I visit Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop each time I am in London. It is one of my all-time favorite spots. The store is tiny, in an attic space of one of the old buildings there in the main area of Convent Garden. You climb this very narrow, windy staircase to the top floor where you find a couple (two to be exact) rooms chock full of paper theatres and such. There are also a few traditional toys along the wall (probably three feet in length) in bins. Other than that, there are paper doll books, paper theatres, paper pull toys, etc. Of course, I love it here. If there are more than four people in the place, it is hard to move. That's how tiny it is--which only adds to the charm.
The hub has now arrived and downloaded all my pics onto my computer. Finally! It brings all the excitement back. How much fun did we have? So much fun!!!
This is an absolute horrible way to blog. I have so many pictures that I want to share, but what a pain to upload them here. I am just going to list them with a little explanation. (But you must enlarge them if you can!)
A couple of their walls:
5 comments:
Rosa
In which case you might want to visit the Horniman Museum next trip: http://www.horniman.ac.uk/.
Unfortunately the V&A Museum of Childhood is closed until the autumn (US: fall). http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/.
MarkMcL
PS. Don't let on how I blew the "reserved English" stereotype! <g>
Charming post and great pictures! Thanks for sharing; I'll be in London next month and will make a beeline for that place!
oh they look great.
You are very fortunate to get to visit those places I can only dream of. Thanks for sharing!
Trish
http://pennyplain.blogspot.com
http://pollocks.trishymouse.net
Wow, Rosa, your box is fabulous and the story that inspired it is amazing. What a great way to recycle cards that I just can't seem to get rid of.
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