Now I'll say this here, because by the time
you've seen the images it won't be worth saying - if you live within range of
this shop you should try getting there at least once a year, if for no other
reason than it's for charity, and kids' charities at that! But if you live in
London try getting up there more regularly, the stock literally changes daily,
if not hourly.
A charmingly olde-worlde shop-front,
hand-painted and looking like something from a fair-ground welcomes you to 81
Junction Road (they've moved from 99), up there in North London where it's not
as grim as you may have been led to believe (it's central really!) and - as you
can see - the window is just stuffed with toys!
Going round the shop, we first look back at
the left hand (from the outside) window
The shelving unit seen in the corner of the
previous shot is loaded with larger figurines and smaller action figures.
Mostly Disney but there are others.
Then the most amazing four shelves run
right down the let-hand wall, I haven't shot the top shelf, it was boxed,
stand-alone stuff, train sets, Sylvanian
houses, that sort of thing.
What can you spot! I think half the back
catalogues of Phidal and the Disney Stores were to be found about the shop!
. . . and more . . . how did I miss that Puss in Boots? It is a bit on the big
side, but too cool for pet-training school! . . . and a bear . . . in
sunglasses, and all twelve of the Seven-Dwarves
(?) . . . and a black cat . . . Supreme
knight . . . Betty Boop . . . or is
it Jessica Rabbit? . . . and . . .
. . . there's more! Traditional sweet-jars
filled with stuff I never even asked about, imagine if you could buy "A quarter of Go-Go Crazy Bones please"!
A decent selection of kid's books was also
on display, I would imagine a lot go to the projects, but where there are
duplicates from one of the library projects, for instance, they can raise cash
in the shop?
Lily was our host on the day, she too was
surrounded by toys, shelves and shelves of toys! While the shop was full of
excited kids spending their holiday money, although choice was the problem; too
much choice!
Larger toys, games, puzzles, sets . . .
Baskets and tubs of farm and zoo and
dinosaurs and chinasaurs, from very small to err . . . gihuge; which is the
technical term which comes just under ginormous!
Couldn't resist the mini Dimetrodon and the
Disney princess is a fine date for a
25mm Napoleonic! The rat is a pencil-top! I managed to damage the snowman
bringing him home, but he is resin which I hadn't realised or I would have
taken more care, I think his right arm is on Paul Morehead's kitchen floor!
The horse is a MEG 'Pony in my Pocket' and
will go well with the Britains-Corgi-Playcraft
riders and show-jumpers, while the US marine, 2 firemen and cop are
'chinatroop' rack-toy gap-fillers, which leaves a Dalek, Papo princess and Crescent gun - bargain!
This shop is so worth a visit . . . and
it's for CHARITY!
Web.
- www.thetoyproject.co.uk
eMail
- donations@thetoyproject.co.uk
+44
(0)7590 256 530 (from abroad)
07590
256 530 (UK)
SHOP
81
Junction Road, Archway N19 5QU
OPENING
TIMES
Mon–closed
Tues–Saturday
10am-6pm
Sunday–closed
Registered
Charity - 1164282
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