Barnsley Bounty

A mooch round Barnsley's charity shops this week was fun. 

My inexpensive haul this time: three built-up plastic kit aircraft, four lovely red vinyl fairy tale 45's including Cinderella narrated by Dickie Attenborough and a paperback by Leo Kessler. 

These will all be tidied up and form part of my winter sale on eBay, funds generated to finance my ongoing VHS project. 

The three empty video cases are for said project too. Trucks, the novel, is now part of my 80's pulp horror paperback shelf.

The old Waddingtons Ashore game is the Missusses for the Grandkids.

See anything you like? 

Easing round Elsecar

 A mosey round the huge Elsecar emporium, despite not buying anything, did throw up a few things to photograph.

A Tufty Club bendy. It must have been a bigger deal than I recall on TV, the Tufty Club. I've seen books, games and now a bendy! 

I had thought at first glance this was Tom Baker but it's Austin Powers of course.

This was Tom Baker though! 

Maybe the earliest Superman annual I've handled, this was dated 1958!

Lots of Hornby trains with many many red boxes items.

Two attractive early space age pictures.

Pennybrix? New to me. You?

And seen a few times in MC, old Tivvy, this one being a plastic savings box for a bank.

Anything you would have been interested in readers?

EASING ROUND ELSECAR EMPORIUM

 With  the final remnants of Christmas flickering like a fading star in the January gloom the Missus and me wandered round the Elsecar Antiques two-floor emporium near Barnsley this week, which is always fun. Still lots of ice everywhere after the recent northern cold snap. Brrrr!

I was looking for JR21 novelty toys. I once found a loose red JR21 Landrover here. Not this time but I did see a lot of interesting stuff. See what you think.

An original life-size version of one of my favourite Action Man miniature toys as a kid, the German WWII Stick Grenade! Bit macabre really.

A Vader computer mouse!

I am your cursor!

Part works!

I don't recall this X-Files monster. Do you?

What is the Gooney Bird?

A new old idea; boxes of bones and feathers. Would you buy one?

The second UNCLE book I saw in a week, the last being the Girl.

I do like these Stewardesses.

And a Jaunting Cart. What is Jaunting?

Tons of die-cast.

Keymen! Now that rings bell! Miniature men! Do you remember them?

Some fine Action Man and Star Wars.

and just to tempt me, a really nice Green Hornet Back Beauty at the end!

See anything you like?

ELSECAR ANTIQUES

 A trip this week to a nearby Barnsley emporium was fun. 

Amidst the thousands of send hand treasures on two huge floors I spotted a few for the blog.

This array of die-casts caught my eye.

The Zygons were very appealing at £10 each but I resisted, what with Santa on my case and all.

So too the Lunar war Chariot, just £6. Note the Joe 90 Car exhausts! And is that a SHADO2 missile?

Some old plastic as well, Manta Force and Batman, nicely boxed and encased in plastic boxes. I imagine these are high grade items for such care and attention.

Lethal Enforcer isn't a game I know. the protected Spawn action figure was £75, again, a high grade item.

The Toy Biz Joker Cycle took me right back to 1990 when I first started getting excited about toys again. It was the merchandise tsunami following Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 that did it. I recall standing in front of an aisle of discounted Toy Biz Batman toys at Pontefract's Poundstretcher, including a big stack of these Joker Cycles, and I was hooked.

I came away with these two cute Sixties Skiiers, who were going for a song in the bargain bin outside.

Anything you like here?

EASING ROUND ELSECAR

 A recent trip out to Elsecar antiques in Barnsley is always interesting. Two massive floors of collectables. I had a bad back so I walked quite gingerly.

As I slowly wandered I took some pics for Moonbase.

See anything you like?

I bought these two Superfast, 50 pence each.

Here's everything else.

Pentateuch LP!

and a few things in Doncaster!

No idea what these are!

Lady Penelope's luggage!

and my favourite choccies, Black Magic!