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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]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.[/quote]
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bennerley

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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