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Originally Posted by exaccyman
I think E J Riley's (Little Blackburn Road) sold toys as well as sporting goods. I remember, in the late forties, word used to go around at school (Peel Park) that "So-and-so" have got Dinkies in". If we had any money, money boxes were emptied and we made a bee-line for the appropriate shop after school.
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Getting confused a little now, did E.J. Rileys not sell prams too ? .. know I bought my daughter's pram from the the shop on Little Blackburn Road, they used to have them in the window. Thought this was called Babyland too.
Was a lovely streamline green and grey Silver Cross coach pram .. loved it .. suspension was good too .. didn't bounce her all over the place.
Course years later, when I had my son, saw the sense of buying one that did all purposes .. e.g. main body would come off the bottom to put in car, etc., and fold down .. much more economical.