We've done a flit to Filey to celebrate our Jasper wedding (42 years).
The first time we visited this East Coast town was back in 1989 with our 5 year old daughter and her mate, when I'd just started collecting after seeing Batman at the flicks. In a coastal grocers was a rack of cheap blister carded toys and I recall getting two Spider-Man sets, a pistol and some rubbery suckers most likely by Gordy or Larami. They were contemporary things but I was so chuffed and kept them for years (can't find pics sorry).
Decades on and several visits later I again got some toys in Filey.
A big bag of old Airfix soldiers. £3.
And in a pleasantly surprising vintage toy shop called Timeless Toys ( closes permanently at Xmas) I was genuinely spoilt for choice.
A Corgi Captain Pugwash set caught my eye, all new to me, but in the end it was two undressed action dolls and an incomete FAB1 that were bagged. £15 the lot.
LtoR:
Lion Rock 1975 - Little Big Man?
Dinky FAB1 to restore over Winter
Matchbox 1973 Fighting Fury with hand action
The owner is selling up so get down there if you're on the Yorkshire East Coast.
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Congratulations on your special day!
ReplyDeleteNice finds. Did you check Capt. Peg Leg's wooden leg for a treasure map?
Only been to Filey once, as a sixth former in 1977, on a geology 'O' level field trip, to look at, and draw, the coastal landscape there.
ReplyDeleteThat wonderful little shop reminds me of similar ones I saw in Torquay and Bath on my visits to the UK.
ReplyDeleteThese places really are becomimg a thing of the past as their owners AND their clientele (us!) gracefully age!
We can but cherish that they ever existed and wistfully remember their passing...
...I'm excited at the challenge of a new roof for 'er Ladyship's Roller.
-That's Rolls Royce, Parker...