What you see in a pub

[Deafoldbat]

In Norfolk for a weekend with some of DH's friends. Seem to have spent most of the time on heritage railways... In Sheringham today we had a pub lunch, and on the window sills were very vintage sewing machines. I had to go and look at them very carefully. I did wonder if  I should make an offer for one of them (not that they were for sale) at which point DH hustled me off the premises. If you're local, take a look in the Robin Hood on Station Road.

[BrendaP]

There are three  SIngers on the window sill of The Horseshoe and Castle in Cooling, Kent.  I always look at them if we go there but I've always held back from trying them to see if the handle will turn!  As VSMs go they aren't that special.

[Greybird]

There is a clothes shop in Bath that has two large windows with shelves filled from top to bottom with vintage sewing machines, mostly Singers. They have been there about 3 years and could do with a dust but it's a really nice display. I did take a photo of them but I don't know how to get it from the phone to here.

[toileandtrouble]

I can email myself from the phone, then put the picture on the desktop and play around with it.  Messy but it works.

[BrendaP]

There is a clothes shop in Bath that has two large windows with shelves filled from top to bottom with vintage sewing machines,

Is it an All Saints shop?  Thee's one of those in Bluewater with a similar display.  AFAIK they have all been damaged vandalised so that they don't sew any more.

[Greybird]

Yes @BrendaP it could well be. It's a while since I have been able to get into Bath and I don't remember. The outside is painted dark blue. I don't know if they have been vandalised though. I couldn't see any damage but I didn't go into the shop for closer inspection.

[Nevis5]

I've seen a few of those shops with whole window displays of sewing machines.  I think DH took a photo of me outside one somewhere.  We also have a coffee shop in town which has a few different machines around the place (converted pub) - and some of the tables are also old treadle tables.   I suppose it's a reasonable use of old machines but I always feel a bit sad when I see them.

[Deafoldbat]

I did restrain the impulse to turn the handles...
There was a cat-back F&R, an early Singer, and a Wilcox, all I should think around 1870-1890, (now that I'm home and can look things up easier) and a couple of others that I couldn't see a name on.

[HenriettaMaria]

My boss, who's German, doesn't believe in pension funds and invests instead in holiday flats in Lisbon.  She showed me pictures of one of her flats once and it had decorative alcoves in which she'd positioned vintage sewing machines, which you can pick up for hardly any money in the local flea markets.  It pained me that she'd screwed them down rather than done them up

Lisbon, I should add, had an earthquake in 1755 that caused a 6-foot tsunami on the north east coast of Scotland.  I suppose you pays your money and you takes your chance!