Toys you remember from your childhood Christmas

A post office set, a typewriter and usually a painting by numbers set.

Oh yes always a paint box, an annual usually Bunty or Judy, but the best thing was a kaleidoscope or a board with a star on it covered in holes which you put coloured beads into to make shapes.

I was an incredibly lucky child. My father was the director of a massive department store in London. We'd go along on a Sunday and play real shops.

As for toys I tended to get everything I wanted. The only thing ever denied me was a real tiger cub.

I took that quite badly

Yes!! Mary Mouse books I remember those.

Noddy books of course, and a Chicks Own annual plus the Lucy Attwell.

Always a new doll. One year a lovely new dolls pram?

I really wanted Tippy Tumbles and one night my brother told me to follow him, he showed me underneath Mum and Dad's bed and there were loads of toys hidden and there was a Tippy Tumbles, I was really excited but it spoilt it for me on Christmas day and I swore I'd never go snooping again.

A pink witch bicycle.

A dolls house my father made, I was so annoyed when he was in the attic for several evenings and I wasn’t allowed to join him, he was making the dolls house.

A China doll, mum hand made all the beautiful clothes.

I remember a paint box once - it came from Father Christmas. Yes, burnt umber and crimson lake, I’m sure someone will remember the others.

There was once a School Friend Pets Annual (1959?) which I loved, not from FC though, he usually only brought little things. Was so happy to find exactly the same in a 2nd hand bookshop some years ago.

We always had one of those squeaky blow things in our stockings, a tangerine, and a pink sugar mouse.

I do remember a toy post office - and of course the set of children’s stationery for the obligatory thank you letters!

Always a John Bull printing set.
Once a tiny sewing machine, it was quite useless and Milly Molly Mandy books, preceded I think with an odd shaped book, long and narrow about Mary Mouse.

Oh, I remember having a little red piano made of wood Shinamae, and the paintboxes. I also had oil painting by numbers, remember one of Tower Bridge.
Then there was a little plastic carry cot with a zip up cover and a baby doll to go with it. My aunt always knitted me a jumper too.

My Aunt used to buy me a little basket with balls of wool and a dolly peg,hated it,but got one every year.
Loved everything else especially satsumas/nuts and mince pies.
And then there was the Queens speech followed by Elvis.