This thread takes me back. I was born and grew up on a farm in North Wales, the rural areas were late getting electricity, we got ours in 1966 I think. Shortly after a B/W T.V. it was a "PYE". Before that it was the "wireless" run off a "wet" battery charged at a local Garage once a week. Our stamps were the infamous Green Shield Stamps. i can still remember the horrible taste of the glue, there always seemed like thousands of the bastard things that had to be stuck into the books.
Mechano was the make of our "Erector" sets. Yeh got a few scars too when the screwdriver used to slip.
Used to get toy Tractors with all the implements, can't remember who made them, fantastic things, even the triple hitch at the back worked the implements up and down. First bike was a Daws
Let me close before i slip totally into nostalga, so Yeh 50's and 60's, life seemed so much simpler then. Happy Days,