{"id":878,"date":"2020-04-28T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discover2learn.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:15:08","slug":"find-out-about-the-history-of-the-british-toy-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/read\/find-out-about-the-history-of-the-british-toy-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out about the history of the British Toy Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The first British Toy and Hobby Fair was organised by Jack Watkins MBE for the British Toy Manufacturers Association and took place in Brighton from 22nd-26th February 1954.<\/p>\n<p>In 1954, Sooty became a Chad Valley hand puppet, and Painting by Numbers, Scrabble and Matchbox vehicles were big hits at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next two years, the fair moved to Olympia and then to Earls Court at the British Industries Fair. Celebrity-linked games came to the fore with Stanley Matthews recommending New Footy Table Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, the decision was taken to move back to Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>In 1958, the Hula-Hoop was the toy of the moment, Plasticine celebrated 50 years and Frisbees took off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Path\u00e9 newsreel showing what was on offer in the Toy Fair in 1958<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6vuEmGySmc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyfair.co.uk\/look-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Toy Fair<\/a> for more about its history from the 50s to present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first British Toy and Hobby Fair was organised by Jack Watkins MBE for the British Toy Manufacturers Association and took place in Brighton from 22nd-26th February 1954. In 1954, Sooty became a Chad Valley hand puppet, and Painting by Numbers, Scrabble and Matchbox vehicles were big hits at Christmas. Over the next two years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}