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One christmas i has stilts and a pogo stick' a wembley Spacehopper and a chocolate money bank that never got refilled with Cabury minatures

would a child of today know what to do with a pogo stick? or Clackers.... who remembers Clackers?..... Dont answer that!!

Jess Nath had a pogo stick but instead of a spring has a ball to bounce on. You can still get those Money Boxes as two eldest had them for chrimbo a few years ago.

A big orange space hopper! xxx

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oooh ! I remember clackers !! I also had a big orange spacehopper ! One xmas I got a Tressy doll, with a section of hair that grew E x

Mr.Potato head... and the one who had plastersine (spelling!) hair that grew and you could cut it off. xxxf

i had a Stylophone! remember them

Jess My daughter and I went to a seventies night a while ago and she took her clackers with her! After the meal she put them on the middle of the table and everyone wanted to play with them.They were great fun,( even a few sore wrists) but a trip down memory lane for her age group. Maureen x

Shaker Makers!!! I used to love making them, had the flintstones and wombles I think Julie xxx

Tiny tears teeny tiny tears a doll called Amanda Jane - a doll about 6'' high- she was my favourite for years

Must admit I remember clackers. ----------How about Weebles (wooble but they don't fall down). Kind of like me now. teeeeeeeeeeheeeeeee Deb

Over the years (1980's) I was given, a snorks (smurf like caricter that lived in the sea) space hopper, a cadbury's 2p chocolate money box which you could get the refil chocolates for, an egg laying thing (raindear I think like the easter chickens), yo-yo, a metel wire thing and spining top that tou made the top spin over and under the wire by squezzing the wire, match box cars and garage (dad brought it home - and I was an only child at the time!), a care bear (fun-shine bear), a care bear money tin, a care bear cassette player...................can't remember anything else. My brother bourght a second hand pogo stick a few years ao when they were back in fasion (red and yellow AND old - to me and him at least!) What about Cabbage Patch Kids and Trolls?? Rocking Horses or Prams (not the little buggys - I mean the ones tha are as big folded down as when there not), Ironing boards and trains.

Lunor Trolls are often avaliable on this site Elaine x LOLOLOL !

A Tressie Doll (came out about the same time as Sindy) that had hair that 'grew' (out of a hole in the middle of her head!) Bev x

I remember my kids having clackers - they would probably be banned now in case they injured somebody! For myself I remember a dolls pram, second hand, a trike with solid wheels (a large one) second hand (we are talking 1940s here. Then my dad made me a super large dolls house with lights that worked fully furnished with walls decorated with wallpaper, carpets etc. I had a farmhouse with (lead) animals, dolls and always an annual, Enid Blyton books Famous Five, Secret Seven and later Abbey Girl books, Katy books, Rupert books, I loved books. (stll do of course). Ann Glos

Good question Jess! I try to buy my grandaughter a few pressies that I had or would have liked when I was a child. For instance this year I've bought her a space hopper (not the orange one) but a space hopper! I've also bought her a slinky, full set of Beatrix Potter books, some 'special' string to play cats cradle and a ball and ring to put round her ankle - we used to use our mums old tights and a tennis ball! Debby P.S. I've just taken delivery of a personalised jigsaw for my grandaughters baby brother and they've spelt his name wrong so they now have to send me a new one!

Does anyone mind if I play with their clackers? ;o)) Ken xx

Ken have you not got your own set to play with

i had tiny tears, her head split tho, i dont know how as i wuvved her , wouldnt have hurt her, remember clackers, friends had um in our street, i had a pair of extendable metal roller skates with the lace up strap across front of foot