cm x 105cm, 72cm high. When side flaps are lowered the size is 53 x 105cm

Free: Wardrobe (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 350d - Self- assembly type. Pine and pine effect. Probably needs part dis-assembly to move satisfactorily. 100cm wide x 185cm high x 52cm

Free: Cycle touring books (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 350d - Two cycle touring books by well-known cycling authors, Rob Hunter and Nicholas Crane: Cycle Touring in France, and Cycling in Europe. Mid-1980s addition to details out of date but still full of good ideas and tips

Free: Books and songs on Cassette (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 350d - Three double set cassettes of audiobooks: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas, Carol, Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Wanderings of Odysseus, George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Plus 2 music cassettes: great love songs, sung by Plácido Domingo; music from the soundtrack to the 1986 film “Sid & Nancy“ about Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

Free: Joint-master sawing jig (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 364d - Copydex Joint-master Mark II Sawing Jig. Great for both 90° and 45° cuts. Was a present about 30 years ago, never used.

Free: Lettering stencils with writing instrument (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 364d - Normografo brand Italian lettering sets - originally purchased late 1960s and hardly used - the writing instrument not at all (needs liquid ink). Normografo is a well established brand in the field of technical drawing

Free: SureStop remote water switch (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - “ easy way to turn off water“. Doesn’t use tap or electricity. Installation instructions included. listed features include: unaffected by limescale, remote, operation, immediate shut off. Although packaging states 15 year guarantee, I’ve probably had the unopened package in my garage for at least five years!

Free: Original Les Mis programme (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Gifted 1y - Programme from the original London, production of Les Miserables musical, at the Barbican – opened October 1985. In reasonable condition, but may not be good enough to have real value

Free: Clock radio (old) (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Morphy, Richards, alarm clock, radio, model, CR 340. Can operate with mains or 9V battery. Radio bands, FM and long and medium wave, but sound quality, reminiscent of 1970s transistor radio. Alarm can be set for radio to come on or a buzzer. Snooze function

Free: Shoe horn (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Plastic

Free: Crimson circular lampshade (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Crimson exterior, shiny gold-effect on the inside, black metal spokes, holding the circle fitting for attaching to the lamp. MADE brand. Approximately 18 inches diameter (45cm), 8 inches high (29cm). It’s just as wide (in diameter) top and bottom.

Free: Rugby boots studs (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - 12 short studs, so enough for a pair of boots based on a six stud configuration. A bit worn but you can still make out the brand insignia on the bottom. 12 mm studs, so at the short end of the spectrum

Free: Organ music CD and DVD (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - 2 Disc pack entitled “towards a modernist organ, of David Butterworth playing three organs in Nottingham – Saint Mary’s Parish Church, Wollaton Hall, and Albert Hall, with additional DVD tracks recorded at the German Lutheran Church, and Halam Court. CD running time 66 minutes, DVD running time 101 minutes including 15 minute film, “towards a modernist organ“. 2011. “ Nottingham hosts a fine collection of organs of richly diverse character. This DVD showcases five of the city’s best instruments.… David Butterworth performs a compelling programme of music” that includes modern Danish pieces, works by Parry, Ireland, Hakim, Gibbons, Tomkins, Stanley, Bach, Buxtehude , Walther

Free: Floor shine and carpet cleaner (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Two 500 mL bottles of Johnson wax Klear, brilliant floor shine and one, partly used old 400ml bottle of Vanish carpet shampoo

Free: Clip-in picture frame (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - 12x16.75 inches, 30.5x42.75cm; metal frame with hardboard back held in by spring- clips; hooks on back of hardboard so can hang portrait or landscape orientation; no glass or mount,

Free: Bum sled/slider (kid size) (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Red

Free: Baking tin (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Round baking tin, 21 cm (8 1/4 inches) diameter, 8 1/4 cm (3 1/4 inches) inside depth. It might’ve been nonstick originally, I’m not sure it is now. Removable bottom is slightly warped, but fits and works fine.

Free: Unopened, unused picture face masks (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Two facemasks from fine art America with famous polar paintings - perfect to wear on board on your next polar cruise 😀 1/ Terra Nova, painted by Vincent Alexander Booth 2/ A very Gallant gentleman, painted by John Charles Dollman - painting about Laurence Oates, one of Captain Scott’s team, who famously sacrificed his own life by walking out into a blizzard in Antarctica, saying “I may be a little while”, in order to improve the chances of survival of his colleagues

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Free: Clip board (Northwood Golf Course HA6) Expired 1y - Pink translucent clip board 32cmx23cm. There’s a 10.5 inch ruler down one side, and a guide rail/edge