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paulr
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Toys you had when young
replied on: 3/31/2006 11:03:04 AM quote: Robert, I was in the Heanor and District Model Aero Club in the mid-fifties,all of the members used to use this shop.It was owned by Sam Luker before Wayland moved in I think late 50's early 60's. PaulR |
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Iceboy53
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Toys you had when young
replied on: 5/17/2006 1:13:58 PM i always remember it was always cold in there when you went for something,except one of those smelly parafinn heaters in the corner.but i suppose you can get addicted to anything right?. |
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Rissi
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Toys you had when young
replied on: 5/17/2006 1:58:52 PM Those were the days my friend...Whip & top..yeah..remember them well. Hula hoops..not the edible 1's...Diabalo's,..Snobs ( little chalk cubes ) we used to throw into air & catch on back of hands..then throw the 1's we caught n try to pick up the others before catching the ones we had tossed into air...(something to that affect anyway )also another version called Jacks.Walkie talkie dolls (for us girls )My uncle & grandad had a mold & lumps of lead which they would melt down & pour into the molds & make little lead soldiers for my 2 bro's. One of my bro's buried some of those soldiers @ the top of the garden. Wonder if they are still there somewhere.Meccano sets for the boys. Hmmmph....bits to pick up everywhere after they had done playing.Bunty annuals (again for the girls , though my bro's liked a read of it too ) & Hotspur annuals for the boys.They were mainly Christmas presents .Using a penknife to play "splits "...any of you remember that one?.The list goes on & on. |
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bennerley
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Toys you had when young
replied on: 1/6/2008 2:54:01 PM It must have been about 1944 Christmas - my Dad was handy at woodwork and made me a plane and a toy machine gun. He made a childs desk for a chap at work in a swap for a Hornby Clockwork Engine and supplied machine guns in swaps for a horse racing game which needed a flat 4.5volt battery which we only got years later. In 1947 our first holiday - to Blackpool -where an ex-army lad was casting Cowboy (Colt 45s) out of scrap aluminium and rivetting the two halves together with two inch nails! A Chad Valley gun which fired a stick with a sucker on the end which stuck to new paintwork better than to anything else. Whips & tops, a bowler, like a wooden hoop from a cask or something which you ran alongside and 'energised'with a short stick. A set of bright red lead soldiers and Rupert Annual. I had the only cricket bat in Cotmanhay in those days and lots of friends in Summer - In Winter they all took off to be friends of a lad with a real leather football. |
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