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Remembering Pickering's: the York toyshop that put Aladdin's Cave to shame


Pickering s toyshop at 28 High Ousegate. Picture: Derek Reed
MOST of us are probably still wrapping up those last-minute Christmas presents or - the younger ones among us, at least - waiting with feverish impatience for December 25 to dawn so we can tear them all open and scatter the wrapping paper across the living room floor.
One reader, however, has been casting his mind back to the 1940s and 1950s - the days when toys were toys, rather than digital gadgets or smartphone apps.
When Derek Reed was a lad in the 1940s and 1950s, there was one place that children were always drawn to like bees to a honeypot as Christmas Day approached: Pickering s toyshop at 28 High Ousegate. ....

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