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The last farm animals I posted that I bought are Britains stamped 1982. From an old fashioned toyshop called Goldie. Not here now. Purchased probably longer ago than I thought.

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I can't edit on my phone but bachelor dogs should read breeds

I collected Gollys for an enamel brooch & a pottery one. And cardboard. Kraaft vouchers for a record of Mary Poppins Lets Go Fly A Kite , not even toriginalbut I forgot what toys we got from the cornflake boxes. I used to collect little bachelor dog breeds, & bigger horses & deetr, from Woolies

Ay thay small now!!!!! The shysters!

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.

We rarely kept our boxes did we!

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...

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!

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 .

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...

I used to love a puffer train

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.

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.