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I had a teddy called Toffee and a doll called Mary (very original that one)

Toffee got lost when I was about 5 in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill and was never seen again

Linda

Hi Gwyn, you are up early!
I think my Lesley doll was a rosebud one too.

I am sure there is another one in the box too, and I did have some of my much older cousin's dolls too but they have gone now, also a beautiful hand made doll's bed. My dad made me a doll's cradle from an orange box and strong brown paper, it lasted for years bless him. He was quite creative was my Dad.


The cuttings still look ok Gwyn, they haven't died anyway, and are in a pot in the unheated greenhouse being kept moist and still have the leaves on and the little bits that were growing seem to be a bit bigger. Our nerines are out in the garden but the new ones I put in a pot aren't doing anything, I seem to remember ours took a while to settle and flower so hopefully next year...
Will keep you posted on progress. Hope you and Dave are both ok.
Lizx

My teddy...once white sheepskin, was just Teddy. He's still around here minus one ear which is in the sewing box waiting to be fixed back on.

Dolls were
Violet....came dressed in mauve, similar to sister's Bluebell with blue dress.
Margaret.... never quite the same after a new wig from the doll's hospital.
Rosebud....named cos it said that on her back. She is here in bits, like Liz's doll, because her connecting rubber band perished.
My favourite doll was Sarah Jane...possibly named after an old lady friend of the family. I took Sarah Jane everywhere. She was blue fur fabric material with a cloth face. I was devastated when I found she had been given to a Scout's jumble sale when I was about 9.

Snowdrop, ( I liked flowers, ..Lol) was a tiny jointed doll about 4 inches tall. My aunt sewed and knitted clothes for her, ...all white, hence her name. The stitches were so small she must have used something like cocktail sticks. In later years, she sometimes graced the top of the Christmas tree, trimmed with a bit of tinsel.
She is also upstairs......

Gwyn

Nearly forgot. When I was about four or so, my mum bought my sister and I hot water bottle covers. Mine was a beige rabbit with a green dress, hers was a panda.

My sister went into hospital sometime after (must have been around 1988) with asthma and when she was picked up - by my dad - Mum realised Panda had been left behind.

So I kept Vimto (who was already mine, mentioned before) and my sister got Rabbit. He has a green dress and an apron but he is still a "he". (Hasn't been washed for about 15 years now so how my sister has such a flawless complexion I don't know. Maybe she became immune to him.)

I still have my black doll called Dinah, but all her elastic bands have perished so she is a bit sad, I also have Lesley which was a baby doll that was given to me at one of the works' parties I went to when my Dad worked at the brewery. Her arms and legs have come undone too but I did keep a note of a doll's hospital address so maybe one day they will get fixed again.
My walkie talkie doll was called Margaret but ended up bald cos I combed and washed her hair so often then gave her a trim lol I think she went into the bin with Keithy the ted, and also my doll called Susan who had a fabric body and arms and legs stuffed with something, and a plastic head, but I dropped her and bashed her nose in so I mended it with chewing gum lol

I still have all my son's toys and stuffed animals etc, he had lots.

My teddy was grey and called Billy Bear, after the friend of Dad's who gave him to me when I was born. I still have him, very threadbare now, in my loft.
I also had a panda called Percy, but I've no idea why he was called that. My daughter called her panda Snowy Toes, after a panda on a TV show I think.

I had a much loved Golly too with a red jacket and blue and white striped trousers. My Nan made him for me and he was loved so much he fell apart! My friend found an almost identical one in a shop in France and gave him to me as a birthday present a couple of years ago.

My first doll was called Baby Bunting and he was made of soft rubber, stuffed with cotton wadding. He came from America, but sadly perished :o( My grandmother in Canada sent me a replacement baby doll, also rubber, but similar to the vinyl dolls of today. He was called Timothy, but I don't know if he was named after anybody or if I just liked the name!

Sue
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My doll was called Susie. Still got her.

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My daughter had a little soft doll on a string that was kept in a little box, light a matchbox. She sucked it all day, and called it her boabby lol

Mine is Spivvy.......he is a knitted bear, but he doesn't look like a bear, he has a black body face and ears and red legs with black on the ends......his arms were the same until my Dad and I had tug of war with him when I was younger, and I lost the arms....his face is stitched on and he is threadbare now.....

I well remember hollering and screaming when he fell out of the sidecar once when we were in Scotland, and Dad had to turn the bike round and go back for him.......my Scottish Granny bought him for me when I was 6 months old at Christmas, and she was with us......he was one of a bunch of knitted toys made by the soldiers who were in the hospitals and made for sale.....

My OH bought me Piglet a couple of years ago, and he is lovely and soft, but he is not Spivvy....

Why Spivvy......well the London wide-boys and black marketeers were called Spivs, and used to wear brightly coloured ties......Spivvy had one too....

I still have my teddy from when I was a baby,hes called "Alfred" :-))
He looka a bit tatty,but I love him:-)
I did have several dolls,the only one I can remember is Tinkerbell.

I have a monkey called Monk who was given for my first Christmas 1967. He was white with plastic hands, shoes and face. He got so grubby, that my nan made him a whole wardrobe of clothes. He still sits by my bed. A few months ago I picked him up and a huge dead beetley thing fell out of his bottom!

For my first birthday January 1968, I wa given a tiny tears. She is called Sue. She has one arm, a cloudy eye that doesn't shut, matted red-brown hair from too much washing, no fringe and her skin has now gone a peculiar yellow-grey colour. She sits in the corner of my bedroom and looks like that evil Chucky doll.

Joanne x

I got a dolls pram for one Christmas but we didnt have the money for a Doll. My Nan had bought me a huge Turtle soft toy which I called Henry - I have no Idea why.... Amyway I pushed Henry round in my Dolls Pram for about 6 months to a year until I got my first Doll - either the following birthday or Christmas.

I still have Henry - he sits on the top shelf of my shoe wardrobe and I havent the heart to get rid.

I was not able to keep my toys. for a start there were so many, and I was an army baby....
We moved so many times that we could not take everything with us.
I do have a picture of my PATSY DOLLY, but not her.

I was able to keep my children's toys though. they now have them.
But my youngest son, his are still in the house, including his teddy.

I gave his teddy to our friend once when she was having a car boot... son went to to support her, and was stunned that I had given away his teddy!!
He bought it back, and brought it home..... to MY home not his!!
Son is 36 in December... what does he want a bloom in teddy for?
It is a in plackie bag in the attic!!

I will never have a nice *minimal * house!! ;-0(

Deanna X

I've kept all my sons soft toys - he doesn't know I have!! and just remembered I've got a pink rabbit [well what's left of a pink rabbit] which I had as a baby so he's about 71 too. He has no ears and is stuffed with straw, so basically it's a pink straw filled blob!!

My teddy given at my Christening and now 41 is a black and white panda called Teddy Bumper, I really love him lol!!


Caz xxx

I had a brown bear that my dad gave me & told me his name was Egbert no bacon...... never really understood why?

Tiny Tears was called Lavvy.......... on account she had a dress on with lavendar!!

Kids call theirs: Red Ted ( yes he's red) and Brown Bear ( yes he's brown )
lol

Much happiness
Debi -x-

Teddy! There there was Sue, Gilda and Topsy (so named as she was born in Blackpool in the blackout and thus was born black - according to my father!)

my black dolly was Suzie, can't remember the others...... too old lol. I had a dog called Butch who would let me do anything to him, he was dressed up in dresses and bonetts, put in a pram and pushed around, one day he came home with the kids up the road strung up with his feet tied to the pole safari style, he was a nutter loved it, would let you do anything to him but guarded me and would not let anyone near me that he did not know.

Lesley in Spain

I had a blue and white bear not very big and hes was called ting a ling i still have him and all the cards that he sent me for birthdays and christmas

julia xx

I had a golly as well still have it.

Also had big dog and little dog. big dog was pink and white and stuffed with straw, I know cis he is very worn in places and little dog was black and white and stuffed with foam.
still hav them as well

This thread has just reminded me of one that was given to me years ago called Timmy Turnpenny. I can't remember much about it barring the unusual name which wasnt chosen by me.

Susan
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