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If memory serves, the date was December 14th, 1978.  The place was Southsea in Portsmouth, and I was down there for a few days to be Best Man at a then-friend's wedding, having taken time off work specially for the occasion.  I was looking into the window of an old-fashioned newsagent's - one of those that had a bit of charm and a hint of the '5os, instead of like today's soulless, sterile places.  Of course, there could be a chance that I'm romanticizing the shop in memory's golden gleam, but even so, it wasn't too far removed from the ideal.

Two glorious-red tin pillar box banks caught my eye, and I knew I had to have them - for two reasons.  The first was that sometime back around 1963, I'd been at Church (or Sunday School) with my mother one Sunday morning when the minister (or teacher) had suggested that the congregation buy toys for underprivileged children.  In memory it seems like we went straight to Woolworth's right after the service, but Woolies wouldn't have been open on a Sunday back then, so it must've been the next day or the one after.  There my mother invited me to choose two toys, so I picked a plastic pillar box bank and a plastic steamroller.

When we got back home I ran straight into the garden to play with them, but my mother took them away from me, saying that they were for underprivileged kids.  Listen, no kid ever felt more underprivileged than me at that moment, being parted from two toys I wanted to play with.  I'd probably forgotten by then what the silly minister (or teacher) had been wittering on about and thought the toys were for me.  Anyway, the upshot of this was that I developed a mild though subconscious fixation on pillar box banks, but strangely not so much one on steamrollers.

Sometime before my visit to Southsea I'd been discussing this with another pal, who likewise evinced the desire to own a pillar box bank, which brings me to my second reason for buying them - one was for him.  When I returned home, I kept one for myself and gave him the other.  I had mine for around twelve years when, unfortunately, it got damaged beyond repair and I reluctantly disposed of it.  However, that strengthened my obsession with them and I've since bought quite a few different examples of pillar box banks over the years, to compensate for the loss of my one from Southsea.  (If you don't all behave yourselves, I may even do a blog about them some day.)

I've been scouring ebay over the last few years looking for one the exact same - a Chad Valley one, seen in the above photo next to my Smash Martian, but to no avail.  Until recently that is, when I saw a pair on offer for a ridiculously low starting price, along with a 'best offer' option.  So I offered a modest amount which was accepted, and today two almost pristine replacements for my original arrived at Castel Crivens.  Just think - it was in 1978 I bought my first pair, and 48 years later I bought another pair precisely the same.

In honour of the memorable event, I've posed them next to the same Smash Martian seen in the above pic (which, incidentally, was taken on November 5th 1989), and snapped a photo which you can see below.  Over 30 years later, and I now have my Chad Valley bank back (well, two of them), and, curiously, I think that brings my collection of pillar box banks to an end as my compulsion to collect them seems to have suddenly abated.  But has it?  Only time will tell.

In the meantime, does anyone know where I might find a toy steamroller?

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