please empty your brain below |
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someone's got to say it, why not me? "a load of old pollocks", right? coat. get. leaving, etc ... |
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...how do you know nothing springs to life when no-one is watching DG? Surely that's what happens in all such places? |
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I remember visiting a similar, and fascinating, museum in Stratford-upon-Avon. Situated at the back of a toy shop, it was like Pollock's, except it was filled with teddy bears and puppets, including a Fozzie Bear from the Muppets, as opposed to old toys in general. Alas, I tried to visit again last year, but it had closed down for good. Shame... :-(. |
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Useless information. Did you know that the late Kenneth Horn was managing director of Chad Valley Toys? |
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Andrewh - much of the collection is now at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Was 'the bloke on the till' Peter Baldwin (was Derek Wilton in Coronation St)? Certainly there a little while ago. |
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Gordon - Didn't Gyles Brandreth own the Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon? |
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Kenneth Horne |
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The link to the (closed) Pump House Steam & Transport museum takes you to the site of the Pumphouse in Rotherhithe. Is it the one in Brentford which is closed, or was there another one in Rotherhithe? dg writes: Ah, sorry. The Pump House Steam and Transport museum is in Walthamstow - website here: http://www.leavalleyexperience.co.uk |
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Dave - yes, and he's patron of the theatre hence... |
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Bayko that brings back memories of my childhood. |
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Crikey, Bayko! I used to love playing with that when I went to stay with my Nan. I wonder what's happened to it all since she passed away last year. |
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I remember walking by Pollack's thousands of times when I lived in UCL halls around the corner on Charlotte Street. This was about five or six years ago when it was hardly ever open and at one point was threatened with closure. It always looks so fascinating, but since it never seemed open, friends and I would joke that it was a front for a secret government lair or whatnot. Glad to see that it's still there and the exhibition is interesting. |
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Bayko - can you imagine the reaction of the Health & Safety mob. The one that I really wanted at the time was tiny little bricks and some form of mortar to stick them together. Can anybody recall the name? A sign of getting old is going to a museum like this and thinking "I had one of those" |
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You can still get those building sets from Hawkins. |
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