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My favourite dolly was called PATSY....
she was named by me after a lovely little girl who lived next door.

I used to say that I would call my little girl Patsy..... but didn't. I WAS only 6 after all.

Deanna X

I had big Ted and little Ted, Big ted fell apart years ago, but I still have little Ted, though he is looking poorly these days.

I also had a black velvet cat called Pussy Cat Willum. And my Gran also knitted me a Golliwog, and she knitted another one for my son. We both loved our Gollys to bits.

MY TEDDY WAS CALLED TEDDY EDDIE AND I HAVE STILL GOT HIM HE IS 34 THIS YEAR AND HE STILL SITS ON MY BED BOTH MY CHILDREN HAVE PLAYED WITH HIM I'LL KEEP HIM FOR EVER
CLAIREX

So string me up!! Toys were very scarce in the Forties but Mum found a knitting pattern for a Golliwog. He was an exact replica (all the right colours) of the ones on the jam pots. He was just Golly and as was the way of loved knitted toys, he just fell apart eventually.

Linda

Teddy Edward was waiting in my cot for me when I was born. He is white with a dickie bow round his neck. He was also waiting in the cot ready for when my little boy was born. I will put him back in the loft soon to wait for any grandchildren that happen along in the future.

Also in the loft I have a variety of girls toys, silver cross coach built dolls pram, dolls, blackboard & easel etc.

My 3 main dolls were Linda, who could walk, and two baby dolls, one with blond hair and one with ginger hair who I thought were my twins. They are called Mandy and Samantha.

Well, I won't be having any more babies myself so I hope I get a little granddaughter one day......................

Dianne xx

I had a big black doll called Topsy and my teddy was called Big Ted (I know, not very original)

Topsy still lives in my loft (I can't bear to part with her) but don't know what happened to Big Ted.

Also had a Little Ted, but he fell to bits and is long-gone!!

donald duck my brother gave me

and tiny tears my grandad gave me

mum knitted donald a whole new body one christmas cos he was so loved and been on so many adventures (one by himself when i left him in a cafe, mum went back and lady kept him safe under counter for me) he was worn out , had hole in his chest, then he had new life thanks to mums knitting needles, spare body parts her expertese

I still have my doll Eileen, 48yr old, lipstick belly button, chewed fingers but would never part with her lol.got a Brenda too she is about 40.

Marion

Oh dear... I'd better not tell you what I had, or what I called him! I'd be strung up!!
I just loved him so much, and when I got married and was moving abroad, my little sister was crying so much I gave him to her to look after for me! She took him to bed every night until she left home to do her nurses training when she was 19. I'm not sure what happened to him then. I must ask her.

Love

Daff xx

My teddy was just Teddy....he used to growl when tipped forward. I still have him...he's 51yrs now, has lost the growl and has a stiff face, where I used to try and feed him flour and water mixed together.

Misty xx

had a doll called David who I named after a gt uncle that died before I was born but who the family talked about a lot and a black doll called Ambrose ,not sure why I picked that
-----------oh and I had a large rubber duck that I called----------pigeon !
sadly all long gone
Bunny x

i was given a teddy when i was bor and he is called Little Ted.....but i had a doll and i called her Family(i've no idea why)and my eldest daughter used to play with her and she called her Doll Doll

Well this is wierd, I had a pink teddy bought me when I was very small, and I wouldn't have thought he would have had a name from me, unless my parents chose one, or I chose one when I could talk. The chap next door was called Keith altho I don't remember him much as he was a lot older than me so left home for Canada before I was a teenager, and I didn't know him well.
Poor Keithy is gone now, I think my Mum probably threw him out when I moved away for a while (she threw lots of my things away without asking or telling me. which upset me).
The funny thing is I am now living with someone of the same name lol He isn't pink and fluffy tho.
Lizx

panakalty but she is shortened to panak

i still have her lol

the story was i had watched panoccio at skool and couldnt remeber the name of the film so called her panakalty parents thought it was amusing so it stuck lol

I had a Tiny Tears doll called 'Bubba Ninny Mouth' and a teddy called 'Light Bulb'.
Bubba Ninny Mouth is no longer with us, but I've still got Light Bulb.

Teddy was called Ted and I still have him - he was 71 last Christmas and looks every day of it [hope I don't] and my black doll was called Farina - can't remember names of my other dolls. I also had an imaginary friend for years and she was called Panglina - parents never knew where I got the name from but one day my Dad was putting some horse bets on and there was a horse running called Panglina!! Can't remember if it won or not!

Vimmy (short for Vimto - the person who gave him to me worked with my mum and always had Vimto on her shopping lists). I've had him since I was 6 months old so he's a bit threadbare now but very much loved.

I had a cat called 'Immy Wivrum'! lol

He was not a toy, but a rather battered black Tom cat, he would let me put him into my dolls pram, cover him up & push him round the garden. Sometimes he even let me put a bonnet on him .

I was a very imaginative child - my teddy was called Teddy!!

LW

as a child what was your teddy/doll called.

I had two, Boo Boo was a blue and white bear that dads RAF pal gave me and a Doll I had for my 2nd christmas called Mary.

Still got them both although Mars eye is glued open and her hairs a bit weird now and Boo Boo isnt blue and white now just a greyish colour