Whilst I cherished all the childhood Christmas presents from my parents there were some notable ones which stand out: Junior Carpentry Kit when I was 7, Hornby Doublo Model Railway when I was 10 and a Mamod Steam Engine when I was 13, which I hooked up to a polishing mop accessory and used it to clean the brass work on my BB uniform - not very successfully. My model was a stationary version but you could get a moving fair ground traction engine model and later a locomotive, roughly based on a narrow gauge loco.
Peg.
