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J G Graves:- Entrepeneur


KevinB

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Hi

I would be interested to know of any member who has knowledge of or catalogues from the time when JGGraves was running his mail order "Warehouse to the World" empire.

Any contribution very welcome!

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I know it's an old post, but I had not come across it before. Thank you, Richard B, for eeminding me of Bayko. I had a set as a small boy and loved constructing buildings from it, but had entirely forgotten about it until now.

   When we cleared my parents' house in 2005, many of my boyhood things were still in the attic: lots of Trix trains, Britain's field guns and lorries, a Meccano set, and board games such as Railrace and Test Match, but no Bayko. I guess my parents must have thrown it out or sold it many years earlier.

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My earliest knowledge of our benefactor Mr Graves….as a child ….were the small number of Graves Trust Houses  ,with their attractive manicured lawns, at Firth Park….entrance to which was strictly forbidden to me by my Mum!

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J. G. Graves, Christmas from the Catalogue

From an article by Mike Spi*k in Sheffield History Reporter 

Issue No 97 Dec 2004/Jan 2005. 

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