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Model animals for farms, zoos or circuses were always a part of childhood for me. Most toy shops had model sheep, cows, crocodiles or was it an aligator, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, pelicans and so on. Everyone needed a lion as he was king and nobody wanted the pigs and there was always one model that ...
Now much saliva do you have on your tongue - why? Because we have 10 books of Green Shield Stamps to fill up in the drawer and we need to get nan a present! All sound familiar? Well if you grew up in the 60's or 70s you may remember the Green Shield Stamps. Popular in ...
In 1966 these Zoo-it-Yourself set of plastic animals were released onto the teeth of ever toddler. They were a hit! Bright and colourful, cheery and adaptable we had loads of fun and what's more they were so indestructable that they remain in your toy box forever (well until you decide to throw them out). The Animals ...
Water beakers made the water taste horrible!. There were always just one or two special gold beakers that every kid squabbled over and the rest were stuck with metallic blue or red. In those days 8 sat at a square table and the chairs were so small, (I guess that's because we were that small) two ...
Anyone else remember having school milk? I remember in nursery and thereafter for some years having these very small bottles of milk every morning at school. They could of been no more than a third of a pint. Good kids were milk monitors - what was it like to be one? No idea! Some kid had a ...
Who remembers the Wombles plastic figures in the 1970's? The Wombles were on our sets for the decade and I remember a trip down the post office each week to pick up one of these figures. I think there were seven to collect and they cost just around 5 pence in those days. All of the Wombles ...
Resin Casting was a bit of a blast from the past for me. One cold seventies afternoon in the winter, dad came home with a resin casting set. It looked great as you could cast anything you could lay your hands on. Cast moths, cast coins, cast hair, cast nails, cast anything and everything. Suddenly ...
Palitoy Parker Striker Football Game now that was a great little game in the seventies. It was slightly different to table soccer and subbuteo as a push of the head enabled the leg to kick the ball mechanism gave it an extra edge. Though snapped legs and heads were always likely by the end of ...
Remember Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector? Back in the 60s and 70s, before video recorders and home video was unavailable, the only way you could watch cartoons in your schools broom cupboard on end of term day was with toys like Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector, which used film loops so there was no film threading involved! This was ...
How wierd were Pez dispensers? Kind of collectible and yet a little novelty that wore off after a few dispenses. Dispense, dispense, dispense, then what? History of Pez PEZ apparently was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy in Vienna, Austria. The candy was invented in 1927 in Vienna by a confectioner named Eduard Haas III. Haas invented ...
