Keesings Contemporary Archives.
This was my go-to tome, held in the school library and IIRC updated with weekly bulletins, then monthly ones, of all political events in the world. It was invaluable for a left-of-centre politics student in a grammar school to make himself unpopular with his class mates by being right. It was a bit like POBI used to be before Cameron became PM and it suddenly dawned on everyone else how incredibly shit it was to have an extreme right wing government.
I too have used microfiche - to look up ancient Grauniad articles, and, less often, local paper articles to confirm or research something or other.
It seems that Keesings is now inline and that the hard copy version ceased to be in 1988 - some 16 years after I left school. I don't remember if the college library stocked it, but then I didn't tend to get into political disagreements quite so often as teaching students in the north of England tended to be pretty left wing anyway.
A lawn mower with a starting handle, with which I used to cut the lawns at home when I was about 12 and onwards. My father bought it second hand from the Langdon Hills Cricket Club, several of whose members he knew as he taught in Langdon Hills until he retired in 1976. I think the mower dated from the 1920s. Much nicer to use than the modern pull-cord ones.
Bicycles with rod brakes in which the levers were integral parts of the handlebars.
