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 toy maker of Birmingham, England, in about 1845. He moved his family to a house at 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise, and there gradually established a cottage industry involving the family, producing ingenious mechanical clockwork toys, but these were too expensive to be mass produced.