Ronnie's Collections

In this blog we return to Ronnie’s Collection Notebook, home to her wonderfully odd assortment of treasures. Between the spoons, rocks, marbles and Cornish keepsakes lurked a rather unexpected fascination...bottles. Ronnie loved a tipple, naturally, but she also loved digging up old bottles from marshland and fishing them out of tips and skips. Collecting beer bottles can lead you on an exciting chase or, if you’re not careful, a full blown pub crawl disguised as “research.”

Another of Ronnie’s Lists, this one is all about bridges. It is unsure why, what, how or when Ronnie wrote this list, are they bridges she went over or saw or did these bridges just fascinate her or is there any correlation between all of these bridges?

Ronnie didn’t just collect things such as spoons, stamps and books (plus many other quirky items!) but she also collected places. This week we uncovered yet another notebook with lists of "places she seen, been or achieved"!

The art of making marbles, originally practiced in the Roman times, was revised by the Venetians

Ronnie collected many things during her life, inkwells, fountain pens and pencils were just some of the things that interested her.

Ronnie collected many things during her life, inkwells, fountain pens and pencils were just some of the things that interested her

Having been given discount tickets as a Christmas present, Chris and I waited until June 2008 to start the journeys of adventure. This is in the hope that the Welsh Highland Railway will be a complete journey by Spring 2009 and we can do the whole thing in one joined-up journey. Our first real encounter with the world of steam in The Year of Steam, was with the short track from Blaenavon to the Whistle Inn – a distance of about a mile. Not that we rode on the train, just th

Glass bottles or vessels are known to date back to around 1500BC, a few examples have been found but unfortunately not intact.