Pollock's Toy Theatres Limited

Pollock's is an active producer of toy theatre items. We are descended from a well known line of toy theatre print wholesalers from the 1800's.

We have a large collection of toy theatre production items, printing plates, theatres, printed sheets of scenes and characters and general toy theatre paraphernalia.

We have more than 100 toy theatres in our collection.

Eddy Fawdry, grandson of the museum's creator, stands by as Hugo Brown the great, great, great, grandson of John Kilby Green, the legendary, and some say original, toy theatre publisher, holds the original copper printing plate, engraved by his ancestor, for the most famous scene for the most famous toy theatre play of them all, 'The Miller and his Men'.

...the most famous scene for the most famous toy theatre play of them all, 'The Miller and his Men'.

Pollock's has about 800 of the original toy theatre printing plates and Hugo has been generously helping Pollock's to catalogue and conserve the play sheets many of which his ancestor engraved and printed.

Green's Regency Theatre Proscenium

Hugo's own website contains the most authoritive and image laden history of toy theatre to date and we are happy to recommend a visit there via our links page.