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Letterbox joins Mulberry Bush

Letterbox joins Mulberry Bush

We are delighted to announce that we have acquired the Letterbox brand and website www.letterbox.co.uk from the Tobar Group, with effect from 31st October 2013, and will be incorporating Letterbox into Mulberry Bush.  Letterbox was founded 25 years ago in Cornwall and offered a range of traditional toys and childrens’ toys and gifts very similar to our own, with a specialisation in personalised children’s gifts. Mulberry Bush already includes many of the Letterbox favourites in our own range and, whilst…

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Can your child swim a length?

Can your child swim a length?

Interesting news today from the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) warning, according to the BBC, that more children may drown if they are don’t have the recommended annual number of hours of swimming lessons at school. This is the sort of news that Breakfast TV like to report on, showing children – who must have got up at an unearthly hour to have their moment on TV – practising swimming, jumping in and diving. In the report they did make the very…

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Warehouse Sale | 2nd Day Cancelled

Warehouse Sale | 2nd Day Cancelled

We’re sorry to disappoint anyone who was planning on coming on Thursday 23rd May but we have had to take the decision not to open our warehouse sale for a second day.   Today, the first day, was a great success – to the extent that most of the items had sold by the end of the morning.  We have so few sale items left that we think you’d have a wasted journey tomorrow. This was our first ever sale at…

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Toys Made in Britain?

Toys Made in Britain?

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. Then I choked on my cornflakes when I reflected that, if they were looking to buy toys for the couple’s young children they might be hard-pressed, remembering what we sell ourselves that is made in the UK which, I’m sorry to…

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50 Things To Do Before You’re 11

50 Things To Do Before You’re 11

Some of my best memories of childhood are of the adventurous things I did, many of them as a Boy Scout.  Some of them were daft, and some of them were definitely dangerous.  Climbing the chalk scarp slope at Boxhill in plimsolls and no rope.   Fighting a major fire on Headley Heath armed only with tree branches, until the fire brigade arrived.  And cycling 50 miles to Brighton (and back again) on a whim, without a map, just half a…

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Christmas Toy Prices

Christmas Toy Prices

Are children’s toys and Christmas presents about to become more expensive ?  Last week The Times carried an article suggesting that manufacturing costs in China were climbing as workers look for ever higher wages, and materials costs are rising too.  It seems certain that those costs will be passed on to Western consumers, and here at Mulberry Bush we’ve already seen a number of proposed price increases from importers.  Needless to say we’re negotiating hard to keep increases to a…

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Spring & Summer Catalogue now in the post

Spring & Summer Catalogue now in the post

Our Spring and Summer catalogue is now available and if you’re on our mailing list then you should receive your copy in the post in the next day or two. There are plenty of new toys,  loads of old favourites and lots of fun too! To get your own copy just visit this page

New Toys and New Catalogue

New Toys and New Catalogue

The Mulberry Bush autumn catalogue is printed and will be in the post to our customers in the next week or so.  With 225 new toys and eight more pages, it’s taken us quite a bit of work in the summer months but we’re very pleased with the result and we hope you will be too. Watch out for those new products becoming available to order on the website over the next few days as we receive stock.  And watch…

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Online Page-turn Catalogue for Mulberry Bush

Online Page-turn Catalogue for Mulberry Bush

We’re delighted that our Spring and Summer catalogue is proving popular with our customers but, if you haven’t seen it, you don’t have to wait for the postman.  Over the Easter weekend, we have introduced an on-line, page-turning copy of the paper catalogue on our website which has a number of helpful features.  You can see it here Every product in the catalogue links through to the corresponding page on the website, so if you like the look of something…

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Mulberry Bush Summer Catalogue now out!

Mulberry Bush Summer Catalogue now out!

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 your details on our catalogue request page and we’ll send you one and add you to our mailing list for future catalogues too. (UK only by post, but the whole range can be seen on the website) We have quite…

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