Looking at many toys today, my mind goes back many years when my children then were very young,
to begin with do you remember matchbox toys, my son had over eighty miniature toy cars which were very small hence the name match box and these toy cars were very cleverly designed and were cheap and came in many colours and makes easily recognised,
the toy factory was then in east London,
other toys came to mind was the match stick gun which fired matchsticks ,spring loaded ,
a miniature of the guns the royal artillary fire on a 21 gun salute. and it fired the matchsticks really well, great fun,.
which my son had endless fun firing endless amounts of matchsticks at leaded soldiers, of course many of you nearer to my age would remember those times, and the variation of toys for boys and girls was in abundance ,
and children in those times had a wonderful time being amazed at the range and variety of toys then being bought, …….that's if you had the money to buy them
how ever the matchbox toys sold then were around 10p in todays money or two shillings in pre decimal money,
Q; so do you remember other makers of toys then that were the sought after toys of those times , if so will you share your memories of the toys that were available then, itll make interesting reading ,