The lay of the case

OK, here's an unashamedly self indulgent piece of nostalgia from Jo and Ian, which may (with a bit of luck and hard work) provide a diverting cultural history of the last 40 years or so.

It's the story of a typecase hanging on our wall near Cemetery Junction. The case itself came from Parnells the Printers in Reading. Over the decades it's gathered a collection of ephemera which we'll riff upon, compartment by compartment and see where it takes us.

The story will start in Barnsley around 1962 with Owzthat...