Childhood Property

[posy57]

My parents brought a house together back in the 50s, they split and I remained living with my father. He remarried.
When I moved out, as a young man, I left a lot of my personal items there, things from childhood and teenage years, they remained stored in the loft.
My father passed and more recently my step mum passed. I am a beneficiary and my step brother is the executor.
He is not doing a great job but that’s another story,

I would like to know, do my items in the loft still belong to me? Do I have a legal right to request to collect them? As I would really like to have my stuff rather than it be chucked in a skip.
There is also photos of my children that I would like, is there a way for me to get these legally if the executor just wants to be nasty about things.

[PallasAthena]

If they belonged to you when they went into the loft then they still belong to you and you are entitled to ask the Executor to give you access to retrieve them. They aren't part of either of your parents' Estates just because they are in the loft of their house.

Best to put it writing to the Executor asap that it's your property.