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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
46 of 59  Fri 3rd Nov 2017 1:43pm  

Annewiggy, not quite, the picture was head and shoulders, the hair was curled up the back of the head, I think the box was red and green. Long time ago, but thanks.
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Covkidd
Coventry
47 of 59  Fri 3rd Nov 2017 6:48pm  

Barnbys made a big impression on me, it must have as I've had dreams about being in there. I can still remember the layout on the first floor, Action Man stuff immediately right at the top of the stairs, board games to the left, then the plastic aircraft kits, what a brilliant shop it was. I remember Davies Sports shop being a good place to buy Subbuteo items.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
48 of 59  Tue 7th Nov 2017 5:12pm  

There were a good many shops that sold toys - toys and models meant more to kids in the old days than today. Haven't seen a mouth organ for decades. Hornby's, a household name when I was young, clockwork trains, with foot lengths of track that slotted into each other, replicas of all the steam trains. Black dolls that when the girls undressed them they were white underneath. A 3-4 foot high model of a one man band, place a penny in the slot, you had music and the model moved as if playing. You could buy bone clappers. One shop had a large model on show for a couple of weeks, could have been half-size of Campbell's Bluebird with its Rolls Royce engines. You could ask questions. Don Bradman's cricket bats became all the rage. I could go on all day.
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Greg
Coventry
49 of 59  Tue 7th Nov 2017 7:33pm  

Not to mention Mobo horses!!
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
Thread starter
50 of 59  Wed 8th Nov 2017 6:37am  

In case anyone forgot.
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Osmiroid
UK
51 of 59  Wed 8th Nov 2017 11:49am  

The back end looks like an Arctic Seal!
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
52 of 59  Sun 12th Nov 2017 5:00pm  

At a time when 'Bluebird' was the fastest car in the world Barnby's sold a toy model, made of tin with a tin spring and key, you wound it up (much like undoing a corn-beef tin), it would travel about twenty feet from one wind, but the spring didn't last very long. The real 'Bluebird' was about thirty feet long, three feet high back to the cock-pit, then a fin about five feet high and five feet from the rear (guessing from the past). Lead soldiers were about ten-a-penny and yo-yo's different sizes and colours.
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Garlands Joke Shop
Coventry
53 of 59  Thu 16th Nov 2017 6:10pm  

An advert from a 1962 Coventry Theatre (Hippodrome) Birthday Show (1937-1962) souvenir programme:
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Prof
Gloucester
54 of 59  Sun 4th Nov 2018 8:09pm  

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NeilsYard
Coventry
55 of 59  Mon 11th Feb 2019 2:09pm  

There's long been a quest on some of the old Coventry Facebook pages for a decent image of the Smithford Way store. Guess what turned up this morning (dated Feb 1980)
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Covkidd
Coventry
56 of 59  Mon 11th Feb 2019 7:50pm  

Lots of memories with that photo. Barnbys my favourite childhood shop, the City Arms, 2nd stop off on our Friday night pub crawl, Tiffanys for the bands, and even bought a couple of tee shirts from John Justin before a holiday.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
57 of 59  Mon 18th Feb 2019 2:32am  

Whist looking on Britain from Above for something else I happened to notice the Barnby store on Corporation Street mentioned earlier in this thread (1953) - ...and from a little earlier in 1949 -
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Greg
Coventry
58 of 59  Mon 18th Feb 2019 7:07pm  

Used to buy Dinky toys and Bayko bricks from this store, as a kid.
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Greg
Coventry
59 of 59  Mon 18th Feb 2019 7:11pm  

On 8th Nov 2017 6:37am, Dreamtime said: In case anyone forgot.
My father had a small toy shop, just after the war, and he was the first person in Coventry to sell them. They were quite expensive.
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