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I usually avoid it as much as possible because it is crammed full of things which we never use but can’t quite part with.

In fact, it was overflowing so badly that it would have been impossible to find anything that we might actually have needed. So, when having some time off from work while still confined to the house, we decided to sort through it all.

Much to my kids’ horror, there were scores of things in there which mean the world to Sheffielders of a certain generation or two.

Does anybody know how old these badges might be? If you know, email letters@thestar.co.uk or write to our temporary postal address, Letters, The Star, c/o The Lifestyle Centre, High Street, Beighton, Sheffield S20 1HE — Does anybody know how old these badges might be? If you know, email [email protected] or write to our temporary postal address, Letters, The Star, c/o The Lifestyle Centre, High Street, Beighton, Sheffield S20 1HE

The pieces of an old board game are carefully wrapped up in a green and white paper bag emblazoned with the Cole Brothers logo. Ah, those were the days.

They were more entertained by my old school reports.

Clearly I was always an angel, as you can imagine.

Our sorting did reveal that I am not the worst hoarder in the family but I am the one people give Sheffield things to when they are clearing out their own loft, don’t want to throw it out but don’t know what else to do with it.

So I have quite a few interesting historical items which are of absolutely no value other than the memories they stir.

Among my favourites were the badges and stickers, especially those which I don’t remember getting at all.

Who was defending Sheffield and from what? I can quite imagine the letters of response I will get to that question.

And then there were the cheap bus fares, which clearly weren’t defended enough. I’m sure we will all agree that we definitely should have kept our cheap bus fares.

I know the whole complicated story of why we didn’t, but what a sorry mess our public transport has been in since those days.

Our readers didn’t need a long investigation to tell us what they experience every day but now the cause of the problem is officially established, let’s crack on and sort it asap, please.

Back to my loft, if truth be told, there are at least a dozen boxes which I refuse to return to their original spot until we have been through them.

So, perhaps unsurprisingly, they are now piled up in the corner of my bedroom.

I’ll get around to it one day.

My dad was given ‘a round tuit’ made of metal when I was a child.

I didn’t get the joke then but it is probably in one of my boxes now.

FROM THE EDITOR: Who was defending Sheffield and from what?