Anyone remember the toys they use to play with as a child in the 1960's ?
Do you remember these:
1) Hoola Hoops
2) Whip and Top
3) Dinky Toy Cars
4) Jacks
5) Piece of triangular shaped cardboard with a folded piece of brown paper inside - you held it above your head then brought it down sharply and it gave a bang.
6) Roller skate with a book on it for you to sit on when going down hills.
7) Trolley's....... a shaped board with small pram wheels on the front and two large ones on the rear.........control steering with a piece of rope.
8) The 99 model YO-YO ......use to do tricks with them.
Games were of simple design in those days but still very enjoyable to play.

I remember those bobbin things with 4 pins in the top that we used to make yards and yards and yards of useless wool plaits on!
We also used to make balls out of silver paper and elastic bands and pompoms from 2 circles of cardboard that we wrapped wool round and round.
We played at picnics using stones and gravel for the food and bits of broken crockery.
Mostly we played in the derelict houses waiting for demolition-discovering 'treasure'.

Yes and yes to the above two posts !The useless bits of wool plait were known as 'French knitting' ! I can remember making the pom poms with bits of card too !
The pieces of folded card and brown paper that produced a bang reminded me of stuff you used to get free in comics.Can you remember rushing to get the latest edition to get the free gift, usually a plastic Kazoo or something !!

My kids had large empty box's to play in,they where free and would play for hrs in them

Meccano
Sindy dolls
Hornby trains
Corgi cars
pedal push cars
chemistry sets
magic sets
plastic tubes whirled round your head that whined [like vaccuum cleaner pipes]
clackers

Dinky, Corgi, Spot On and Matchbox cars. Nothing else mattered.

tiny tears dolls....

Yes and yes to the above two posts !The useless bits of wool plait were known as 'French knitting' ! I can remember making the pom poms with bits of card too !
The pieces of folded card and brown paper that produced a bang reminded me of stuff you used to get free in comics.Can you remember rushing to get the latest edition to get the free gift, usually a plastic Kazoo or something !!

That's it!!! French knitting! Couldn't remember what it was called when I posted.
I can remember the bangers and also Bunty and Judy comics that we had in the 50s/60s and the disappointment if my parents hadn't enough spare cash to buy them.

Johnny Seven (multi shooting missile gun)
Secret sam ( suitcase full of gadgets hidden camera etc)
whurler hoop(tube you whirled around to make a massive whurling sound)
marbles(playing in mucky man hole covers & trying to win luckies)
spinning tops (pushed up & down to make them spin concentrically for ages)
clackers (2 balls on sting) use to wrap your knuckles with these
Space hoppers ( used to sit on these large orange balls with ears)
Raleigh choppers & chippers ( funcky bikes with gear sticks)
Scalelectrix( Cars run on electric with 12 volt transformer)
Trophy football (use to get these for 1 book of green shield stamps)
often left in front of the fire & creating an egg on the side making it more like a rugby ball
Stilts (long pieces of wood with lugs on )
Roller skates staples (not recommended)
French arrows (piece of caine with home made flights & a roll of string to hurl them in the air
Gats Y shaped (often made from tree twigs)with elastic tide to fire
Whip & top
Subuteo ( football game)
Pogo sticks (use to jump up & down like a yoyo on these)
Combs with silver paper from fag packets for a cheap mans harmonica.
Obviously mosly boys toys/items not sure of the girls stuff but I will ask my brother

2 balls with all the different rhymes and throws
and not really a toy but a large piece of wool, elastic or string where 2 people (girls usually) would stand inside pulling it taut and another girl would stand on it and make a pattern. The wool would start at the girls' ankles then go to the calves then knees if the girl was successful. Anyone know what this was called?

2 balls with all the different rhymes and throws
and not really a toy but a large piece of wool, elastic or string where 2 people (girls usually) would stand inside pulling it taut and another girl would stand on it and make a pattern. The wool would start at the girls' ankles then go to the calves then knees if the girl was successful. Anyone know iwhat this was called? think this was called dutch skipping ahhh happy days

2 balls with all the different rhymes and throws
and not really a toy but a large piece of wool, elastic or string where 2 people (girls usually) would stand inside pulling it taut and another girl would stand on it and make a pattern. The wool would start at the girls' ankles then go to the calves then knees if the girl was successful. Anyone know iwhat this was called? think this was called dutch skipping ahhh happy days

We used to play this with elastic, I think it was called French Skipping

My youngest (aged 22) has announced that he wants battling tops for Christmas. He says the game is going for about £25. If only my brother hadn't thrown away his battling tops when he got fed up of it.........

I remember french skipping and two balls with uppy overs and under arm, playing on my own throwing the balls at the wall or playing with friends when we had a caller who would shout out uppy over or under arm as we threw two balls to each other trying to get one of us to drop the ball. The dropsy would the become the caller.

I remember the baby bouncers and those four wheel baby walkers the kids had. the three wheeler red and yellow trikes with peddles on the front wheel and a small horse on wheels that was made of some sort of indestructible red plastic...
Cowboy guns and plastic soldiers where pretty popular then as well, some thing you don't seem to see a lot of now...
I also remember some Knights with interchangeable head, shields,and bodies.
There was also some cowboys that you could take off horses with very uncomfortable looking spiked saddles...

Yes and yes to the above two posts !The useless bits of wool plait were known as 'French knitting' ! I can remember making the pom poms with bits of card too !
The pieces of folded card and brown paper that produced a bang reminded me of stuff you used to get free in comics.Can you remember rushing to get the latest edition to get the free gift, usually a plastic Kazoo or something !!

Weren't they called 'Thunderclaps'?

And I had a yellow 99er yoyo - I'm sure that was in the 50s. :confused: I could never do tricks with it.

I used to make a lot of Airfix kits and these: cotton reel tanks (http://www.instructables.com/image/FDK3XBVF3AQ37MF/Cotton-reel-tanks.jpg).

Always liked my Hornby Train set and Scalextric and not forgetting Action Man

jacko roller skates

What about all those lovely guns and bow and arrows spud guns were a proper treat used to shoot plastic cowboys and soldiers with them all. The girls had washing lines for skipping and used lots of un pc rhymes whilst large groups of them took turns to skip. :D

Man from U.N.C.L.E. sets,gun,triangular I.D. badge,shoulder holster,fastened to a carboard backing showing pictures of 'Napoleon Solo' and 'Illya Kuryakin',all carefully wrapped in plastic which cut your fingers as you furiously tore the wrapping off.

I used to make a lot of Airfix kits and these: cotton reel tanks (http://www.instructables.com/image/FDK3XBVF3AQ37MF/Cotton-reel-tanks.jpg).

Yeh i used to make these,all the above post bring back some lovely memories.

Sorry JOHN HABBS,didnt mean to offend..:)

tiny tears dolls....

all I ever wanted was a tiny tears.....never got one though :(

all I ever wanted was a tiny tears.....never got one though :(

I had one Shaz, my Mum used to take me to Barnsley Market where they sold all the different outfits for it. I also remember making my doll a skirt by cutting the top of a pair of white leather boots that everyone used to wear.

It fitted perfectly.

I had one Shaz, my Mum used to take me to Barnsley Market where they sold all the different outfits for it. I also remember making my doll a skirt by cutting the top of a pair of white leather boots that everyone used to wear.

It fitted perfectly.

you make me sooo jealous jane ....... :(

you make me sooo jealous jane ....... :(

I'm sorry Shaz.

Do they sell them now?

If so I'll buy you one so you can re-live your childhood,:love:

I bought my daughter one in early eighties..................... do they still pee like they did in the seventies ....:D

I used to make a lot of Airfix kits and these: cotton reel tanks (http://www.instructables.com/image/FDK3XBVF3AQ37MF/Cotton-reel-tanks.jpg).

Yeah, me too, although the design was a little different using a match stick rather than a pencil. They died with wooden spools for sewing cotton as you can't make them with the plastic spools.

all I ever wanted was a tiny tears.....never got one though :(

It was a "Tressy" doll I always longed for.

http://www.tressydoll.com/page2.htm

she was a "teenage" type doll which had a section of hair that you could "grow" or "Shorten" by pushing buttons on her tummy and back.

she looked quite similar to early "Sindy" or "Barbie" dolls, but was a little bigger at 15 ½ inches tall, (Barbie and Sindy dolls were 11½ inches tall)

Having said that, I did have one of these dolls.

http://crissyandbeth.com/Play.html

(look at the fourth picture down, the doll called "Jeaner". Mine had 3 wigs, a short brown style, a medium auburn one, and a longer blonde one. rather imaginatively {!} I called her "Wiggy" )