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Remember when again...
« on: Monday 25 November 13 17:51 GMT (UK) »
Okay...as this has created a lot of interest and with Christmas fast approaching....here is the continuing thread for your amusement and nostalgia.
Link to old thread for continuity:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=668732.msg5142943

Thanks for sharing your memories and I hope you continue to enjoy revisiting your childhood  ;)

Carol
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Re: Remember when again...
« Reply #1 on: Monday 25 November 13 18:58 GMT (UK) »
Did anyone else have a Golly...one of my favourite soft toys that is now very Un-PC....I used to collect the tokens from jam jars to send for the badges...I never realised the racial implications until I was much older...I just saw it as a colourful, happy character that was fun to have.

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Re: Remember when again...
« Reply #2 on: Monday 25 November 13 20:27 GMT (UK) »
So did I Carol, I think I had most of those badges - weren't they from Robinson's Marmalade or did the jam do them as well? I also had a golly and like you just regarded it as a doll. I think mine was based on the one from the Noddy books. They are also considered Un-PC now as well and I believe were rewritten when they were republished.

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Re: Remember when again...
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 November 13 20:37 GMT (UK) »
Good for starting another thread

I loved Gollys!!

 - and do you remember the book Epaminondas - oh that was great!   The tiger walked round and round the tree until it turned into butter - (I think)

now will i try to find my granddaughter some clackers- or not?    ;D
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Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
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« Reply #4 on: Monday 25 November 13 20:44 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Remember when again...
« Reply #5 on: Monday 25 November 13 20:54 GMT (UK) »
Sort of - but the one we had had an illustration on every page and   though the refrain was the same every time it was written differently . . . .  ;)     And there was a series of picture story books - but yes  . . . ;D
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 25 November 13 20:57 GMT (UK) »
From some of the illustrations on the web, that is probably Un-PC as well now. I think the original was written in 1911 or there abouts.
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Re: Remember when again...
« Reply #7 on: Monday 25 November 13 21:24 GMT (UK) »
I didn't have the Golly Dolly, but my sister and I both had the cast iron mechanical Golly money boxes.   Still have them.

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 25 November 13 21:39 GMT (UK) »
Can't remember - but has anyone mentioned Strewel Peter? and the hoffific tales about what happened if you didn't do as you were told?
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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