The Shop Front Competition Pictures and Result

This was a tricky call by the judges and so there’s a joint 1st place for St Giles Flooring and Bucks House. The Barber’s in 3rd place.

St Giles Flooring Had a Teddy Bear’s Picnic and individual toys in a box - A Toy Box, in fact!

The Barber’s Shop had toys, sweets and text of the decades; 50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s

The 1950s We didn’t have much, but we had time. I can still hear a Slinky walking itself down the Stairs, step by patient step. Grandma ruled the Scrabble board, and nobody dared question her spelling. Out in the road, the hula hoop kept us going until the Streetlights came On. Happy days!

The 1960s Everything felt new then: the music, the clothes, even our toys. The Spirograph made me feel like a real artist. My little cogs and coloured biros created beautiful patterns! And the Etch A Sketch? Twiddle, twiddle, and suddenly magic appeared — then one shake and it was gone. We never minded starting again.

The 1970s Ask anyone my age about the 70s and they'll mention the Space Hopper. Orange, grinning, ad utterly determined to tip you into the flowerbed. Wet Sunday afternoons belonged to Mastermind with its coloured pegs. Then Playmobil arrived. The sitting room carpet became a farm, a harbour, a whole world!

The 1980s By then we were the parents, buying the toys and secretly playing with them. The Rubik's Cube defeated our entire household, and I'm still not over it. Sylvanian Families were the gentle ones - tiny cottages, tiny kettles, hedgehogs in pinafores. And Optimus Prime? A lorry one minute, a hero the next. Brilliant!

The 1990s Suddenly the toys needed feeding. A Tamagotchi beeped through supper, school and homework. The Furby chattered away in the dark and frightened the life out of us. And the Turtles - pizza, nunchucks and "Cowabunga!" bellowed across every playground in England. Noisy, daft, thoroughly loved!

Sparks Pharmacy went for soft toy and Rubik’s cube theme.