New toy shop for Thame

A NEW, independent toy shop is to open in North Street, Thame – run by one of the assistants made redundant when the Pied Pedaller closed recently.
‘The Spinning Top,’ as the new shop is to be called, will not however, be opening on the site of the Pied Pedaller toy shop which closed last month to make way for a new library.
A young couple from Thame, James Butler and Helen Sellwood, have bought the lease on the vacant shop that was ‘Craftie Sue’s, opposite the cattlemarket in North Street.
It is the couple’s first business venture and they hope that their shop, which will concentrate on less expensive, ‘pocket money’ toys, will be supported by local people even though it is somewhat off the beaten shopping track.
James, who with his partner Helen, and the drummer from his band ‘The Rockets’ is doing all the painting and shop fitting working himself, told ThameNews.Net: “We are very confident that the shop will fill at least part of the hole left by the demise of the Pied Pedaller, and even though we are a bit further down North Street, we are on the walking route for many people from Lea Park and from Barley Hill school. Also, there is free parking in the Cattlemarket opposite.”

As well as things like traditional, metal spinning tops, James and Helen will be stocking the collectable yet affordable ‘Charlie Bears’ range of jointed teddy bears.

James and Helen hope to open ‘The Spinning Top’ in around two weeks time, before the end of the school holidays.