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Description: | This teddy bear was bought from Gamages department store in Holborn for 5s/6d in 1910. It was a present for a baby from his mother?s friend, who was visiting London from Great Yarmouth. At the time the baby?s family were living in Church Street, Lower Edmonton which was an area of market gardens. His grandfather was an Italian sculptor with a studio in Holborn and his father worked in the family business, whilst his mother was a nurse. The bear was named ?Bruss? and was kept by his owner until the latter was well into his nineties.
The owner later recalled how as a young boy during the First World War he was woken one night by sirens and taken out of bed by his mother into the garden to see a Boxkite plane blow up a Zeppelin. It caught fire and broke into two. All the people on the ground cheered and his mum said ?Make ?Bruss? cheer? so he made ?Bruss? growl by shaking him. The pilot of the aeroplane was awarded a Victoria Cross medal for his efforts.
Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Geffrye Museum. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Geffrye Museum | Rights holder: | Geffrye Museum | Subjects: | Leisure London at War | Temporal: | 1909 | Source: | Geffrye Museum | Creator: | Steiff | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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