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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 452060" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>Ware Toy Shop in Ware, Hertfordshire for me. Almost all of my Star Wars and most of my Empire toys came from there between 1978 - 1983. It wasn't a particularly big shop, and had a really weird layout where the front half of the shop was on ground level, but was for larger display items only, like prams and much bigger toys. You weren't supposed to go in that bit, but instead walked along the right-hand side of the front of the shop, up a very short staircase with a turn halfway up it, and then arrived at the shop proper.</p><p></p><p>It may have been small, but it was a massive part of my childhood, and is one of the most Star Wars things in my entire memory! Small it might have been, but they seemed to carry the entire original Palitoy line. It was from there I purchased almost all my toys over a period of years (I wasn't rich!); my 12 and 20 back figures, a Palitoy Landspeeder (my first ever Star Wars non-figure toy!), Cantina, Land of the Jawas, Droid Factory, and my all-time favourite toy, the Palitoy Death Star (£9.99 to you, sir!). Back then, I would ask to see the toy before buying, and the lady in the shop (who had terrible Parkinson's) would oblige by opening each boxed item for me with her badly shaking hands. I would marvel at the plastic wonderment contained inside, then pop a few doors down the High Street to the Saffron Walden Building Society, extract the required funds, then return to the Toy Shop and buy the goodness I had just witnessed!</p><p></p><p>I can't imagine too many shops being willing to do that for their customers these days! :-D</p><p></p><p>I would LOVE to own a picture of Ware Toy Shop circa 1978 - 1983. I moved away from Ware in 1983 and at some point after that, the shop closed down, as did the Saffron Walden. These days with Google Street view, I can't even be certain which shop Ware Toy Shop used to be :-(. Some day I will make a pilgrimage back to Ware and try to work out which shop it was. If they still have the staircase inside, it should be easy enough! :-D</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 452060, member: 7379"] Ware Toy Shop in Ware, Hertfordshire for me. Almost all of my Star Wars and most of my Empire toys came from there between 1978 - 1983. It wasn't a particularly big shop, and had a really weird layout where the front half of the shop was on ground level, but was for larger display items only, like prams and much bigger toys. You weren't supposed to go in that bit, but instead walked along the right-hand side of the front of the shop, up a very short staircase with a turn halfway up it, and then arrived at the shop proper. It may have been small, but it was a massive part of my childhood, and is one of the most Star Wars things in my entire memory! Small it might have been, but they seemed to carry the entire original Palitoy line. It was from there I purchased almost all my toys over a period of years (I wasn't rich!); my 12 and 20 back figures, a Palitoy Landspeeder (my first ever Star Wars non-figure toy!), Cantina, Land of the Jawas, Droid Factory, and my all-time favourite toy, the Palitoy Death Star (£9.99 to you, sir!). Back then, I would ask to see the toy before buying, and the lady in the shop (who had terrible Parkinson's) would oblige by opening each boxed item for me with her badly shaking hands. I would marvel at the plastic wonderment contained inside, then pop a few doors down the High Street to the Saffron Walden Building Society, extract the required funds, then return to the Toy Shop and buy the goodness I had just witnessed! I can't imagine too many shops being willing to do that for their customers these days! :-D I would LOVE to own a picture of Ware Toy Shop circa 1978 - 1983. I moved away from Ware in 1983 and at some point after that, the shop closed down, as did the Saffron Walden. These days with Google Street view, I can't even be certain which shop Ware Toy Shop used to be :-(. Some day I will make a pilgrimage back to Ware and try to work out which shop it was. If they still have the staircase inside, it should be easy enough! :-D [/QUOTE]
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