Our childhood toys

[Brummie a long time ago]

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Looks like a challenge to me. Warning, mine had 10 notches.

Andrew.

 

[Nick O’Nions]

Amazing isn't it - children these days really don't know what they're missing!!

 

[mw0njm.]

Click and Catch​

saw these in wilko. happy memories

 

[Vivienne14]

I bought one from another shop (not sure which one, not Wilko) and it contained two in a set. I was worried about the size of the balls for small children so I changed the balls for ping pong balls. I bought them for my granddaughter, but we grown-ups get as much fun out of them ! Viv

 

[mw0njm.]

I bought one from another shop (not sure which one, not Wilko) and it contained two in a set. I was worried about the size of the balls for small children so I changed the balls for ping pong balls. I bought them for my granddaughter, but we grown-ups get as much fun out of them ! Viv

great stuff Viv i am not going to say i did buy one to play with

 

[Brummie a long time ago]

Click and Catch​

saw these in wilko. happy memories
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Julie remembers selling these in Woollies, 1967 ish.
As you say, happy memories.
Andrew.

 

[Richard Dye]

Click and Catch​

saw these in wilko. happy memories
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Our children had those! We ended up using pick pong balls. Not sure what was more annoying the balls all over the place or the clicking and clacking!

 

[rosie]

I had a bat-and-ball which mom called a biffbat, the ball was on a piece of rubbery string and it kept breaking. My brother had Jokari, not sure how to spell it, the ball was on a block of wood on the ground and needed two players with wooden bats a little larger than table tennis ones.
rosie.

 

[RobT]

I had a bat-and-ball which mom called a biffbat, the ball was on a piece of rubbery string and it kept breaking. My brother had Jokari, not sure how to spell it, the ball was on a block of wood on the ground and needed two players with wooden bats a little larger than table tennis ones.
rosie.

You spelt it correctly rosie:

 

[Janet Hunt]

thats taken me back a few years mort...my brother had a spud gun

lyn

I also had a spud gun and also had one of these cap rockets great fun.

 

[mw0njm.]

we used 2 bolts with a nut in between, lasted longer than the plastic rockets

 

[Richard Dye]

we used 2 bolts with a nut in between, lasted longer than the plastic rockets

And even better than the metal rockets with rubber band. The rubber band always seemed to break!

 

[Morturn]

And even better than the metal rockets with rubber band. The rubber band always seemed to break!

The 2 bolts always seemed louder to me too.

 

[mw0njm.]

The 2 bolts always seemed louder to me too.

they did if you put a few caps in them.

 

[mw0njm.]

items that was a def no no with us, was catapults and a bow and arrow, mom would not let us have them.

 

[Morturn]

they did if you put a few caps in them.

I recon so Pete

 

[Eric Gibson]

Closest I ever came to being a gunshot victim, my mate bought a Diana air pistol and fired it in my direction from a hundred yards away, I heard it scream past my ear with that noise we used to have in the cowboy films.

 

[Richard Dye]

items that was a def no no with us, was catapults and a bow and arrow, mom would not let us have them.

I had both while spending time at my aunts farm just outside of Builth Wells. I remember bringing them home on the Midland Red bus. When I got home they disappeared! But I knew how to make them and had a good supply of 1/4” square rubber for the catapult!

 

[Smudger]

items that was a def no no with us, was catapults and a bow and arrow, mom would not let us have them.

Catapults were deemed essential when guarding your bonfire heap from marauding gangs. Beats me how no-one got badly hurt. Bows & arrows were too dangerous & no-one i knew could afford a luxurious Diana air pistol.

 

[mw0njm.]

i had both a diana and a gat air pistol.but they sure was not toys.