Oldest household appliance in your home?

My trusty old Kenwood Chef, a wedding present in 1974. We did just once have to send it off for a repair and service, but it’s done extremely well.

It will soon be very busy making cheese straw dough and the pastry for dozens of mince pies, and a couple of hours ago made an apple crumble topping.

Likewise a Kenwood mixer bought in Autumn 1972. DD has my mother's KM, bought in the mid-1950s when we lived in Hong Kong.

A Kelvinator freezer that I bought in Australia circa 1988, still going strong & survived a move back to the UK. My Braun hand stick blender circa 1984 has just packed up but I still have my food processor.

A Morphy Richards hand held hair dryer, till a couple of years ago, from 1960. It was pink and really heavy. Sadly, it gave up the ghost

my dishwasher, he's 83 years old, his fair curly hair now grey, but can still wash dishes.

I have a Delabole slate rolling pin hat belonged to my great grandmother that was (or so the family story is told) fashioned by my great grandfather.

My father fashioned a slate board for pastry (it keeps very cold) but I no longer use it - too heavy.

Its not really an appliance, but I still have a baby's electric night light that my Mum used for me when I was a baby. The shade is a bit cracked but it still works.
I am 88 years old.

Actually, it must have been Christmas 1972, as I remember my lovely dad disliked the steeleye span version of Gaudete from December 1973 and it always seemed to be playing on my clock radio! (He’d been a catholic choir boy and it irritated him that they sang “Christos est natus” as it should have correctly been “Christos natus est”! I fear I have inherited his pedantry!)

I have my mum’s rolling pin from her bottom drawer (married in 1947), my grandma’s hand operated sewing machine (which I always preferred to the electric ones when I was doing O level needlework) and my stereo radio clock bought for my Christmas in 1973 by my dad from Dixon’s! It’s still on my side of the bed and still works.

RosieandherMaw

It’s not exactly an appliance but a wooden pepper mill I was given as an engagement present in 1968.: The matching salt was lost/abandoned many years ago.

When I moved 18 years ago there was Miele dishwasher plumbed in. I don't know how old it was then but it only conked out earlier this year.

RosieandherMaw I also have wooden pepper and salt grinders. But mine are a mere 52 years old.

I have a wooden rolling pin which belonged to my grandmother. She had a glass one which broke, during WW1, so she took down the wooden roller which held the roller towel, as a temporary measure. It has been in regular use ever since.

Bukkie

Grannypanties - The radio/clock alarm still works fine. I dread the day it stops working.

My apologies, Bukkie, I misread your entry.

I know exactly how you feel, I inherited a chiming wall clock from my mom and dad and hope it outlasts me. I think about it all the time.

MiniMoon

My Creda tumble dryer. We bought it when we had our first baby. She is almost 43.

Almost 43, born in 1983?

My oldest was born in 1983.

My Nan’s Singer sewing machine, in a figured wooden cabinet. We have the receipt for £12 10s, from 1918. My dad was born in 1919. She always promised it to me (only granddaughter!) and taught me how to use it.

My Creda tumble dryer. We bought it when we had our first baby. She is almost 43.

Mums weighing scales and weights.

Grannypanties - The radio/clock alarm still works fine. I dread the day it stops working.

My Kenwood hand held mixer that we bought as newlyweds.

I did have until last week a yoghurt maker some French friends gave me 52 years ago when we visited them with our 2 year old DD . She loved the yoghurt it made in little pots .
They gave it to us when we left . It stopped working last week but I managed to buy an identical one on eBay . It arrived two days ago and I made some lovely yogurt this morning 👏

Not really appliances, but. I have my mother’s wooden chopping board which she had as a wedding present in 1952. I also have a ladle which I bought over 50 years ago.

Moulinex liquidiser. A wedding present in 1972. Wouldn't be without it.

OK, not an appliance as such, but bought in 1979 and still used almost every day is our Casio pocket calculator. It will be a sad day when it does finally pack up.

I’ve got a Kenwood coffee grinder from the 1980s that my mum gave me. It’s very effective, better than the more modern one I had previously. I use it all the time.

I’ve still got my rather large transistor radio that I’ve had since I was 15 but I doubt if it works ( I’m going to go into the loft to check it out). I also have an amp that my ex built for our stereo ( remember when we used to actually make things like that?). Kettles don’t last very long these days, do they ?

It’s not exactly an appliance but a wooden pepper mill I was given as an engagement present in 1968.: The matching salt was lost/abandoned many years ago.