Claire says “ My brother bought Sooty for me when I was only 18 months old. He bought him from the travelling Matthew Corbett Sooty show: I was too young to go to the show myself. Sooty became my favourite toy, and for the last 35 years, he has always been there for me to …
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Lee’s mum says “My son Lee used to love the Gruffalo stories when he was small. One day when he was two, he saw the Gruffalo mouse teddy in the Drogheda branch of Waterstones in Ireland and fell in love. We took the mouse teddy straight home, where Lee and mouse started to watch Curious …
Sarah says “I was born in Port Vila, Vanuata (an island in the South Pacific). My grandmother Olive gave me a toy rabbit when I was two. I called her Belinda, and she has been with me ever since. Belinda and I have travelled all over the world in the 52 years that we have …
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Moyra told us “My husband was given a toy rabbit when he was a new-born. The bunny, called Bun-Bun, has been with him ever since. I decided to get Bun-Bun treated at the toy hospital as a Christmas surprise for my husband. Now his missing ear has been replace,he has had a good wash and …
Wendy told us “Winifred was a lockdown surprise. We discovered her in a trunk while we were all shut away at home. She was in a sorry state. Her traditional Welsh clothes needed a wash and mend, but there was no moth damage. Her face was stained, her fingers and toes were broken and her …
“Well over a hundred years ago, my great-grandparents bought a baby doll for their little son, Robert Laver March, from a shop in Glastonbury. Robert passed the doll to his new granddaughter (me!) in 1949, when I was just two weeks old. The doll was called Baby John, and he used to sit on a …
Judith Norman tells us about her doll Baby John. Read More »
Ramandeep told us about her toy Po. Po is 25 years old this year. I was 5 years old when I got Po, in October/November 1997 part of the first ever release of Teletubbies soft toys. My Dad queued a long time in the cold weather at Mothercare World as part of the Christmas rush …
Julia told us the story of these fascinating dolls. “These dolls were made in the 1960s by Innuit people who were in hospital in Canada, suffering from TB. These TB hospitals were just for the Innuit population. The Innuit dolls are a reminder of the fact that the European settlers to Canada bought new diseases …
Julia told us Ted’s story. “Ted was made in England during World War 2. He was handmade, probably by someone in the village in Devon where my mum was living. He was given to my brother when he was a toddler, and when he later rejected him, I inherited him in 1946, when I was …
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Ian said: “I first met The Bear with No Name when I was about seven. He belonged to my mum, who was given him as a birthday present in the 1950s. When we were children, my brother and sister and I were allowed to play with him and listen to his music, or to his …
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