Like the new photo on the main page Steve - Mother Dragon. Very nice! I think I might look out for a Mother Dragon because I understand she is quite a good...
hi we dont just have puppets so if there are any particular favourites you liked to see on these pages please let me know have just aquired another three...
Hi Steve, Laura loved the caterpillar photos and I thought there was some good ones too!! By the way in some of the pics, is that your thatched cottage in the...
Hi I phoned wilkinsons (01909 505505)who have cnfirmed they are no longer stocking the black buffers for the controllers of our beloved puppets they were quite...
Hi all the cost of standerd control bars 8+8 inches will be 5 pounds plus postage, but Ive now hit a snag the buffer surplier know longer stocks them so I have...
control bars are fairly easey to reconstruct although the problem is they always look brand new. there are several options 1 you canabalize a broken or cheaper...
hi all I have just worked out how to unmoderate your messages so now your post will be seen imediatley. tim slight confusion I meant I was slow letting...
No not slow, just the next person in the queue for finding info out! I was not the first person to go looking and some of the info I pass on has been handed on...
hi tim yes i was going to try dyeing the white thread ,its weight is 25grms and they are doing all the the colours in this weight I bought the white as a trial...
Somac in Chester were the factory that used to supply B&M latex in south London which for a long time was the supplier of similar Pelham Strings. They no...
black buffers are still obtainable from "wilkinsons" and they are about the right size, screw eyes every time i go somewhere new i look in the the hardware...
The moulds for the composition heads bodies, feet and hands were made by Percy Mortimer, he also created the original recipie for the composition used The...
the hair was supplied by www.ephraimson.com heads were sourced after Bob Pelham went to the Marlborough Mop Fair and met a man on a cocnut shy called mr bunce...
The Museum will be open as part of the open studio's weekend 12th,13th and 14th of september at Porlock- Porlock Weir West Somerset full details from...
Hi all, hope everyone is well. These strings you were talking about Steve, are they the right or near-enough the right linen and/or look authentic?? Need to...
In 1965 the Shackman company of Japan started making poor quality coppies of Pelhams and flooding the american market with them these are the puppets which...
... another company making thread is J WEnzel this time fifteen metres for one pound 25 pence apparently its used for platting horses maines and tails...
hi jamie the tortoise didnt exist it was a red hering fishing for emails i will soon be putting a list of puppets not to buy but not who they are from so you...
hi jamie i was wondering why you had been quiet online recently and thanks for your message have a lot more pictures to take and upload to the site but rome...
Hi Steve, Just wanted to say the site is brilliant so far - well made and informative. Came back from a holiday in Scotland today and so am relaxing on the PC...
without questions i cant say a lot new pictures are slowly being added there are two albums at present one showing content the other the internal building and...
Hi this site although in its infancy is backed by over four years of buying and selling vintage toys and Pelham Puppets from various antique markets around...
A subject always on our minds it seems, I was in John lewis habadashery department the other day day and found linen thread unfortunatley only in black 99p for...
hi i actually thought someone was doing these already still these are on ebay from21stcentury productions anyone buys one let us know what you think...
