Some of our Sixties toys and novelties were distinctly of their time. Take the Smoking Monkey for instance! You remember, the seated plastic...

 After my true Halloween nightmare, a visit the the dentists this morning ( I had to ask for more numbing!)  I bobbed into the Posties to ma...

 I had to look twice at this toy sarcophagus on Ebay. I thought it was my beloved King Tut. It was described as being for pet burials! King ...

  I always love pictures of this toy as it so reminds me of my childhood. King Tut is the stablemate of a toy I adored, the skeleton version...

  I saw this on auction, a magnetic Lady in a bath and knew I'd had something similar as a kid, a sort of plastic toy charm from Ellisdo...

Not wanting to plug this set but if like me you liked Ellisdons Mail Order of Liverpool when you were a nipper then this maybe for you.  T...

The small plastic toys that shot out of this Christmas's crackers reminded me of those wonderful miniature knick knacks we had as a kid....

When I was a kid I used to buy stuff mail order from Ellisdons in Liverpool. They were a joke and novelty outfit and the kings of mail ...

I remember this as if it were yesterday, the Magic Brain Calculator. It was a novelty calculator and made of metal with a metal '...

Taking the dog out today I happened to smell my hands after handling his new ball. Rubber! It took me straight back to when I used to love ...

A small novelty toy I remember having in the early Seventies was a smoking monkey. I find the idea repulsive now but as a ten year old it w...

Did you used to get things by mail order as a kid? Sending off postal orders for stuff from the back of comics or catalogues? I loved t...