BLITZ WRECKAGE
MADE INTO TOYS BY LONDON FIREMEN. Motor lorries rattled out of London on Christmas Eve with a great freight of 2,000 toys for the children of women on war work who were being cared for at Nursery Centres until the bombs stop falling. Never have toys had a queerer origin. There are beds, complete with bedding, dolls of all kinds, cots for large-size dolls, see-saws, chutes, fire engines, large model yachts with sails, and large pink elephants and rocking horses, model shops, 'complete with goods to the last detail, model aeroplanes and aerodromes and a complete convoy set of ships. All of them have been made by the firemen of 29 London stations from the wreckage of the blitz—odd bits of timber and metal, lead piping and guttering. The lead has become soldiers cast from a mould made by a fireman; the American War Relief gave the gay paints for them. Old socks, stockings and curtain rags have supplied the fabrics used.
And the result in workmanship, design and colour is as good as the toys the big stores used to show at Christmas time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1942, Page 2
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187BLITZ WRECKAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1942, Page 2
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