retro toys..they dont make them like they used to!

I've still got Eileen the Crolly Doll that I won in a school fair-day raffle back in 1969.....she resides in the attic at the moment, but I know she's still there!! (for you youngsters, the dolls were made in a factory in Crolly, Co Donegal, hence the name!).

Same doll visited the doll's hospital more times than I care to remember with dislocated arms (ouch!).

I see from a quick google that Crolly dolls are now porcelain - Eileen definitely isn't, she was the standard doll plastic of the time!

A Hornby train set of a steam engine and 3 wagons with CIE markings.
My 4 year old son has inherited 4 shoeboxes of Matchbox/Corgi cars found in my mam's attic and I know there should be a huge box of Lego in the same attic somewhere.

I'm mad I don't have my old Sindys. My mother was a compulsive thrower outer of old toys:(.
I recently started collecting old annuals, my pride and joy is a Jinty 1977. That one was special to me 'cos my lovely nan bought me the same one for xmas that year, I can clearly remember her handing it to me and the slight disappointment at getting a book as a gift instead of a toy. It turned out that I enjoyed it very much and re-read it many times. I'd love to have kept the original one.