The BBC Breakfast programme is featuring a family who are trying to buy only British made goods. How good to see that idea back I thought as I watched, reminded of the We’re Backing Britain campaign of the late 60s. … Continue reading
The Mulberry Bush Spring and Summer catalogue of wooden toys and games is on its way. If you are already a customer one should be arriving by post in the next few days. If you would like one please enter … Continue reading
What are our best selling toys this Christmas? Some of the wooden toys we offer are best sellers year after year. In pride of place has to be the fantastic Mini Cakes and Stand which has been immensely popular for … Continue reading
There’s going to be a shortage of toys this Christmas - so says BBC Breakfast today. Well for the must-have, toy-of-the-year Barbie Roller Girl or Transformers Movie Leader type of toy that may very well be true. The big distributors … Continue reading
What a relief! After several months of hard work our new autumn / winter catalogue of children’s toys is not only printed but is now in the post to our customers. We think it’s the best yet, but we are … Continue reading
It may seem incredible to be thinking about Christmas in the middle of the summer (what summer ?!?) but that’s what we do every year at this time as we finalise our autumn & winter catalogue. All the toy manufacturers … Continue reading
When my wife and I started Mulberry Bush twelve years ago our aim was to build a collection of traditional toys and games that Grandparents would want to buy for their grandchildren. Lots of wooden toys, not too much plastic, … Continue reading
Toy collecting, especially antique tin and wooden toys, as an investment is a relatively recent phenomenon. It started to get serious in the mid-60′s with prices and demand being driven largely by interest from the USA. By the mid-eighties the … Continue reading
I’ve taken a close look at our recent sales statistics to compile this list of traditional wooden toys that continue to be immensely popular: Jacobs Ladder: This is a very popular traditional folk toy consisting of wooden blocks that are … Continue reading
There’s a nicely written piece about traditional games on Time Magazine’s website with the author describing how he and his primary schoolmates played marbles in the playground in the 1970s. No doubt he thinks that makes him sound old, but … Continue reading
