So many things were wooden and home made back then. I had a dolls cot, a ride on horse, a sit on train, a doll's house ..........but I don't know who made them. Maybe Grandad W - my Mum's Father? There is no one to ask now.
Now they can be used by the next generation.We got the bricks out when Jacob was here and he was soon practicing his tower making skills...........and then crashing it down with a toy car - his favourite occupation..............hope he grows out of crashing cars before he learns to drive!
Thank you to everyone for the name of the Pulsatilla plant and I've remembered that the other is actually something growing from a big bulb that spreads like an iris and I might be wrong about the spelling! I'll have to wait for it to flower and then put a "name that flower" post on the blog!
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Sue
My desk is waiting up in the loft until Rosie is a little bit older. Grandad was a carpenter and made it for me in 1960 when I started school. Both my girls used it in the 1980s. My doll's cot is in the muddle of being refurbished
ReplyDeleteI forgot about a desk, I had one too but it was rescued from a shed where my dad was doing some building work - so even older than the other wooden things
DeleteI still have my old wooden mangle and concertina clothes airer both near 60 now. I have used the airer for drying socks and handkerchiefs.
ReplyDeleteThey have lasted well
DeleteWas the other one a Calla lily?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so, the leaves are different
DeleteIve still got my teddy from my first Christmas when I was a baby.He is 63 now and sits in my living room with a fur waist coat on in the Winter and a sun hat on in the Summer.He is like one of the Family!,xx
ReplyDeleteI have 63 year old teddy too but he is falling to pieces - poor old thing
DeleteWonderful you have saved the toys, wooden ones seem to be so tactile xcx
ReplyDeleteI'm glad they were kept despite moving house so often
DeleteMy niece (now in her 40s) had a favourite game when she was a little girl - car crashes! She used to construct elaborate towers and bridges and then use her brother's toy cars to crash into them. She's now a traffic cop, patrolling motorways so I'm sure her early experiences with bad driving had some influence LOL Savannah
ReplyDeleteBrilliant story. I shall tell my daughter
DeleteThat is so wonderful, the old wooden toys are still a firm favourite in our family too.
ReplyDeleteI wish I still had all the wooden toys , but they were cheaply constructed back in the late 50s so have long since gone
DeleteI remember a rocking horse and a little table & chair set - all painted pink - by my dad.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted a rocking horse but never had one
DeleteI still have my old Silver Cross doll pram from the early 50s, but I haven't let the grandchildren play with it--as most of them are boys and being boys are likely to want to crash it around. For that purpose, they have access to my husband's old collection of Matchbox cars. I have a large play rug printed with roads and buildings that gets rolled out when the boys are around.
ReplyDeleteI had a big old toy pram but it was secondhand when I got it and didn't last after I'd grown up
DeleteLily has a wooden jigsaw that used to belong to me. It is a bit worn but I think there's a certain charm to that. X
ReplyDeleteA belated comment about your previous post; some bits you cut out of the diaries would be good as verses in the cards that you make or even on the front if appropriate.
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am loving that little bench
ReplyDeleteit would lovely in my kitchen xx
I love old toys! I saved a few of my kid's toys and my grandchildren played with them when they were young. They are now packed away for maybe great grands someday!
ReplyDeleteLovely old toys Sue. My son, now in his early sixties, still has his lego intact and also quite a few of his most loved books.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have anything like that, just a few bits. The thing about old wooden toys like those is that they were built with a hug in them.
ReplyDeleteI have toys and books from my daughters were babies. Now the grandchildren enjoy them. I'm glad I kept them.
ReplyDeleteAll I have left from my childhood is my Nancy Drew series of books. Mind you that was pretty much all I ever wanted for gifts.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Those are treasures. I don't have much from my childhood, just a little plastic/rubber lamb that had marbles as rollers on its feet. It adorns my laundry room these days.
ReplyDeleteI still have the teddy bear that I got as a first birthday present. She was briefly my sons when he was born until he was about eight and then to quote him 'too big for bears', then she became mine again. She's here at the van with me along with a little wooden stool that was my Uncle Harold's. It was his caravan at this site that started my love affair with simplicity and it was nice to bring it back here over fifty years later.
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