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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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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"
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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