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Sand castles
Back to your childhood and the day the family took you to the beach. Sand castles, buckets and spades and a packet of 5 or 6 flags. Sand castles from any decade All you needed were two basic building...
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Meccano
Meccano had the tag line – “your hobby is for a lifetime” and for many it was. It was always rewarding, but a lot more work than Lego – Today we take a nostalgic look at Meccano. For over 100 years...
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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...
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Spinning tops
Spinning tops Most kids before computers would remember getting dizzy watching a spinning top. A top, or spinning top, is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point. This motion is...
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Postcard collecting
Vintage Postcard Collecting Along with tea cards and football stickers, postcard collecting is another collectible many kids have pursued at one point or another in there childhood. Ask and collector...
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Vintage memorabilia
Vintage memorabilia The older i get the more i love vintage collectibles and old memorabilia WHERE CAN YOU FIND VINTAGE AND RETRO COLLECTIBLES TODAY? Well it’s easier than everto collect old vintage...
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100 Greatest Toys
UK viewers we were recently treated to 100 Greatest Toys. Maybe a few suprises in their from some of the votes but no suprise Lego was number 1 Certainly few will argue that Monopoly in at number 2 as...
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Toys in the 00s
B C J L M P S T // ]]> Contrary to the later beliefs of the Pokémon generation, kids at the Turn of the (last) Century have more than their share of toys to play with. By refusing to shoot...
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Sandcastle Flags
Does anyone remember sandcastle flags? When visiting the beach, there were several shops on the beach front selling buckets spades and of course the set of flags. Normally the sandcastle flags came in...
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Teddy Bears
Loveable teddies came in all shapes and sizes. For me the greatest teddy i owned looked about 10 feet tall as a 3 year old. As i grew up he seemed to shrink until i realised how small my “big teddy”...
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