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Ticket from the Transporter Bridge, Newport, S. Wales, used on 29 March 2013

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Customer loyalty card from the Balti Kitchen restaurant, Macclesfield, Cheshire, c.2010s

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Paper bag: DAVIES of MUMBLES (bakers shop in Mumbles, nr. Swansea), c. 2009

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Carlisle Cathedral (postcard I bought when I visited in the 1980s)

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Receipt from The Old Coppers Malthouse, Church Stretton, Shropshire, 26 September 2020

What a great place this was. We loved it in Alcove 2.

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Two tickets for entry to Manorbier Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 2012

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Receipt from Selale restaurant, Harringay, London, 8 November 2019

If they saw this, they would know who it was, because we always order the same thing.

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Railway ticket (void)

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Instruction manual for Atari SM124 monitor, 1988 (published 1985)

Bought in 1988 in combination with an Atari ST 1040 computer, specifically for music sequencing using C-Lab Creator. The Atari ST was a terrific machine for its time, much cheaper than the Apple Mac but just as good for music production when using software like C-Lab Notator/Creator and Steinberg Cubase. I used the Atari for about 15 years.

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Alesis Microverb instruction manual c. 1986

Digital reverb became a big thing in the 1980s (actually, too big a thing – to the point of being a fad – so that many tracks from that period are to a degree ruined by excessive reverb on everything) but it was expensive. The state-of-the-art Lexicon and AMS reverb units cost a fortune and only professional studios could afford them. Home recordists were stuck with poor quality mechanical spring reverb.

Then, around 1986, the Microverb came on the market at £249. That might seem expensive now, when free plug-ins can do just as good a job, but the comparison then was with the Lexicon and AMS units that cost thousands. Unlike those, the Microverb is not programmable, so you can’t tweak the decay time, ‘liveness’ of the ‘room’ etc. etc., but the presets are quite varied, and the quality of the reverb is excellent. I bought mine in late 1986 or 1987 and used it for many years. In fact, I still have it, but I stopped making music and all my old hardware equipment is in storage.

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Payment receipt from The Candy Box newsagent, Streatham, London, 28 March 2018

I used to go in here to pay for my mother’s newspaper deliveries.

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“4 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS” Christian leaflet, published by B. McCall Barbour, Edinburgh

Someone handed me this in the street not that long ago. The questions are:

1. What is my True Condition before God? 2. What must I do to be Saved? 3. How can I know that my Sins are Forgiven? 4. How can I know that I am a Child of God?

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Receipt from The Post & Telegraph (Wetherspoon’s pub), Brighton, 18 December 2011

I remember going to Brighton for a day trip just before Christmas in 2011. It was quite cold, and we wandered along the sea front. But I’d completely forgotten we went to this pub, although thinking about it, I vaguely remember it being near the railway station. The receipt indicates it was a Sunday, and I see that one of the meals was a Sunday roast, which was good value for money in those days but Wetherspoon’s discontinued it some years ago.

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Train ticket for journey from Whitstable, Kent, to Potters Bar, Herts, on 20 November 2018

I found this in the street but I can’t remember where. It might have been in or near Potters Bar as I often go for walks around there. I’ve been to Whitstable once, but that was many years ago.

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Napkin from Yayla restaurant (now closed), Harringay, London