Merrythought 2.81

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Telford, TF8 7
United Kingdom

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Merrythought is a toy manufacturing company established in 1930 in the United Kingdom. The company specialises in soft toys, especially teddy bears. It is the last remaining British teddy bear factory to still make its products in Britain and is located at Ironbridge in Shropshire.The company's site in Ironbridge has a small museum and shop open to the public, and is where the toys are made. The site is a former iron foundry building on the banks of the River Severn, less than half a mile (0.7 km) upstream from the world-famous Iron Bridge itself. The vicinity is known as Dale End, lying at the bottom of the Coalbrookdale valley, and falls within the wider Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.The origin of the firm's name is uncertain but possibly derives from an archaic word for "wishbone" – the company has used a wishbone as an emblem since 1992.HistoryMerrythought was founded in 1930 by Gordon Holmes and George H. Laxton, with the first catalogue in 1931. The company's first products were based on designs by two former employees of Chad Valley, Clifton James Rendle and Florence May Attwood, as well as J. K. Farnell based designs. Florence Attwood produced the company’s first catalogue – an imaginative range of 32 toys including the first Merrythought teddy bear ‘Magnet’ (‘M’ series). Perhaps Merrythought's most famous individual bear was "Mr Whoppit", the mascot of land and water speed record breaker Donald Campbell. The company first produced teddy bears based on the "Woppit" character (a teddy bear himself) from the Robin comic in 1956.

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