Grandma70s At the same time my grandfather, an undemonstrative Yorkshireman of few words and certainly not given to extravagance, gave me a magnificent toy farm complete with buildings, pigs, horses, cows, ducks, hens, the lot. There was even a milkmaid with her milking stool and buckets. I don’t expect girls of nine, almost ten, play with toy farms much now, but I loved it and kept it for years.
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! I had a set of farm animals which I LOVED more than any other toy. That was because I lived in the city but stayed on a farm every summer. So playing with the farm animals was my way of being back there. I would save my pocket money and go to the local toy shop just to buy ONE new animal at a time. I also had the milk maid, the shepherd, the farmer, the girl feeding the chickens. But I never had the farm buildings until I bought some for my own children 30 years later.