Which Childhood Toy Would you Bring Back?

[DianaCanada]

Sindy was sold here but they were hard to find.  I think Action Man was something like the US toy GI Joe.

[garden genie]

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I've still got my Sindy dolls tucked away somewhere, (One blonde, one brunette) and little sister Patch and 'Sindy's boyfriend Paul'.
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[Viktoria]

My second son was fascinated with thev closing  eyes of my French Bisque doll .It was lovely and I did not want it to get damaged.
He was lonely when his older brother started school ,so I got him a doll, which spent its life tied to the back of his little tricycle .
Could not find a boy doll but “ Patsy” —- trade name—-  had short hair ,so passed for a boy.I knitted pants and jumper.
Forgot about it when he went to school ,I gave it back to him when I moved house  six years ago.
Aaaaaw!
Viktoria.

[Treetotal]

I remember having to wait until my Birthday for a Hula Hoop. All my friends had them but I didn't, it paid off though, by the time I got mine they made them with beads in, so it rattled when you spun it.
We also had a huge skipping rope that everyone could join in when the rope was turned. I liked playing double ball against the wall, singing a rhyme in time to the throwing of the 🏀s
Thanks for sharing your memories on here.
Carol

[BushInn1746]

Born in 1940 with no older siblings toys as such were almost non existent, so, I would bring back “freedom” the freedom to roam, to climb trees, to explore the abandoned Royal Navy target range and many more.

Mike

I agree.  We were turned loose in the morning and expected to be home for supper at 6 o/c.  If we were late on a summer evening, my father would make a poor attempt at mess call on the trumpet.

It was pretty much the same in the 1960s, we'd make our own entertainment.

My late Grandfather was a gardener at the County Council Nursery and the adjacent County Depot stored the old fire engines and old council equipment being scrapped. My grandfather use to take us to his work and we use to play on the old fire engines.

Grandfather salvaged some chair or cart wheels and axles and I made a go-cart.

My Father was buying our house and had no money to buy us toys to begin with. Our School uniforms were purchased with FIS (Family Income Supplement).

I'd been seriously ill and nursed at home and my Father suddenly appeared with a Scalextric racing set and extra track. It was quite a nice shock.

I still have my disused train set I saved up for and part of my model car collection.

Mark

[brigidmac]

I had a space hopper in the 60s big bouncy ball with a face and horns for handles

You could bounce as high or as gently as you wanted I think it would be good to have now as an exercise ball but with the benefit of something to hold on to .

Was it a short-lived craze or does anyone else remember them . I had a pogo stick too and sister had stilts . But I wouldn't bring them back even if it did keep us outside .

Liked playing games with the neighbours we lived in a close ( cul de sac ) so took over the road as well as the pavements

 

[BushInn1746]

I had a space hopper in the 60s big bouncy ball with a face and horns for handles

You could bounce as high or as gently as you wanted I think it would be good to have now as an exercise ball but with the benefit of something to hold on to .

Was it a short-lived craze or does anyone else remember them . I had a pogo stick too and sister had stilts . But I wouldn't bring them back even if it did keep us outside .

Liked playing games with the neighbours we lived in a close ( cul de sac ) so took over the road as well as the pavements

Oh I remember that space hopper, I bounced on a friend's hopper, backward and hit my head on the ground.

[candleflame]

I had a space hopper in the 60s big bouncy ball with a face and horns for handles

You could bounce as high or as gently as you wanted I think it would be good to have now as an exercise ball but with the benefit of something to hold on to .

Was it a short-lived craze or does anyone else remember them . I had a pogo stick too and sister had stilts . But I wouldn't bring them back even if it did keep us outside .

You can still buy space hoppers today - just google that well known retailer beginning with A and you'll see a range of them so you can exercise to your hearts content lol x

[ThrelfallYorky]

I remember not one but TWO (and at one point three) Dolls Houses! There's one I still have, packed up in the loft, a Triang pretty basic one, with shoe-boxes of furniture, mostly bought in Wayfarers Arcade Toy shop in Southport, enough to furnish a couple of mansions!
I was given a really large late Victorian one, but it had woodworm, so was banished to the cellars. A somewhat smaller family one was passed on to another family, but I never really went for dolls - had some of those lead-footed pipecleaner ones, and made a couple more with barbola heads, along same lines, as I thought the bought ones looked pretty rubbish. Last time I saw those they too were nestling in a shoebox, under tiny quilts and propped up against tiny pillows! One whole shoebox was certainly full of red plastic kitchenware and tin kitchen things like sinks abd fridges!
I had one doll that actually had a name, still have her, depleted mohair wig and all.
Was given a Bayko building set when I was ill in bed for a short time. Added completion/conversion sets to it. Drew out my own plans - usually after I'd built a structure. Despite the fiddly rods and wonky windows, loved that - guess where the original, and at least two of the follow-up sets are? In the far corners of that same loft. Forgotten what a magpie I can be.
Think I've kept as many childhood books as possible, unfortunately my Mum gave most of them away when I was away at college!( She'd missed the ones in the bookcase behind the attic door in my room! Old favourites like "Wind in the Willows" and "Grimm's fairytales at least were saved) I pressured her to try to buy them back, but some gone for ever. A bookseller I knew went pale when I said she'd got rid of ALL the early "Chalet School" books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer, I'd been given them by an older lady, her daughter no longer wanted them, and I devoured them, adding more for birthdays and Christmas. Many were, I realised later, first editions!
- now, I wonder what else is up there? Must have a look....
TY