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Stepping
into the Museum by the “Old Toy Shop Window” is like stepping back
in time.Here you will find lots of things to evoke your childhood memories, whatever your age.
The “Toy Shop Window,” with its impressive surround of reproduction metal advertising signs, is a display showing some of the toys you could have bought from your local shop in times gone past.
Moving along the bottom corridor, you will find either side is packed with displays. Here you can see Sindy, Pippa and Tressy dolls from the 1960s onwards, wearing their original outfits. There is also a collection of the “much loved Gollies” in various sizes and makes. The T.V related case boasts famous character toys from Muffin the Mule, Basil Brush, The Herbs and The Wombles, to lesser-known character toys such as Mr Turnip and Hank from Whirligig and Four Feather Falls.
A further T.V case includes an interesting selection of toys from Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Paddington. Alongside this is a case of Pelham puppets, many still in their original boxes. Opposite these cases there is a display of the Lone star locos and accessories from the 1970s, in a case with a selection of most unusual tin plate signs given away with the Adventure comic in the 1920s depicting trains, ships and sea-planes. Below is a complete selection of the Airfix 00 scale plastic vehicles and Lead soldiers, with their boxes from the ‘20s to the early 40s made by Britains a
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the extremely rare Courtney Doran.Sooty is also well represented on mugs, puzzles and xylophones on display as well as Peggy Nesbitt dolls and Mr Men items for our younger visitors.
