Explore! Learn! Create! was “born” about 3 years ago...
I was pregnant with our youngest child, it was nearly Christmas and our boys were pre-occupied with their Christmas lists... suddenly they asked “What would yooou like for Christmas, mummy?” I considered it and then it suddenly dawned on me – no more boring accountant! I want a toy shop.
We have always been frustrated by the drab or garish plastic sameness on the high street... too many TV characters...
We were also lucky because my husband’s parents spent several years in Germany and brought such wonderful wooden toys for us.
As our children grew we found that with the internet and mail order parent’s choices were widening but quite often we found that websites have small pictures, minimum descriptions and no advice, no information about where the toys come from... we wanted to be different.
Having decided that I want to run a toy shop I soon discovered that there are many excellent designers and manufacturers of toys (mainly in Europe) but their toys never make it to our high street.
We now have a real toy shop in Lichfield, Staffordshire. It is right in the centre in Market Street (right opposite Woolworths in fact) - we have a lot of toys out of the boxes - so come and play any day!
But if you are not able to pop we offer you a website that is as close as you can get to seeing and touching the toys themselves.
We tried to make it as uncluttered as possible, the pictures as big as possible, the descriptions as comprehensive as possible...
Please let us know if we can make it even better for you.
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