Toys From Childhood

I had the bottom two. Brilliant!

 

My knuckles were red raw cranking that handle.

 

You were lucky to have little dainty hands.

Whoever engineered the toy didn’t leave enough space from the lowest point on the crank handle to the ground.

I do remember the poor toy getting pitted against increasingly impossible stunts. I think we definitely played with it to destruction.

 

Civil War and Battle bubble gum cards. Some were so gruesome they were banned.
I studied them for hours as a kid as the artwork was amazing.





I obviously have the full sets now. Har har har......erm, Over

 

Amazing how much fun we had with matchbox cars and a wooden gas station. You could drive up a ramp for services on the roof
Modern example not so great

 

Wow - haven’t times changed?

 

My dad made me one, oh and a cowboy fort.

it was bloody brilliant.

Far better than the shop ones.

 

Oh dear, this thread makes me feel old. When I was a kid in the 1950s, most of my toys were made either of tinplate or of wood. (If it's OK to mention wood in present company...)

 

I'll tell you what I wasn't allowed to have… toy motorcycles. They were deemed a bad influence. I might want the real thing someday.

So once I left home and got a real job, what's the first thing you think I bought?

 

Dinner?

 

I had an action man and tank, my gran knitted clothes for it, which was lovely but I hardly played with it. I had a second hand box of Meccano though, spent hours with that.

 

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?

 

To include himself, I'm sure.

 

I had a couple of Meccano sets in the late 60's and spent hours playing with them. Some years later, at 16 years old when other "interests" took precedent, I gave the sets to a neighbour for his young lad only to see them thown out with the rubbish a few weeks later. Really p*ssed me off that did. I also had many Corgi/Dinky models and still have this Corgi Major in the loft from 1969.....



I've also still got an original 1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and one or two less famous models. Spirograph and Plasticraft were two other favourite toys from the early '70's, along with a Triang scooter and a Hornby clockwork train set. Happy days.

 

A friend of mine had a large wooden garage and forecourt with a 3 level multistorey carpark attatched, for his model cars. Not really sure if it was home made (probably was) but it took two of us to lift it! He had
way more model cars and trucks than me, mutch to my extreme annoyance!