pollocks toy museum and shop is hidden somewhere in soho. it purports to be on scala street but i defy anyone to find it in the same place twice. it is one of the original magical shops of england, never found when looked for and always a suprise. its a trove of bengal matches and cut out things requireing copydex and fortune telling fish, a whole shop of stockingfillers and strange tin toys.
i had one of thier paper theatres once, it took half a lifetime - or so it seemed - to glue the thing together but had a complete set of scenery raised and lowered by bits of string. the bengal matches were however always my favourite thing, and sometimes on the rare days that pollocks deigns to allow me to find it i buy them. they come in fives, wrapped in blue tissue paper in a matchbox with a tiger on the front; either red or green, and the few seconds they burn emitting plumes of gunpowder smoke and coloured fire is heaven itself.
pollocks is also threatened with closure, the lease on their 18th century building is up, and unless they can buy the freehold it will be lost. help save pollocks.
Posted by flambingo at March 15, 2004 06:06 PMPlease update your link as pollocks has been saved and is still open
Posted by: pollocks on July 22, 2004 08:48 AM