The Tweedys sold handicrafts and penny sweets as well as educational toys in what was an almost rural village on the outskirts of Dublin city. The shop was opened by Robert and Hilda Tweedy in 1962 before the world had heard the Beatles play a note or heard James Bond order a martini. Nimble Fingers has a toy-storied history, which includes a significant connection to the toy show. She is speaking on the morning after the Late Late Toy Show and The Irish Times has followed the yellow brick road – or at least the grey, rain-slicked Stillorgan dual carriageway – to the birthplace of the television spectacular which this year had a Wizard of Oz theme. Coming here just cuts out all the dross.” “He,” she says gesturing towards Gavin who still scouring the shelves for the perfect little present for a two-year-old, “is showing me exactly what to get and he won’t try to sell me anything I don’t want. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times The shop was opened by Robert and Hilda Tweedy in 1962, before the world had heard the Beatles play a note. “Years and years ago I bought toys for my children here, and then there was a period when I didn’t come in at all but now I have all these little people in my life again and I’m delighted to be back. ‘Coming here just cuts out all the dross’Ī rejection of the online arena and a need for help in navigating the sometimes bewildering world of children’s toys is only part of the reason this grandmother is shopping early on a Saturday morning. ![]() I like help when I‘m shopping and I get it in spades here. I have never bought a single thing on the internet. She knows it would have been easier to order on Amazon and have it shipped from some giant warehouse in California to its final destination in LA, but she has no truck with that business at all. We suggest she shouldn’t be buying presents on her birthday but she doesn’t mind shopping for others on her big day.
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