Remember When...

[Treetotal]

Very interesting to hear about the cooker that GS and others mentioned...not come across that before...most of my toys were art related or books and puzzles but I did have a game called "Confucius" with a magnetic figure with a wand....also "Concentration" which was a game of pairs.
Carol

[loobylooayr]

Very interesting to hear about the cooker that GS and others mentioned...not come across that before...most of my toys were art related or books and puzzles but I did have a game called "Confucius" with a magnetic figure with a wand....also "Concentration" which was a game of pairs.
Carol

I had a similar game, Carol which was kept for me at my Gran's house called The Magic Robot. I think you asked the robot a question from a question and answer card and he swung (magnetically) with his wand to the correct answer. Don't know if I described that very well!

My favourite Christmas gift was a blackboard and separate easel. My dad ( a time served joiner) made this for me although I believed Santa made it with his elves. He painted the easel a lovely shade of pale pink and stuck beautiful nursery transfers on it. I loved it and spent many happy hours "playing schools", teaching my dolls.

Looby

[kiwihalfpint]

My earliest xmas pressie I can remember was when I was five, included several large jigsaws, two children sized parasols, and a toy battery operated sewing machine.   I woke the whole household up very early as I caught my finger in the needle.     Made many dolly clothes with it and I still have the machine.

At the bottom of the sack was the fruit, nuts and sugar mice.

Cheers
KHP

[a-l]

My favourite was the wooden stilts my Dad made ,used them for years. The other kids who had stilts would get together for stilt races along the length of the street.

[groom]

I'd forgotten all about those cookers, GS - I had one as well, and like you, I wasn't allowed to use it unsupervised. What a strange toy to give a young child.

My uncle (the one I have since found out was never married to my aunt  ) was very good at woodwork and one Christmas he made me this wonderful dolls' house, or rather dolls' bungalow, where the roof lifted off so you could see inside. My parents bought me all the furniture and I spent hours playing with it. When I was about 9, I was allowed to redecorate it using scraps of wallpaper and paint.

He also made my brother a model farm with barns and farmhouse - no plastic animals then, they were all lead.

[DavidJP]

I had a similar game, Carol which was kept for me at my Gran's house called The Magic Robot. I think you asked the robot a question from a question and answer card and he swung (magnetically) with his wand to the correct answer. Don't know if I described that very well!

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Described it perfectly Looby! Had one of those myself when I was a boy in  the 70s! Also remember that every Christmas we (my siblings & I) always got Annuals (Books that is not plants! ) Matchbox cars was another, plastic toy soldiers & cap guns were also a couple of others. As regards the cap guns, I had both the ones with the plastic caps & the paper roll caps over the years! Oh happy days, lots of lovely memories!

Just remembered something about cap guns or similar, I seem to recall having a gun that you scooped out pieces of potato & then fired them from the gun. Am I remembering right or is my memory faulty & there was no such thing?

Just caught your post Groom. I remember having a model farm as well one Christmas, with farm animals, little milk churns etc, I'm pretty sure they were shop bought though rather than homemade!

Great thread!

Kind regards

David

[stevew101]

Just remembered something about cap guns or similar, I seem to recall having a gun that you scooped out pieces of potato & then fired them from the gun. Am I remembering right or is my memory faulty & there was no such thing?

Had one as well - I seem to remember that it was called a Spud Gun 

Steve

[Greensleeves]

Oh how I remember stilts, Alienlady.  There was a programme on children's television one night where they showed how your father could easily make you a pair of stilts.  To the delight of me and my older brother my father made us a pair each that very evening.  So the next day, brother and I spent a while in the garden mastering the art of stilt-walking and then set off to do a round of the married quarters to show all our friends what we had.  Within a couple of days practically every kid on the camp was stilt-walking.  Was great fun.

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Yes that's the same thing Looby describes David...I wonder why I thought it was called Confucius Says...I thought the one I had a had chinese figure 

My Dad made wooden stilts too and put rubber tips on the end 

Posts crossed GS...we had to lean against the wall to get on them

Carol