Childhood Toys

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Gage, Jan 18, 2009.

  1. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    This was my first computer, a Commodore Pet. When you switched it on it said "7167 Bytes Free, Ready"... my avatar takes up more space than that!!!

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  2. Donnie

    Donnie Remembering HHWH

    Another view.

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    I would say that this is a trench art money box.....the "guns" are made from reversed rounds?....

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  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Who had the Matchbox Motorised Motorway?
    It was a track with long springs slide up inside it.
    You put plastic pins on the bottom of your Matchbox cars & drove them around the track.
    I've seen some images on Google but my track was orange.

    Video on You Tube of it.

    matchbox motorway - Google Video#
     
  4. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

    I`m really showing my age now I would have loved a Johnny 7 ! but like most things in life they were just too expensive to buy,especially if you had brothers and sisters....remember one Christmas wishing I was an only child ! :D:D:D
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    Images from ;-http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/johnny_seven.htm.


    Looking at the pictures again I still wish I had one
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  5. Smudger Jnr

    Smudger Jnr Our Man in Berlin

    I`m really showing my age now I would have loved a Johnny 7 ! but like most things in life they were just too expensive to buy,especially if you had brothers and sisters....remember one Christmas wishing I was an only child ! :D:D:D
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    Images from ;-http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/johnny_seven.htm.


    Looking at the pictures again I still wish I had one
    Regards
    Verrieres

    Growing up in the 50's/60's I have memories of wishing for many of the items shown.

    Money was always tight in our family and so hand made wooden weapons didn't look as good, but having a vivid imagination helped a lot!

    Perhaps that is the reason for me starting dabbling with 1/6 scale, now that I have a little more cash available.

    I have to say that this nostalgic thread is really producing some wonderful memories of bygon days.

    Regards
    Tom
     
  6. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    The Airfix SLR!

    That was my absolute favourite toy!

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  7. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  8. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

    OMG! I had a 'Junior Driver'! :lol: I'd forgotten all about that! Isn't being a kid amazing? Stick that bloody wheel on anything it'd stick to and I was driving a motor!

    I also remember how the nipper next door and I would spend hours at a time, laid out flat on our stomachs in the back garden, playing with our little Corgi 'Mini Mokes' and what ever. The grass being a bit past its best, every inch of earth between the rough clumps was a jungle track and full of fearsome dangers for the imaginary crew of our vehicles. And, of course, kids always put their faces intently close to the action, don't they? So we could Really see each scary bend in the track where an ambush might lay. I wanted a real Mini Moke for years afterwards! Daft, really; Never learned to drive and never got a 'Moke! :rolleyes:

    Airfix SLR? I couldn't have told ye they were Airfix if ye'd held a real one to my head. But my younger bro' ~ or maybe both of us ~ had one. Fired little, gray coloured rounds, didn't they?

    To be honest though, my main and favourite toys were Britains animals. Talk about Quality! The shiny, garishly painted " Made In Hong Kong " stuff from Woolies was 'ok'. But pocket money day meant agonising decisions made in front of the Britains display cabinet in Cantoys at North End. Which single one to get this week? Not cheap. But certainly to be prized!

    For the toy motors? I was an unashamed Corgi snob. Wasn't interested in Dinky. Had to be Corgi for me. God knows why! Even joined the Corgi Club and proudly sported their nice badge. That was no muck 'n rubbish either!

    And now here I am; Too old by far to ever again be able to trust a fart. Still surrounded by quality animals - though these ones live and breathe. And I have a rifle that fires very real rounds. The Mini Moke? I have a donkey who looks rather mini, next to my Cob. And " Moke " is another word for a donkey ..... Guess I'm about all set then? ;)
     
  9. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    VP said I was spoilt - thinking back I'm beginning to agree!
    Me and my bro loved this. Took bloody ages to programme thou!
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  10. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    Donnie
    I would say that this is a trench art money box.....the "guns" are made from reversed rounds?....
    On D.L's money box - a lovely thing to have handed down. :)

    On David's Corgi collection the Kubelwagon I had - with 75mm gun towed, the Saladin also rings a bell.
    My mother was a ruthless thrower outer , when things had gone past their sell by date she binned them , as a result nothing left.

    The Airfix thing was a must - wish I had some of kits unbuilt.

    On Davbids the "leaping horseman" decal on the front mudguard of the 88mm is worth noting.
    "The Leaping Horseman" was destroyed in Stalingrad.
    Some real trips down memory lane there .
     
  11. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Anybody remember Viewmaster?
     

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  12. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    As the tenth child of a family of eleven children, our toys were very much of the "hand-me-down" type and in the '20s a much knocked around pedal car was as much as I could aspire to.

    My first really prized posession was a box camera that cost all of two shillings & sixpence and that's me at the age of eleven clutching my pride & joy.
     

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  13. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    It wasn't really a camera mate. You just put the round slides in which contained photos of your favourite cartoons, then pressed the slider to move to the next pic.

    I was about 6 when I had one. Never put it down.

    Oh, and someone always came and put their hand infront of the light lens so you couldn't see the images. :)
     
  14. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    Anybody remember Viewmaster?

    Oh wow. I had Disney's Jungle Book. Cool.
     
  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Is a camera a toy ?
    Well I certainly think they can be!
    Classic shot of one boy and his Brownie Ron, don't suppose you can recall make or Model? (90% chance of a Kodak No.1?) I may just have the same device in my mound of box cameras.

    My absolute favourite toy was a largish scale JPS Formula 1 car that came with a spanner to take the wheels off, but I can't find a picture of it. A Christmas present from my dad's work. Don't know why but I've never forgotten it and faintly wish I still had it.
     
  16. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    As a child in the forties early fifties I played with 'Dinky' army transport lorries and guns, one of which, a howitzer, a match could be loaded down the barrel, a spring loaded lever pulled back and the match would be fired. Later went into modeling aircraft out of solid balsa wood and later still, into the plastic kits. Even today I have a B-24D. 1/48 scale kit which I started about 8 years ago, hope to to finish it one day.
     
  17. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    My absolute favourite toy was a largish scale JPS Formula 1 car that came with a spanner to take the wheels off, but I can't find a picture of it. A Christmas present from my dad's work. Don't know why but I've never forgotten it and faintly wish I still had it.

    Sounds like the classic Lotus 72, probably a Politoys[​IMG]
    or Polistil[​IMG]

    More here Lotus Type 72 modelcars - Lotus Drivers Guide

    I think I know where there is one for sale if you're interested.. I'll check it out.
     
  18. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Nice one Bod, the Polistil got me there, I recall them sounding like such an exotic manufacturer, as a kid I thought Italian? But I was likely wrong.
    The 72's too early though - 78 is a possibility but the packaging seems wrong - I reckon it was the Mark III I had. Even the box is nostalgic as it was almost unique in that I'd put it back in there after playing with it.
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  19. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    My remaining match-firers.
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    Bod
     
  20. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam

    I used to carry that Brownie camera everywhere and with the help of my boy's club photo section used to do all my own printing.
    Another "Ron with camera" pic below :)

    Ron
     

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