General Chat

Valerie, an air raid shelter scene was it? My late Mum said I was in my secong chilhood years ago but then they never tought to have toys that the upper classes had did they?

Threaten him with no food Lol It works with mine...............

Where do you keep them--mu hubby has been doing one and has come to a stand still---no amount of nagging seems to get him going with it--i'm dying to furnish and decorate it

hi May it seems we are not the only ones then lol
I also decorate my houses for christmas. Definately in my second childhood !! I have just finished a 40's roombox complete with gas mask holder and built everything in it

Frances, as Valerie says worth mega bucks at fairs and on the net.

Hi frances I sold a 50's ascot water heater triang one for £36 on ebay

Hi Sue, I have all Christmas trimmings, lighted tree, wreaths ,cards bells, Christmas food and pudding and cake wine in bottles even got three whiskey minis when te called at Gretna Green last year on way to Scottish holiday.

Oooh Val, now you have got me thinking - my mum still has the dolls house with all our 50's/60's furniture in it - will have to talk to her about it!

Christina if you have original 50's furniture you will be surprised at the prices it will fetch. There are collectors out there looking for that ! Val

Lol, May

Probably not - but hey, I can say I am in my second childhood!

Will they gat a look in Frances. my 6 year old g. grand daughter is very careful and can reset the dining table without disturbing anything else, the grand children and even grandson age 9 and nephews around the same age love it and no they are boys who play football and do kung fu etc, not a bit efeminate, just fascinated I think.

Hi all Lovely to hear all your dolls house stories, we built our own house (full size) and I made sure I had a workshop and enough space for all my houses and shops. I also collect teddies ( miniature ones and have about 250. Between dolls houses and bears my house looks like a toy shop !It's an adult one though !!!
Val

My Grandad made my dolls house for my 7th birthday in 1956. It even had lights that worked! Sadly it was sold when I was about 10 or 11.

OH made one for our eldest daughter (still up in our loft!) and then made her daughter one 5 years ago for her Barbie dolls. It was enormous, but daughter and I had so much fun decorating it and furnishing it.
Sadly that had to be demolished when they moved house, but Santa brought grandaughter a 1:12 scale house last Christmas. It is beautiful and I love playing with it. It even had a lit Christmas tree and a wreath on the front door. As she is only 9½, most of the furniture and dolls are Playmobil, but as she gets older she will get more adult furnishings. She has picked them from a catalogue already & I can't wait :o))

Sue
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We had one when I was little that had belonged to my Mum when she was a girl. As there were two of us girls in the family my parents had an "extension" built onto the dools house.

I always loved playing with it (but my sister didn't that much) so when I had 3 daughters I always hoped that mum would pass it on to me.

She didn't, and kept it at her house where my girls played with it when we visited.

Now it sits in her garage and is never played with - such a waste!

Frances

PS. Have been thinking about buying one to sit on our landing for the grandchildren to play with (not for me, you understand, lol!)

Tina, my Oh has four teddies and my daughter 50 next week loves teddies her OH has bought her threeSteiff ones lucky her.

I didn't have a lot of toys when little because of the war. Between Christmas 1938 and New Year 1939, I started to be ill with meningitis and was in hospital until July 1939. I'd had a doll for Christmas an wanted it with me in hospital when I was getting better, but because it was an infectious disease couldn't bring it home so was without a doll and the the war started and none to be had. Afer the war and as soon as poss Mum gotme Pedigree baby doll but I had a toddler sister who dropped it on hard surface and broke the ear off. by then I was 12 and considered myself too old, but when in my 60's started collecting expensive to me, porcelain dolls, costing between £60 and £200 each,one is a double jointed repro of a 1911 doll, I have ten baby and toddler size and half a dozen smaller ones , one a repro bebe , then I stopped collecting dolls no where to put them they are in the bedroom on shelves, then went onto dolls houses and of course the porcelain doll families are much smaller and are housed.

Yep, better to give than to receive.
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Possibly made some child's dream come true Tina, lovely.

I had a lovely large one in the late 40s early 50s made by my Dad. I ,loved it. It disappeared one day when in my late teens an I realised Mum had sold it. Never knew who to. didn't think much of that at the time but looking back it was what they did then, Toys seem to have been on loan not our property!

Ann
Glos

I had one just gave it away a few weeks ago - was sick to death with not having anywhere to put it. LOL
It has gone to a good home - a not well off family down the road and they were so delighted with it, so I feel pleased that someone is getting enjoyment out of it.
Tina xx