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I m not sure how old you need to be for the name Britains Toys to cast something of a magic spell. But Britains soldiers, cowboys & indians and anima…
I m not sure how old you need to be for the name Britains Toys to cast something of a magic spell. But Britains soldiers, cowboys & indians and anima…
I m not sure how old you need to be for the name Britains Toys to cast something of a magic spell. But Britains soldiers, cowboys & indians and anima…
Britains Toys were local boys
Posted by Hugh on November 13, 2020 at 18:44 in History of Harringay
I m not sure how old you need to be for the name
Britains Toys to cast something of a magic spell. But Britains soldiers, cowboys & indians and animals were as much a part of my childhood as the x-box is for kids today. So, I was interested to discover recently that Britain s was a local firm.
Britains was established by William Britain (1828-1906) a brass finisher of Birmingham, England, probably in the late 1860s. Official records sow him still working as a brass finisher until at least the mid 1860s. By 1871 he had moved wit his family from Barnsbury Grove to a house at 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise. The census of that year is the first record I can find where he is described as a toy maker. He gradually established a cottage industry involving the family, producing ingenious mechanical clockwork toys, but these were too expensive to be mass produced.