Sooty's Band
1960s postcard of the UK TV character Sooty (the longest running children's show in the world).

Little Bo Peep
Doesn’t Bo Peep look pretty in her summer frock and bonnet!

Grown ups will appreciate this is an embossed chromolithograph (I suspect the front of a folding card removed for placing into an album). The frame is decorated with ribbons and flowers to the corners, the rhyme is on a scroll - it is these details that lift this from the ordinary.

Summer Days (Teddy Bears)
Aren’t the teddies having a lovely time!

Postcard artwork by Jean Gilder 1990s

Snow White and the seven dwarfs
Can you name all seven of the dwarfs?

This is a classic Walt Disney image. Music sheet ‘Some day my Prince will come’. Words Larry Morey, music by Frank Churchill. Dated 1937

Nursery Rhyme
Well children, here we have Little Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey. Can you see the spider and do you remember what happens next?

Size 4 ¾” x 7 ¾”. Hard back cover from My Nursery Rhyme Book chromolithograph by Ernest Nister. Book long since parted.

Toys day out
Do you think they are going to the seaside or to the country? I wonder what is in the parcels?

Postcard artwork by Audrey Tarrant. Publishers: The Medici Society 1990s

Lollipop bear
Everyone is crossing the road safely.

Postcard artwork by Molly Brett (1902-1990). Publishers: The Medici Society. 1990s

Cinderella
Do you know what the pumpkin and the mice turn into? A long time ago children just like you collected pictures like this and glued them in a scrap album.

Victorian Chromolithograph mounted on A4 sheet.

children playing
Victorian Chromolithographs mounted on A4 sheet.

Children Playing Games
Victorian Chromolithographs mounted on A4 sheet.

Down in the Meadow
Victorian Chromolithographs mounted on A4 sheet.

Tri-ang Minic motor rally racing about 1964
I guess the true fan of slot car racing probably went for Scalextric. But......

Tri-ang Minic motorways
... Minic motorways were aimed at the model railway enthusiast. It provided an integrated road-rail system with level crossings, drive on/off car transporters etc

Tri-ang railways catalogue from around 1964
This catalogue was so well used by me as a child that it is now falling apart. Well, as anticipation (and planning) is half the pleasure, I don't care - I had so much enjoyment from it!!

Childrens Clock.
Can you tell the time?? This is not as easy as a digital clock and the figures on its face are Roman numbers.

Chromolithograph printed by Ernest Nister. Max size 6” x 7”

Winkle’s Wedding.
Box lid from a game of the 1920s made by the famous toy and game manufacturer Chad Valley. Cards with a phrase on them are dealt to the players. One player reads from a short story book with blanks that are filled in by the other players reading the phrase from their card - with humorous results.

Noddy’s Tea Party
Postcard published by Salmon. Enid Blyton’s Noddy is joined by 2 teddies. That cake looks scrummy.

Winnie the Pooh “Never forget”
Postcard published 1989 by Reflex Marketing shows Christopher Robin with his bear.

Rupert Bear
Book cover reproduced as a Christmas card.

“The cat only grinned when it saw Alice”.
1993 Reflex Marketing postcard of a picture from Alice in Wonderland originally published 1911 by Macmillan. Illustration by Sir John Tenniel and coloured by Harry Theaker.