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

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The cards were exactly the same but the rules were reprinted and a new box designed. Some really superb paintings were used for Trains which Pepys said were by Ian Allen. I think they did a pretty good job with a game evocative of the 1950s called Round Britain. Scouting appeared in 1955 but the Girl Guides had to wait a little longer for their own card game: Guiding.

British Towns was a game which used a very old set of rules namely those from “Counties of England”, with a few differences. Jaques Original Snap and Jaques Original Happy Families appeared with some of the Tenniel drawings from the 1860’s games by Jaques.Legs Eleven was the only game produced in Hong Kong and it even had square corners. This could well have been by way of an experiment, which seems not to have been a success.

The “Double Feature” game was Wimbledon with a tennis court and small extra cards and coming with the endorsement of Fred Perry.

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Racey Helps drew another game for Pepys with Woodland Old Maid. The Old Maids are splendid owls and the rules are on a card not in a book. Castell Bros Ltd were located at 55 Clerkenwell Road London, E.C. in 1908 when they submitted a Provisional Application for a new type of Whist Token

Although I can offer no definite proof of this they both shout Pepys at me because the card quality and artwork are very similar and the box dimensions and the board are right. Further Double Feature games had been planned and the next to be issued was Rally, these cards were all designed by the “Motor” magazine’s artist known as Lane. The last Double Feature game, Channel X was issued in 1966 and showed Pepys awareness of modern TV advertising on the new commercial channel. It was made from the same inexpensive board that was later to be used for the small number of cheaper range card games which Pepys introduced. A more conventional card game was Famous Five (the first edition). Later came The Wizard of Oz, anonymous but registered to Castell Bros in May 1940, an MGM film this time.I hand an old set of my mother’s that we play together as a family and we always wondered if there was a re-made edition out there. The cards are clearly printed and are grate fun to play with! The badger, mouse , hedgehog , robin family are my personal favourite pictures but there is a few more, on other cards. Helps you to learn ´MR,’ ´MS,´ ´Master’ ´Miss’ and what family’s group together along the way. A classic game for mastering at any age. Would definitely recommend to others. I hand an old set of my mother’s that we play together as a family and we always wondered if there was a re-made edition out there. The cards are clearly printed and are grate fun to play with! The badger, mouse , hedgehog , robin family are my personal favourite pictures but there is a few more, on other cards. Helps you to learn ´MR,’ ´MS,´ ´Master’ ´Miss’ and what family’s group together along the way. A classic game for mastering at any age. Would definitely recommend to others.

Ern Shaw devised another game for Pepys in this period called Sylabex, a syllable word game, at first in a double sized lid and bottom type box with 72 cards, but later, in at least another two editions, in the usual flip top box with 44 cards. Please note that the standard UPS UK or Parcelforce 24 or 48 services do not deliver on a Saturday, Sunday or bank holidays. The trains were brought up to date with the new liveries of the four new British Railways regions. SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS When the Snow White card game was used to promote Pears Soap, as far as I know there was no special wrapping, only the usual glassine wrap for the cards inside the box with a gold seal printed in red. 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.

The cards were also quite an unusual design. Cards with three different pictures had been used before in Girl but now they were used for The Car Game with a selection of interesting cars from different times; none later than 1961 of course. box with a pictorial label on the front and a silhouette of the rabbit family which is also used on the reverse of the cards I wonder if, when they introduced Woodland Happy Families and Woodland Snap, they realised just how popular these would be. A card game based on MGM’s most popular 1939 film releases, Film Fantasy, was issued (registered Sept 1939), at first anonymously, maybe because it was connected with another film studio when Pepys had such strong links with Walt Disney. Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame.