Do you remember what you used to call your dolls - and why?

I remember all my dolls, I loved them dearly. They were, in order from the first, Judy, Dinah, Vanessa, Lulu, Belinda, Caroline, Penny, Barbara and George Washington.

Mine were called Juliana, Belinda, Selina and Nugly, who was the oldest. She was quite big and not really nice looking.
Evidently my elder brother said, “She’s big an’ ugly.” I heard the nugly bit and that what I called her.

'Little Poppet' that was my dolls name. She was around 18 inches tall with long brown hair. She had a string in her back attached to a ring pull. when pulled she said different things. Twelve different sentences. My name is little Poppet, I do love you mummy, please read me a story, I'm so tired, can we play out, are we going shopping are some of the ones. I loved her so much. I still have her but she does not talk anymore. My mum let a neighbour's child play with her and she broke the string.

Yes, I had Patch too.

I had a doll with an old fashioned look, so I named her Emmeline, which seemed to suit. I was chief storyteller to my two younger sisters, so she had many adventures with Jacko, our naughty monkey and my teddy bear from my grandmother which my mother threw out on a move ?

I don’t know the name but we’ve just found my OHs daughters old dolls in the garage roof. They’re horrific. Big, with long hair and very strange faces. They’re a bit like Chucky. He’s taking them to her as soon as possible!!

I had a black rag doll which I called Topsy.

Short of inspiration, I called my dolls Elizabeth and Margaret. I probably wasn't the only little girl that used the princesses' names.

Mine was Rosebud. She had a very substantial pram which any mother with a baby now would be proud to own but it was of solid make and obviously not collapsible.

ElaineI I had a Patch too - she had brown hair and freckles! I'd forgotten all about her. I think I preferred her to Sindy really, but didn't play much with any dolls.

Michael - baby doll, Wendy, Fiona, Deborah, Sindy and Patch (Sindy's little sister). I always wanted a Tiny Tears but never got one.

Those teenage dolls from 1960 were like early versions of Barbie/Sindy but much larger, so they were easy to dress. The Barbie dolls of today are small and skinny, and some of their clothes are so tight my granddaughter can't dress them herself. They are cheap rubbish, but I suppose profit is the driving factor. They should make larger Barbie-type dolls, I'm sure people would still buy them.

Elusivebutterfly
I had to save my pocket money to buy my Sindy. I think she was 24 shillings.
She wasn’t as posh as Amberones though, she came in jeans and a striped T-shirt.

Rosebud and Deborah. Rosebud had lovely yellow hair.

I had a doll called Anne and another called Jean. I still have Anne, complete with clothes my mother made. My teddy disappeared in a move. I always wanted a Sindy teenage doll but my mother wouldn't let me. She didn't like them and said I was too old for a doll then.

I never liked dolls,but had a teddy i called ted and a golliwog i called Mr G and they both slept with me.
I wonder where they dissapeared to ?.

My favourite doll was called Flower. She was made of rigid plastic. I was always breaking her. Dad used to take her to the Dolls Hospital in Reading. I have a photo of me siting in my grandparent’s orchard holding her.

My dolls were called Angela, Pauline, Jane, Jenny. My last doll was called Kim, she had washable hair, it was black, I was never allowed to wash it though. I wish I had kept her, she had a lovely ‘new doll’ smell.

My teddy was called Keith.

Chestnut
I had one, she had pointy little breasts.

I still have my black doll who I named Pepe it's a crock one with a padded body made in Germany well over 60yrs old.

My first was a large doll called Rosemary who was like a toddler! Then my favourite later on was Jennifer who was a teenage doll with long blonde hair. I don't know if anyone remembers them (around 1960). She was like a large Barbie doll and had real stockings! I thought she was so glamorous. I don't know what make she was.

I didn’t play much with dolls, but had Ann and Theresa and before them a black doll I loved, who I think was Rose. I crawled into a clothes horse den with her and when we crawled out her face was completely bashed in. I still have Ann, who my DC think is really spooky with her staring eyes and moulded curls, and Edward my teddy, who has been much loved and has lost his voice box and much of his (straw?) stuffing.

Santa never did bring me that Tressie, or even a Sindy - my mother didn’t approve of “teenage” dolls.

Sara1954 I think I had a Sindy as well - she had a smart 50's style green skirt suit and black shoes for going into the city. Or maybe it was Down Town, not the city. The record 'Down Time' always reminds me of her - Cilla Black? Petula Clark?

That's about all I remember about her as I thought her suit was very smart. She had other outfits as well, and I used to dress her in all sorts of of weird things. My DM then had her fun undressing her and putting her into a proper outfit ?

Not a one - I was not a fan of dolls although I was given quite a few, nobody picked up that I didn’t play with them, or the elaborate dolls pram. However I adored my blue teddy bear and he was similarly loved by my children.

I can’t remember many but my first one was NumNum a soft bodied doll and I had a boy doll that I called Boy you can see how inventive I was
I had a black doll that went everywhere with me but I can’t remember what I called her