Cabinet of Curiosities
Nov 23, 2021
3 minutes
This Month: Rocking Horses
About 20 years ago, I was lucky enough to inherit our family rocking horse. He’s called Neddy and was manufactured by F. H. Ayres in the 1920s. The story goes (no doubt apocryphal) that my grandmother, passing by a house in Chelsea in the 1950s, spotted him from the street and was cheeky enough to knock on the door and ask if the rocking horse in the window might
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