Responses

  1. Milk crate
    Alright the milkman at home
    A pint of milk every morning
    I could do a lot more with it just moving it around in the garden
  2. The Bicycle cycling around 35 years old
    It was the first bike I learned to cycle
  3. Nintendo
    Bedroom cupboard in a box in the garage with the other old stuff to play older games
  4. Adult bought from me by my Nan
    Something that was treasured for many years picked over all of the toys
    8 – 12 years old
    Used to sleep with every night was the toy that  give me a lot of comfort
  5. Mister silly squeaky toy 1978
    A sense of satisfaction from the quality of the moulded plastic graphic toy print
    It makes me think of the the period in the 70s and some tops and stationary
    The graphic quality of its printed side, the Weight of it , Tempered by time
  6. Barney rubble in his car
    In a combo box with other lost toys
    I occasionally displayed in a glass cabinet with related artefacts
    Access it about twice a year at the moment
  7. Evil Knievel
    White cat jumped not as high as on TV
    Revving noise
    Windup mechanism
    Not worth a lot of in the condition I left in
    Not applicable not applicable
  8. Luke skywalker figure
    Happy at home eight years old
    The uniform
    Luke skywalker figure at my mom’s
    I’d like to give it to my children
    Luke  skywalker perfect in every way I’m a battle sounds
    It’s mine
    Luke  skywalker action figure
    Bespin luke
    Happy memories
  9. A little wooden train proud
    The class congratulated me
    I made it by myself and painted myself Blue and green nine years old the first thing I ever made I will never painted it blue and green now because of the same doing green must never be seen it was eating move about it was pretty good
  10. Barbie
    Wish I had more clothes and cars
    I made sounds to them
    It was private
    My sister wasn’t into dolls
  11. Rabbit very soft girl rabbit
    Relaxing comfortable
    I wish I had a rabbit now as an adult I need someone to talk to its very lonely in this country
    He makes me  remember home at the park
    I can talk to the rabbit and not get bored
  12. Knut the bear came from Brighton my birth town
    Named after King Knut Denmark , by my Norwegian mother
    28 years old
    Memories of childhood
    The only type have kept hold since birth
  13. Cowboys and Indians plastic toys , kites and remote control cars
    Less cheap and nasty
    Kite in the mind
  14. My toy came free with marmalade
    My mother preferred me to leave it at home
    She will get dirty looks like carried out the house
    34 years old
    I feel obliged to keep it as I have so few things from my childhood
  15. Kitchen set
    No
    No
    No
    No I loved it it was from Fisher-Price
    No sound
    It lit up though
    Not really sharing it
    more making my brother food for him
  16. No toys outdoor playground
    conkers and marbles
    We created toys
    Free happy felt like  summer all year round
  17. All toys have been left in India
    my dad used by metal spinning tops
    Spinning sounds
    No time to play with toys after grandma gave me jobs to look after cattle eight years of age
    A Snake made from paper
    I remember myself
    Snake made of paper with the rope which could be pulled
  18. Skipping rope
    Kicked tin lurky
    Kick the can
    60 years married
    making dens
    Hedge bottom
    Born in the right era
  19. Goodbye wheel with a stick
    Rollerskates
    Trolley later the pram
    We made toys from tyres and whatever we could find
    Kids don’t play outside these days is not the same
  20. Metal cycle wheel Metal cycle wheel
    Metal spring noise I Share with other boys
  21. Dolls Mickey Mouse
    In my room on my bed
    I still have it
    When I get cross I take it out on Mickey Mouse when I feel angry
  22. Rubber wheel
    Anywhere in the house
    I do not know where it is
  23. The doll and a pram
    Like your baby
    Playing moms
    Being responsible
    A family thing
    Going round the garden with it
    The make-believe
    A positive experience
    Very happy
  24. Doll
    Three years old
    Hairless doll
  25. Bicycle bought by my mother
    Countryside
    Kept falling over into beetroot five years old
  26. Home-made simple toys
    Steel wheel go by itself
    Remembering with steel U-shaped hook
  27. Trainsets
    Pedal cars
    I thought of my brother and nine car
    Feel upset
    Closeness of my brother and I
    We no longer speak
  28. Scooter
    Age seven going down the path and it broke
    I fell off and hurt myself
    I liked it before it broke
  29. A doll from Dudley  market it was shared while my family
    That my father brought as a present for us
    I never played with it
  30. Commodore 64 computer games a Computer in the bedroom desk kept it as a museum piece
    Kept in the garage
    160 hours a week has become a bit addictive
    Very addictive
  31. An incredible hulk toy  green
    I wish you was more outgoing when he was human socialise more I think you was too isolated
    He made an angry roar yes I took into school on the tiny days around the end of term
  32. A gun a giraffe a lawn mower
    The giraffe was a lot prettier then a long more my mom gave it to me that only had about three toys
    Over 50 years ago
    Gone long time ago
    It’s the first two toys never seen a giraffe  before
    Like them a lot
  33. Skipping rope
    Rollerskates
    I just loved it on my skates let me feel free
    You remind To my childhood skating and skipping down the steep drive
    It was fun
  34. Cooking set
    Sounds silly today and as a child had a lot of fun times playing
    Fun memories
    Use to make my brother play with me used to make him try my food the light up hob made it  more real the memories are created
  35. My toy was a doll called tiny tears
    I loved her because she could drink a bottle
    Cry tears
    And wet nappy
    She seemed quite real
    Nearly 50 years
    It was so special and gave me my first taste of motherhood
  36. Action man and granddad brought me an extravagant bike
    It was an interesting part of my own socialisation how many perceived so early on makes me think of much simpler times responsibility as an adult less to think about
  37. World War II doll
    Paper mache
    Wooden body wrapped in cloth
    Very Victorian
    Got it when I was three
    It was new
    I didn’t Share it  although I had lots of brothers and sisters I kept to myself
    It is my childhood it represents my strongest members of play
    It triggers memories for me
    Places I had it in
    It is a gateway from memories
    I wasn’t very sociable so it was reassurance
  38. Bunny
    I was given Bonnie is a gift when I was a bridesmaid for my parents friends wedding
    He became my favourite cuddly toy and He held a bunch of flowers made of ribbons that I would rub against my top lip as a comforter
    Eventually they fell out of his hands and after many times of my mother saw in and back on I just slept with the ribbons against my top lip
    It is a very defining toy
    Are you still living Kenyon in my family travel between the UK and  air stewardess made the same job all the time
    “Does your rabbit needs a ticket?“
  39. I collected toys but I have no one to take care of them when I go
    The collection is become a burden
    My religious instructor at school said to me:
    “men look after their family and work first in the interests later”
    My idea was inverted and he told me I was wrong for doing that
    I am inverted
  40. Action man,  Tonka toys,  Metal cars and vans
    Toy guns I love Westerns
    I wanted to do Scalextric but my family could not afford it
    I had a toy robot is it moving mates quickie sounds
    me and my brothers played football and cowboys and Indians
  41. The big black-and-white dog
    Dalmatian
    It wasn’t soft
    Rigid made a furry felt material
    Nostalgic
    I’d love to go back to my grandparents house where I played with it
    My grandparents and their house in Poole on
    the coast
    How big it was in comparison to me
    And how it was always in the house somewhere defined as soon as I arrived to see my grandparents
  42. A doll  and plastic kitchen
    Slept with doll
    Made a party pretended to eat cake with friends imaginary cake
    It was perfect
    My mom got it from me
    Pretended to make cake to in the plastic kitchen
    Shared with older sister
  43. Teddy bear secondhand
    Friend had similar one
    So asked for one from mum
    Loved it
    Washed it
    Put out in the sun to dry
    Slept with it beside me
    My cousin visited and wanted to play with
    But I didn’t let them
    As it was all I had I used to stick legs and hands together with Velcro
    My daughters had so many toys and don’t appreciate them in the same way as my Teddy
  44. bat and skooter
    In the Caribbean
    Good active
    Gary Sobers  watching West Indies versus England with my uncle
    Aspiration
    Playing with other
    Racing against friends on the road
    I still visit and see the same stretch of road where we raced
  45. Big Load by Palatoy the truck pickup various bodies jumps in Hopper job scapes fascinating to watch
  46. Stickers
    Keyring with wire
    Yoyo
    BMX sugar puffs made great stickers for BMXs
    Snakes and ladders
    Travelcards
    Still have football magazines Credit cards with friends
    Pocket money
    For myself
    Did housework
    Washed cars
  47. Thunderbird two would last longer there was stronger
    Leg broke
    En noises were made by me how was told not to make idiotic noises
    The idiotic noises
  48. Tiny tears 1980
    Memory of being wide-awake and listening to the noise of the stairs creaking pretending to be asleep
  49. The garage petrol pump
    It was made by my father from wood offcuts painted
    Sadly destroyed many years ago I enjoyed the endless hours of fun with it eventually I worked at garage
  50. hush noise
    Steam train
    Something I keep private
    The bedroom cupboard uses sometimes if I have the time to use it on the weekends when I havetime
  51. Cap Gun with paper
    Rolling
    Smell
    Hang it on the wall
    Kite would long tail
    Wheels for a trolley
  52. White cuddly toy
    Melancholy
    Nostalgia
    I imagine myself as a child
    My mother in hospital after my birth time exhausted Joyous and radiant
    Full of unbound loving buying this from a mobile shop on the ward
    It’s endurance
    Despite loss accessories , dodgy eyes  and loose threads
  53. My favourite toy from childhood what is my red bicycle
    Excited whenever I was taken it out of the garage
    Still remember going for uphill rides on it with my best friend
    My best friend Peter can be played together and my dad he gave it to me
    I like how fast it went and then it could take me anywhere in the world
    Or so  I thought
  54. We had a small koala bear
    I think it was made out of leather
    Our dog chewed it
    I actually have more memories
    About our pets in about any toys
    The dog was on Airedale terrier
  55. Till
    Playing shops
    No longer have it my niece has one
    I use my little nieces to play with so we can bond
  56. Doll
    Rosemary with auburn hair
    Bend all limbs
    Silent
    Not private
    I don’t have it any more
  57. It made me feel brilliant
    Only the kids wanted it
    Stoke
    Garages at the back of houses
    War games
    No cars in streets
    Reminds me of my brother
  58. Still have toy car in Attic
    Memories are worth more than 5 pounds
  59. Ornament rather than toy
    All the bullets were lost
  60. Go-karts
    Bike
    Jigsaws
    Action man
    Cowboy guns
    Swords
    Some of the toys were handed down
    So my use to build out of scrapwood example go-karts snowboards
    Guns used to have That would go bang go-karts used crash
    No I still share with others still do when all my kids get together at family dos