THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — Vintage Toy

Today's Britain is full of warning labels and safety information. However this wasn't always the way.  "When ah worra lad," I hankered for a chemistry set but because we were poor, and my mum was terrified I would explode our home, I wasn't allowed one. Such deprivation didn't do me too much harm as I later became a scientist - indeed a chemist and I had always thought that the chemistry sets of yore were quite benign........ or were they? Just take a look at this baby, impressive huh? This is the Gilbert's Atomic Energy Laboratory squarely aimed at the...