General Chat

I have my teddybear from my first christmas (I was 10 months old), a knitted doggy that my aunt made for me when I was a tiny baby (just a few weeks), and a dolls crib that my grandfather made my mum when she was little, passed to me when i was a year old (this was all so long ago, lol) The teddybear is almost bare in many places, the knitted doggy has moth-holes and is badly in need of restuffing... and the crib was refurbished for my own daughters and repainted pink (it was green originally). I don't think I could bear to part with any of these either - not that any of them has any more value than what I think they are worth - sentimental old fooll that I am. I know my grandfather was quite tickled when he was told the crib he had made was being passed to another generation.... and maybe in a few years time, it will be passed down again - to my grandchildren (still waiting for those).

I have a clockwork train set than I bought (parents bought) from the Kelloggs rice krispies packet and it still works, about 30 years old. Another old toy was called Marx Mod Tops which were spinning tops that you set going with an battery powered motor, my niece who is 12 thinks they are great and the motor still works, they are over 30 years old. Ros

I still have most of my dolls and I am now 57 so they must all be about 50 years old - trouble is all their elastic bands have perished so I have to get them fixed sometime. I also have several games that were passed on from more affluent cousins like a driving game where a handle moved a magnetised bit below the cardboard road layout and it made the car move round on top (bit like my driving, a little jerkily) I also have a muffin the mule but when I got him out of the loft at my mum's, his leg was broken due to metal fatigue I think. My mum gave away lots of my toys, my doll's house, and cot and other things but I have a lot of my childhood books and little knick knacks. I have saved almost everything of my son's including all his lego and connex? and the boxes they came in. Hopefully I will have grandchildren to pass them on to someday.

I still have my Rosebud Doll ...she is just like a baby (but hard!!) she is now over 50 years old. Wish I aged as gracefully as her!!!! My favourite toy was another doll but a friend smashed her on our Air Raid shelter!!! I was the only girl I knew who had a Black doll!!!! I loved her dearly. Jacquie

Alas I was mainly brought up in childrens homes so have nothing from those days....but! I have got a little box filled with the old money £/s/d. My g/g/g/granfather died in 1876 and I have an old penny dated 1874. I like to think it past through his fingers :o)) I keep that and an old sixpence (a tanner) dated with my birth year together close to my pooooter. Softy Gerri x

Jacquie I was in the dominican republic recently.....you can still buy black dollies there!!! and gollie wogs!!! I loved the black 'Tiny tears' dolls that my children had. Id dress them then sit them on thier beds while they were at school only to find as soon as they came home.....they would stip em!!!! Ggrrrr lol Gerri x

Shhh Gerri, someone might hear.... you mustn't say that word anymore... I had one of those too a Golly ***. When I had my black doll it was about the time West Indians first started coming to England. Now I live in Grenada and they are all coming back!!!! Jacquie