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What were your favourites or longed-for toys ?


Royal Mail have new stamps on sale today featuring some childhood favourite toys.

Are your favourites here ?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41007394

I loved an still love my Teddy . He (Fred cos he is a bit Fredbear) is now 61 years old and still cuddled occasionally. Other than that my soapbox cart and roller skates, I have always been an outside sort of person :-D :-D

Both OH & I still have our Teddies. Out of those shown, probably my favourite was the fuzzy felts. OH would say his was the meccano

I still have my musical box bear he comes on all my travels. My father sold my Meccano I was real mad. Still have my Hornby though part of which is running to this day at work. Trainspotting anybody?

The stamps seem to have censored toy guns, cowboys and Indians and Airfix. For a lot of young people then and now the top "toy" was a musical instrument. Collecting stamps too was a major pasttime.

We bought a crane meccano set for our son. His father & grandfather took over; he didn't get a look in :-0 :-D

Teddy bear and roller skates. :-D

I used to like those bagatelle games where you shot a marble into different chutes to score.

Books, from a young age, an old-fashioned trike and those roller skates with straps that fastened over the top of your shoe and around your ankle.

From the age of about ten, more books, a bicycle and a tennis racquet.

I never was a dolly lover like some young girls were. :-D

I remember having a pocket money priced Lady Penelope (Thunderbirds) set comprising a powder compact that had a concealed gun that shot bullets out of a discreet hole and a "lipstick" that was really a missile :-D

I kept losing the bullets and loved it so much that I would buy another set just for the bullets :-D :-D



I also really wanted the dress-up teenage dolls (Sindy, Barbie and Tressie) but alas! It was not to be:-(
So I made do with "tidying-up" my daughter's Sindy house while she was in school :-D

The most irritating toys were hula hoops, roller skates / skateboards.
For boys cheap vinyl footballs were no.1 and the plague of next door neighbours.

It seems odd now but back in the early 60s a boy of 14 could easily buy over the counter sharp knives, catapults, glues and resin, jetex Explosive, iso-alcohol, meth spirits, cross bow and arrows, air gun,. 22 rifle, shotgun. Yet extreme street violence was very rare and young drug addicts unknown.

Hold on tight to your teddy bear and his button the bears are a precious link to a time before current insanities.

I don't remember having a favourite toy. How sad is that?

Being a girl, I used to get presents like knitting or sewing sets, toy cooking things etc. and none of these appealed to me much. I always loved reading - still do - and if I was indoors I would have my head stuck in a book. But when I was a child you could go off to the park with your friends or play out in the street, so if I wasn't reading I would be playing outside.

In WW2 I was a London evacuee to Kent

Was taken in by a young married couple of 18 months who didn't have children at that time

I was 2 and half years old

I was accepted into both of the families and aunties mumand dad were also auntie and uncle

In 1943 they wanted to get me a dolls pram and managed to get a second hand one and have it repainted and recovered

They found a doll but it needed a head so they wrote to my parents in London for help
A dolls head was found and sent and was attached to the doll

Auntie was a tailoress so she made loads of dolls clothes

I remember walking into her mums house on Boxing Day and there in the front room was the pram and baby doll all dressed up
There was other pressies but I made a beeline for the pram

After I went back to london in 1946 we eventually got the pram home

When I was 12 I was persuaded I was too old for the pram and pressured to give it to my sister who was 9

I hated seeing her playing with MY pram

I've just clicked on the link

I always wanted a Space Hopper! I never had one, but I won a big ball on a bingo stall at a fair in Porthcawl on a Sunday School Outing.
It had a mesh netting on it and I would use the ball as a Space Hopper holding on to the netting.D

One day, I was playing with the ball on the beach of our village and it got took out to sea :-(

It's got to be my bicycle....freedom :-D :-D :-D :-D

Shocked you didn't burst it Jem :-D :-D :-D ;-)

I loved my dolls. I still have them

My grandaughter now says "How could you play with them they have such creepy faces they freak me out!" :-D :-D :-D

Hornby Dublo (Duchess of Atholl).
Chemistry Set.
Steam engine (heated by meths).

My Teddy :-D :-D

and

My Brothers pedal car :-D :-D

Money was short when I was a child but my paternal Grandparents were better off.

I remember my 9th birthday and I really wanted a Sindy (1966) but wouldn't have dreamed of asking my parent for it.

Mum and Dad bought me a watch, which in hindsight probably cost more than a Sindy, but I remember being ecstatic when my Grandparents came up trumps with the much wanted Sindy doll.

I expect girls now would probably turn up their noses at receiving a 'doll' for their 9th birthday.....How times have changed ;-)

Chris

Ann, I took the ball with me on holidays to my relatives house in Oxford. I left it too near the gas fire and it became egg shaped :-D

At this point I no longer needed the mesh (it was in bits by now anyway) because I could now hold on to the pointy bit :-D :-D

I had a teddy bear the same size as myself at 5years old and he had elastic at the bottom of his feet so they could be attached to mine and would dance together all day long :-D <3 <3

I also had a game called Perfection in which you had to get all the shapes in the right places in certain time..if yu didn't they all popped out so had to start again I was obcessed :-0 :-D :-D