How lovely to meet up again with some of the Pollocks Toy Museum people at a party held last saturday in the Art Workers Guild, for chats, song, cake and a Toy Theatre performance of Jack the Giantkiller, with Jack Fawdry-Tatham appropriately enough as Jack.
The party included Pollocks Toy Museum Trustees, artist Emily Fairlie-Baker, printmaker and musician Seth Randall-Goddard, who composed a special song for the occasion, and Chair, writer and art historian Alan Powers. Three young men appeared to be gansey enthusiasts. The wondrous Toy Museum is resting at the moment, but it will rise again, as it has done in the past.
A few days after this event I walked past Pollocks Toy Museum, and was sad to see blinds drawn over the windows.
You can no longer go and visit Eric, the oldest Teddy Bear, or any of the other wonderful exhibits.
The Museum contents are safely stored for the time being, until new premises are found, but someone got left behind …
I do hope Pollocks Toy Museum will return. I took my little grandsons there recently and they loved it. It’s a great London institution.
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