Does anyone remember Kenyons toy shop on Bellhouse Road

[desmitch]

arthur didn't you knock about with Harry Wills?

[awoollen]

Originally posted by desmitch

arthur didn't you knock about with Harry Wills?

no it was eric wornes joe massy

[Shelagh]

Hi all, just found the site and I've really enjoyed reading this topic and reminicing. I still live in Wincobank and have lived in the surrounding area for 40 years. Kenyons toy shop brought back great memories, I bought all my daughters dolls house funiture there. Rons card shop is the same shop and Ron and his wife (presumably Kenyons) still run the place although his son manages most of it. Firth Park shopping area has altered so much in the last 10 years you wouldn't recognize it, unfortunately not for the better. I went to Hatfield House Lane Sec. which is now known as Firth Park Community Coll. it was until recently Firth Park Comp. a split site school combined with what used to be Firth Park Grammar.

 

Any questions I'll try to answer.

[SCENIC]

Hey Malc, I remember Kenyons. Used to try and drag me mother across Belhouse Road from her shopping to buy me a toy. Am a big boy now and found 'other' things to play with

[dowkeruk]

I used to get luminous paint at a shop on Bellhouse in the forties. Was this Kenyon's? Also those metal bombs in two parts that one put a cap between, tightened and threw in the air to crack on hitting the ground. There was also a craze at Hartley Brook school for making small ornaments, badges etc out of pins and coloured narrow plastic tubing. I bought this stuff there too.

[awoollen]

Originally posted by tara

I always thought kenyons was the same shop where rons greeting cards now is.

could be wrong though.

when i was a lad where rons shop is now i was a watch menders next door was a wine shop then keyons had two shop windows a toy shop and a tobacconists come barbers ect

[littlemalc]

Just managed to get back on line after a break of a couple of months, flamin pc,s, some toys just get more complicated!

Yes, I remember the two part metal bombs, everyone seemed to have one at one time, I always used to look at the Dinky model planes, trouble was they were always beyond my pocket money.

Making up for lost time though, am just starting to build a model railway in the loft, who was it who said little boys never grow up!

[desmitch]

Yes, the metal bombs! they were great but I think the making and using of a "touch wood" burner (who gave it that name?) was more satisfaction. Made out of an oblong lump of hollowed out clay with holes in the side (for blowing through) and filled with dried decayed tree wood. Light it and All it did was make smoke and get your eyes sore and your face filthy.Your mum would play Hell accusing you of having been at the touch wood again. And thats about as bad as it got!!

[littlemalc]

I,m sure it would be looked upon with horror nowadays, but I can recall dropping a lit "penny cannon" down the local grate, and hearing a very deep satisfying "wump".

This is when the only fireworks you could buy were British made:- Brocks, Standard, Lion etc, and we could actually get jumping jacks, all would be regarded now as highly dangerous.

A shop I visit sometimes in Whitby, specialises in vintage toys( that describes us dos,nt it, vintage!) and seeing the Dinky Meteor jets, etc brings back all the longing I used to feel looking in Kenyon,s window.

So far I have managed to resist buying anything, my other half thinks I am well on my way to second youth( I wish)

[Windmillgal]

Originally posted by little malc

Definately wasn't me with the Railton special! one of those now would be worth a small fortune. Some of the other shops on the go at the time were:- Wigfalls tv shop, Bensons sweet shop, The Maypole grocery store, Styanns bakery, Allens cycle shop, Dewhurst butcher's, Friedrichs pork shop, and round the corner on Sicey Ave, the Paragon cinema, our local!