Alchemy Pendants

The new Alchemy pendants are now in stock. Our prices at Time Was... are amongst the lowest, if not the lowest, on the internet.

Alchemy was founded in Leicester, England in 1977 by two self-taught artist/model maker/designers from Manchester: Geoff Kayson and Trevor Phillipson.
Their imaginative, high quality work and products soon earned them the attention of some influential and high profile clients. This established them in the, ‘promotional products’ business, designing and producing items as diverse as bronze statues, album covers, collectable giftware and Rock ‘n’ Roll merchandise.

Their jewellery pendants are much sought after and Time Was... bring you the best at http://www.timewasshop.co.uk/Pendants.htm

It's been a while

It's been a while since our last blog, but it's been a busy time although we did manage to sneak in a holiday to Rhodes. Hot or what!!

Look out for our new lines.

McFarlane Toy's - very rare set of figures, including the much sought after Red Riding Hood.

http://www.timewasshop.co.uk/McFarlane

New Alchemy pendants are on their way.

New Doctor Who items are on their way.

New Boardgames are here.

http://www.timewasshop.co.uk/Board%20Games.htm

Always lot's to get from Time Was... at excellent prices, but now even more.

Why not come to the Buttermarket In Newark and see.

On manoeuvres

Last weekend Time Was... was on manoeuvres with Battlegroup North at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington just outside of York.

The Battlegroup had marched into town with their bands playing and tanks thundering along. This living history event happens every year and together with a wargaming event in the Canadian Memorial hanger it makes for an enjoyable weekend.

The weather on the whole was very good, alot warmer this year and it really only rained during Saturday night. As we returned on the Sunday morning many of the troops were coming out of wet tents and dodging the puddles on the ground, but were they bothered? It didn't look like it. Alot of them already had their rations on the stoves and the smell of early morning fried bacon and eggs was something to relish, and would make anyone hungry.

If you've never been to one of these events before then you're in for a treat. This year on the Saturday there was a flypast by a WWII Hawker Hurricane as well as a couple of jets, that we were a bit too slow in getting out of the hanger to see. The hanger contains the last of the Handley Page Halifax bombers in the UK, only one other exists and that's in Canada. The Museum is on the site of the old RAF Elvington station and still has many of its original buildings such as the Control Tower and Naafi, along with a variety of planes, but then you'd expect those at an Air Museum.

The Battlegroup themselves have plenty of jeeps, trucks and tanks from WWII along with other original equipment from both World Wars.

It's a very friendly event, the participants are there to interact with, otherwise it wouldn't be living history. If you come along next year we'll see you there as Time Was... will be back, for us it's a very good event.

Thanks to the Museum and Battlegroup North for an excellent event and thanks to someone else for some warm weather this year.

A Day At The Races

Sunday the 17th saw Time Was... for the first time at York Racecourse for a Toyfair. Quite a trip, 200 miles there and back, but it's really just up the A1 and the A64 so nice and easy. Despite it being in the middle of April it was very sunny first thing, whatever happened to April showers??? When we arrived we were near the glass fronted wall with the sun streaming in. Well after just 10 minutes of starting to set up, it wasn't just the sun that was streaming. It was just like being in a Greenhouse, thank heavens when the sun moved round and it cooled down. And they're off!!! Well so we thought, at 10 the doors opened, by 10:30 we had done £50.00. Not bad for a first time, beats the bookies any day. But by 2:00 pm we had done just £60.00 overall. It was like pulling teeth from a toothless bod. Could it be that the toyfair was predominately trains and our Doctor Who, Star Trek and Fantasy Figures didn't quite gel with folks or was it probably due to the nice sunny day? Either ways it wasn't busy at all, not many buyers about. Still worth a try, but we seem to have backed a half lame donkey yesterday. Still Huntingdon next Bank Holiday Monday, let's hope for better.

Memorabilia - NEC

The Spring Memorabilia event at the NEC was a busy old affair. Saturday was very busy but very tiring. Getting up at 4 a.m. is not everyone's cup of tea certainly not ours. But Memorabilia is one of those shows that makes it worth it. Plenty to see and plenty of buyers. After a slow first hour, which is normal, our collectable toys flew off the shelves, though the Fantasy figures didn't do so well, the Gothic jewellery did. We eventually had the best day yet at the NEC, pity the evening meal at our local Indian Restaurant with family didn't go quite so well. Three hours for two courses is well just tto much, though they were apologetic and gave us a couple of bottles as an apology. Sunday though was a different story, like a football match it was a weekend of two halves. Pity the half -time whistle came, since Sunday only produced a quarter of what we did on Saturday. No gothic jewellery went, very few fantasy figures and it was only the toys that kept us going. Still overall it was a very good weekend, but very tiring, Sunday night was a time for sleep.

Doncaster Toyfair Again

The last toyfair of the winter saw Time Was... back at Doncaster Racecourse for a toyfair organised by MB Toyfairs. Pity it wasn't spring as the folks who turned up kept their hands in their pockets to keep warm!!!

After nearly two hours those hands must have been burning as we had only done £3.99 and were looking at a Total Wipeout, though not the Richard Hammond version and that's bad enough. But we persisted with sitting there smiling politely to the window shoppers and even managing to chat to those who didn't have laryngitis. It paid off a wee bit as we did manage to sell a few more things. Not enough to make a profit but you can't win them all, we normally do very well at Doncaster.

Never downhearted Time Was... will be back there on May 29th.

But this weekend, 26th and 27th March we are at Memorabilia at the NEC. So we're closing the shop on the Saturday and hopefully be pulling in the shoppers at the NEC instead. And it will be spring by then, so warmer hands already.

Hope to see you there.

Hammerhead 2011

Kelham Hall, Newark was the venue for Hammerhead 2011 organised by the Gaming Club Network. A popular event with plenty of folks partaking in the wide variety of games that were being showcased, from War of the Worlds to WWI, from Cowboys and injuns to American Civil War. Quite a sprawling venue in what is an impressive building, if you get a chance to visit it then take a look. It is the Council Buildings for Newark, but you can arrange to have a look around.

Also present was the 'Tenth' Doctor and a couple of Daleks, 'real ones' as the Doctor said, not these new versions dreamt up for the Eleventh Doctor. As we had quite a bit of Doctor Who products we were situated near them, which allowed us to spread out quite a bit. And when the lights were finally put on people could actually see what we had.

The show itself was a big success with the games being well used, unfortunately as is the way of the world at the moment people were very cagey with their hard earned money. Plenty of folks looking but not so many buying. So not quite the success for us this time as in the previous Hammerhead, but we still did make a profit, albeit a wee one.

All said and done we look forward to the next Hammerhead in 2012.