Ilkley Toy Museum
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Overview
Children and grown-ups can spend many a happy hour here, picking out the favourite and the familiar, and wallowing in nostalgia of tin toy cars and plastic figures. It’s a private collection, with highlights including a working model fairground of the 1940s, a unique collection of wooden dolls dating to the 18th century, pre-World War I teddies, and a glorious 1930s dolls house.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: Open Sat-Sun 12–4. Open extra days during school hols, please check website for details
- Facilities
- Parking nearby
- Children
- Suitable for children of all ages
About the area
Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.
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