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Again I was hooked by an advert for a toy locomotive, with a cow catcher on the front It was quite big, tin, green, red removable cow catcher, I liked removable things. My gran got it me from Woolworths. I think she enjoyed buying it. She said she asked the manager to demonstrate it imagine...

Dad started getting me those I had 2 Coldstream Guards on dark bay horses and 2 mounted police on black ones. These were plastic though.

Unimaginable but like what is still happening now.Thank you for posting.

The advert for it hooked you in. Like The Battle Of The Little Big Horn hooked me in. I never worked out how to play it & the plastic pieces were really cheap. I preferred my cowboys & Indians on horse back, which ended up just the horses. I had the Native American Indian chief,( hope I am not...

Now that does look like a letter box......Boris

I found if you stood the green man back to front he would flip in to the barrel and me mum and dad would shout mouse trap!. The cat looked on in disdain because we had woken him up. We used to play on a Sunday afternoon after dinner.

Blow yes, magnetic? The other side of the magic painted page.

A Kelly doll had no legs they were a figure on top of a weighted ball, like the budgie's toy, Nan called them Kelly dolls.

Having trouble editing my post the dead bit keeps appearing. No body died I can assure.

Some things we just don't remember or didn't have. I never knew what Subuteo was really, were they a bit like Kelly dolls.? If so I never saw the point. Never heard of new footy. I wasn't sure about Totopoly either or Cluedo. I liked Twister but as an only, it wasn't practical. I played a lot...

I wanted one of those little tin horses that bob up & down till I saw circus chimps on them

I bought something like that called craft sticks in the 60s, they were coloured pipe cleaners.

0 So then I wanted to be a farmer till I realised you had to kill or have animals killed.

I thought I was going crackers I am not that cleaver. Are they after my/ the Forum details?

Scary stuff, it looked like I was promoting a site. Thank you.

I loved mine I like the ratchet ticket machine the noise it made . They used to ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up, at school. it was jobs like a bus conductor, a nurse, a train driver, lorry driver, maybe what your dad did, I wanted to be a vet, me who can't stand blood & was afraid...

Someone has taken what I posted..... (when I was posting as Nico before I had problems which the Forum rectified), and have added to it. I posted "When I was renovating my place" etc to....."in English as you probably know." Last word know is on the fourth line down. The post that carries on...

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Viv said to ask on the Advice section but I can't find it . Is there one? The Alert for the BHA on my MAC email is still the same, Birmingham History Forum. My Phone has suddenly changed to [email protected] is this OK? Also for a time a yellow ball appeared mid text with little dots...

Was Cattel a famous Brummie? I ask as I worked with a Joyce Cattel. Never heard it before or since. We never saw it written down we thought it was Kettle made to sound posh, like Mrs Bucket.