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  1. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    Ay thay small now!!!!! The shysters!
  2. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    I didn't know about St Anne Moseley as it looks nice now I wish they hsd retored the Coventry churches & old cathedral. But I expect tge flock would have dwindled but they would pull the tourists. 46 was lot!
  3. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    But I have playing cards in their original boxes & 2 board games in wooden boxes buy I posted them before , they were my great great aunt's who ran a childrens' home. I had a sort of satchel from it but smaller but it went mouldy which she kept coloured pencils in & a wire stick with tiny wooden...
  4. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I will try & look the make out we have a sheep donkey & cow in the nativity manger that didnt come with it, I bought those 30 odd years ago & again for our grandson about 10 years ago but I don't see them now.
  5. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    My Nan kept everything in it's original box like her iron, neck clippers, fairy lights. I remember when toy boxes without dangerous unopenable wire grips . The toys were kept in place by formed carboard. Our grandchikdren keep their boxes if they are like rooms of a house.
  6. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    There was a song out then, Cowboys and Indians Cowboys and Indians, We played in the playground hollering with our hands warbling over our mouths wowowowowowowowo! and the invisible guns, pyow! pyow! Too! too!f then the Tommy guns. a a a a a a a a a ! till the evil dinner ladies waded in.
  7. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    We rarely kept our boxes did we!
  8. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I had a Britain's farm and lots of animals for birthday/Christmas presents off people and exotic animals. And the cowboys I had their lariat's and lasooes came off and the guns and hats and the Native Americans headdresses, also had a wooden fort my parents got on tick with crusaders some on...
  9. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    Too sweet now! Amazed how it appeared from nowhere. I remember the box kites always seemed to be brown? You had to be a good runner!
  10. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    Did you have a Mobil petrol kite, we took mine to Burton Dassett I think dad & grabdad enjoyed it more than me. But I was happy seeing them happy together as Nan never liked dad, he couldn't do anything right in her eyes .
  11. I Am Nico

    Radio

    We had a piece of music played to us in morming assembly which I enjoyed albeit sitting cross legged on the hard floor. Like Knightsbridge by Eric Coates which our hearmaster 'Ginner' (Ginger) Ison wrote in big letters. We listened to the likes of Morning by Grieg, Intermezzo, I think it was...
  12. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I used to love a puffer train
  13. I Am Nico

    Radio

    Sundays were special because we had family time as they call it, which used to not have a name then. Radio was on all day, lovely music.
  14. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    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...
  15. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    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.
  16. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Unimaginable but like what is still happening now.Thank you for posting.
  17. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    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...
  18. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Now that does look like a letter box......Boris
  19. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    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.
  20. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

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