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    Wondered if anybody on this site remembers any of the toy and model shops listed on my blog? The list is mostly a line from Middlesex-Surrey-Hampshire-Dorset, but there must be someone out there that recognises something. After all, I cannot be the only person to visit Woolcos in Boscombe…

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    #121767
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    My grandparents lived almost opposite Woolcos and the Hampshire Centre (in Bournemouth strictly speaking) so I went there almost weekly for many a year. I got lots of Airfix ho/oo and 1/32 stuff, they also had Matchbox and Dinky too.

    The toy shop outside (next to Rumbelows!) also had Airfix,Timpo and Dinky……..

    There was a newsagents, Mannings, opposite Woolco, on the other side of Castle Lane, where my dad bought me my first box of Airfix soldiers…….German Infantry, I got the British Commandos soon after.

    "Even dry tree bark is not bitter to the hungry squirrel"

    #121793
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    Mine lived in Ringwood and we used to visit Woolcos as an outing when it rained, so I used to pray for at least one rubbish day during the summer so I could fleece my parents. Even today we refer to a warm rainy day as a Woolcos Day.

    Couldn’t remember the name of the toy shop, but I tended to use that for Britain’s. They had them all lined up in a glass cabinet right in front of the door! From memory they supplied me with the Airfix gun emplacement and Matchbox 1/32 US Infantry.

    I counted it as Boscombe because we only went to that side, so my geography is clearly a bit out! We used to park in Chessel Avenue to go into town. The flower shop on the corner of Chessel used to be a newsagents and I scored a box of Action Packs Foreign Legion from there.

    Its alarming that I can remember where I bought my stuff from… 🤓

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