Tin Toys

Tin ToysA tin toy, or to be pedantic a tin lithograph toy, is a mechanical toy made out of tinplate and normally painted by chromolithography to resemble primarily a character or vehicle.Tin toy robots are a highly collectable type of tin toy. Classics like the Mr Atomic Robot, and Robby the Robot from the movie ...

Silly Putty

Silly Putty

Silly Putty This may sound a silly question, but what was Silly Putty originally called? The answer, Nutty Putty As with most beginnings, they often happen by accident. Silly Putty is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World ...

Toy chest trunk

Toy chest trunk

How exciting it is if tyou find the key to your old toy chest trunk. My toy chest was an old rusty trunk. After spending many years in our summer house, it was cleaned up and became the toy trunk for many years. It did have a lockable area but we never knew of a key. You ...

Marathon / Snickers

Marathon and Snickers

For those that grew up in the UK and Ireland a strange change took place in every kids lunch box in the late eighties and early nineties. The Marathon bar was renamed to Snickers.   Why Snickers? Why would anyone choose a name that rhymed with knickers? Apparently it was named after a horse owned by a ...

Lego

Lego

Now lego was probably my favourite toy when growing up as it had such major flexibility and rewarded imagination.Like Mechanno lego was also a construction toy though Lego was invented in Denmark. The original lego seemed to have few colours compared to the current colorful interlocking plastic bricks available today with all sorts of built in ...

Knitted clothes

Knitted clothes

For most my childhood i was haunted by knitted items. It seemed the war overlapped into my life 50 years on. Can you beleive that at our infants school, for drama and PE (Pyhsical Education) parents were asked to Knit leaotards for the girls and shorts for the boys. Well apart from the fact that ...