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Space Race Era Toys and Objects

  1. 'How it Works' The Rocket - Credit: Ladybird Books/Dorling Kindersley
  2. 1948 London Olympic Games Official Report - Credit: World Sports/BOA
  3. 1948 London Olympic Games Participation Medal
  4. Big Ears Pelham Puppet
  5. Brooke Bond 'The Race Into Space' Tea Cards
  6. C54 Lotus 16 and C55 Vanwall Scalextric Cars and Track
  7. C54 Lotus 16 and C55 Vanwall Scalextric Cars and Track
  8. Clanger Toy
  9. Etch A Sketch
  10. Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle Toy
  11. Noddy Pelham Puppet
  12. Original Palitoy Action Man
  13. Rockets and Spacecraft Book One
  14. Rockets and Spacecraft Book Two
  15. Original 1963 Sindy Doll
  16. Modern Slinky based on the original 1945 design
  17. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl