Woodland Happy Families Classic Card Game for Kids | Retro Design & Illustrations | Bright, colourful & fun travel card game | Gibsons Games

Product Information

These were Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan both of them with reduced numbers of cards from the originals. The earlier ones without Bar Codes were issued late 1970s to 1984 when the bar code appeared on the boxes. The Original Jaques Snap and Happy Families also were issued under licence at the time.

AIDS DEVELOPMENT - Perfect toys for your child – Little Gibsons puzzles and games are for kids of every age and help support a child’s creative and cognitive development. The trains were brought up to date with the new liveries of the four new British Railways regions. SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS We’re Gibsons, the family-owned jigsaw puzzle and board game company. Founded in London in 1919, we’ve been entertaining generations for over 100 years and our passion is creating the best quality products for all ages. Off the press next was Jungle Thrills, definitely not politically correct today but maybe at the time it was acceptable.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

The Walt Disney film “Alice in Wonderland” was released in 1951, but that title had already been used for a card game by De La Rue, so Pepys had to use the name Alice for their game based on the film. Penalty (renamed "Goal") • Rally • Round Britain • Round Europe • Test Pilot • The Car Game • They're Off (renamed "Derby Day") • Historical note. In 1960 Nancy Collins, the wife of Kenneth Collins the MD of Castell Brothers, became MD of E J Larby Ltd when the owner Earnest Larby retired. was the year that Rupert was first issued, a very nice game with the famous bear from the Daily Express newspaper. International Football Whist was another unusual game which had a paper football pitch and a little metal football as well as the cards.

There were two versions of Win-a-Lot eventually, the first with a short indicator board and the second with a longer, more elaborate board and slightly altered rule book marked “Second and Revised Edition”. A. B. Bowbeer, one of the artists who worked for “Flight” magazine, drew the cards for the new “Double Feature” game Test Pilot which was endorsed by Neville Duke the chief test pilot for Hawker. TELEVISION AND FILMS In 1931 Henry Castell’s two grandchildren sold the Castell Brothers Ltd business to Amalgamated Press, who then sold it on to William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, the publishers, who transferred the business to Glasgow at 107 North Wallace Street. The other game, Vacuation, about evacuating young children away from target zones was also anonymous but registered at the same time to Castell Bros. The first edition of Happy Families of the World was another of the economy 36 card games and probably sold very well because there seem to be a lot around even now.In addition they both have the characteristic extra title card attached to the box, an unusual feature at this time in Britain. Garden Flowers, as I have already mentioned, pictured by Dora Ratman, must have been a welcome addition for those who like that sort of thing but I prefer the next game; Again Pepys only say “by the brilliant Eagle artists” but I can tell you that the artist was Frank Humphries.

These card games must have made many a child very happy when they opened their birthday or Christmas presents. A new version of Snow White, much more closely based on scenes from the Disney film and looking more modern for the young things of the 1950s, was introduced around 1951 see more→ GIBSON GAMES DISTRIBUTE THE GAMESRex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games and his book is on the bookshelves of many.