Toys - Derelict London - Photography, Social History and Guided Walking Tours

Derelict London - Photography, Social History and Guided Walking Tours

Derelict London Abandoned Toys

Sad unloved, abandoned or lost toys. Creepy dolls, broken toys, forlorn playthings....

Hackney

spurned child's dolly on burnt chair in East London

Shoreditch

East Dulwich

unpopular Golly cuddly toy in South London

New Cross

unpalatable rubber toy abandoned in Bow beside Limehouse Cut

Bow

Hackney

Plaistow

Neglected teddy bear crucifixion on the cross or used as a scare crow in South London

Sydenham

Teddy Bear Walk - Mill Hill, NW7

Teddy Bear Walk - Mill Hill, NW7 (Paul Talling 2021)

I stumbled upon this footpath full of cuddly toys. I haven't seen anything like it in London since the Croydon Toy Tree a few years ago.

During summer 2020, this public footpath was turned into the 'Teddy bear walk' as something that young children could participate to brighten up COVID-19 times, both giving soft toys and enjoying the walk. As a result, there well over 100 toys spread along the path. Some became quite bedraggled by Autumn and local volunteers removed many for winter hibernation and took them home to wash and store and recently returned them to line the footpath.

Abandoned blue Teletubbies toy in a tree in North London Teddy Bear Walk

Two Smurf cuddly toys hanging on a fence in North London

Meanwhile, down in South London you can spot these cuddly creatures up a tree in Southwark Park:

Stuffed toy tigers in the trees of Southwark Park, Rotherhithe

Tigers in the Trees of Southwark Park, Rotherhithe, SE16 (Paul Talling 2021)

Croydon - The Toy Tree RIP

Abandoned cuddly toys saved from the skip in the Croydon Toy Tree (Gloucester Road)

2014

Discarded cuddly toys in a tree and along a fence in front of skip company off St James Road, Croydon, SE London

2014

Along the Gloucester Road (at the St James Road end) was a huge collection of cuddly toys. Apparently the skip company that occupied the site found a discarded toy in one of their skips and they put it in the tree. More and more abandoned cuddly toys were added to the tree and then also along the fence above the front wall.

The skip company have now vacated the premises along with most of the toys leaving only a few toys left in the tree.