What was your childhood cuddly toy called? ?

Teddy Growler. He’s now lost his growl.
The small one eyed, one eared bear on the right belonged to my husband. A home made war time bear, Ted was got at by the family dog when he was very young.

Mine was called Panda for obvious reasons. He had a wooden nose which I chewed. I still have him, in a very sorry state now.

Like some others I don’t remember having a soft toy at all. However, I had a hard dolly called Ann who I loved fiercely! How few toys we had back then, compared with today. I wonder what we did all day.

Teddy Ursula and her sister, Sally.

They are here in honourable retirement.

I too had a golliwog. His name was Billy. I talked to him as if he was another child. One day as my mother was coming downstairs she heard me say, "I think that's enough now, don't you Billy?" When she came into the kitchen she saw that I had rubbed nearly half a pound of butter in my hair! It took weeks to get it out completely!

oh yes, - mine was (and is) Teddy too. I still have him. He had several surgeries carried out by my granny to be stuffed with old nylons. Granny made him several outfits which I still have too. They are all apron style out of different left over fabrics but my favourite was always a green bit of satin with a colourful border stitched on.

I also had a little Ted but I also had a Bruno

Oddly, I loved my dolls, but they didn't have names

Bonzo he was a St. Bernard. I bled on him after having a tooth out and he was replaced by Bruno but it wasn't the same x

Tiny tears doll. She was given her bottle of water. She then wet her nappy

I had a very hard, solid teddy, imaginatively called Ted. He became very threadbare, but I loved him. He was handed on to my son when he was small, who decided one day, that he needed a bath. That was fine, but drying him by sitting him on the fire guard (we had an open fire) was not very successful. He ended up very singed before I noticed what was happening. Poor Ted was never the same, and ended up in the bin when we moved house.
I do still have a few other teddies from my childhood, and I’m 72. You have made me feel quite nostalgic, so I’ll be finding them in the attic later. I wonder if my grandchildren would like to play with them??

I did have a teddy when I was a very little girl and after I'd recovered from some childhood disease - my mother can't remember what it was - the doctor told her to burn him, so she did!
When I was in my twenties I went out with a man who when he heard this story took me to a teddy bear shop in London and bought me a beautiful Merrythought bear. The bear is called Digby and is with me still. I married the man and we have just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversay!

I had a female golly made by my mum who was dressed like the maid in Gone With the Wind. Wish I still had her though she’d be frowned on now.
There were teddies around but don’t remember any being mine. Think I had a panda.

Sheba after the queen of. She was a rubber doll stuffed with kapok and a sort of plastic head. Her fingers and hands and then her feet and legs all gradually perished and fell off. I told everybody she had leprosy not that I knew what that was, but did have a strong Methodist upbringing.

Somebody in my family knitted a soft toy for us 3 children and if was christened Teddy Tail as it had a wonderful tail. He lasted for years and I now find myself wondering what happened to him. One of my 2 sisters hated soft toys but I didn't find that out.until just a few years ago.

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My only soft toy was a teddy bear called Bertie, I don't know who chose his name, not me.
I loved him though.
Was there a Royal called Bertie?

King George V1 was known as Bertie.

I had a big teddy bear during the war which my father had found in the street. I played with it every day but not nicely. I liked to hurl it into the air and did this relentlessly until its eyes fell out. Then one day it vanished. Apparently the bear's real owner had been found and my dad gave it back. I don't remember being given a replacement but as it was wartime maybe toys were hard to come by.
When my daughter was little we gave her a baby doll which she used to push in her doll's pram when we went to the shops. One day a shop assistant asked her what the doll's name was. My daughter said "Baby Jesus." The assistant gave us a funny look.

Teddy

never had one

Not a toy, but a square wooden scarf called NiNi. Mom had a new one off a SIL every Christmas, so I would have the old one as my cuddly, and of course it smelled of her, wonderful.

He was called Brandy.

Yes I bought a second hand teddy at our local jumble sale primary school it wasn't very big but I loved him I called him bill after my dad

I had a peculiar creature hand-knitted by the kind lady down the road. I called him Kangabun and he was very well loved. Still got him -wrapped in a big soft old hankie in the drawer.

I had a bear called Brenda from when I was a baby, she only had one arm (I can't remember how she lost it). When I was about 10 I thought the family across the road were poorer than me (I am not sure they were as we were pretty poor) but I gave Brenda to them. I regretted it immediately. Then my cousin gave me a bear called Bob to replace her, I still have Bob, he is very threadbare but sits in my bedroom still and he must now be about 70 years old. (The attached picture is our family our collecting bluebells, I am in the middle with Brenda).

Here is picture mentioned!