Matchbox, maker of tiny toy cars, is bringing back one if its most important models. It’s not a car, but a little horse-drawn coach, and its success led to the creation of Matchbox toy cars. And it ...

But did you know your Matchbox car or one owned by your child or grandchild could be worth hundreds or thousands of pounds? The die-cast models were first launched by Lesney Products back in 1953, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Matchbox was making tiny die-cast cars more than a decade before Hot Wheels rolled onto the scene. It might be even more surprising to learn ...

YOU never forget a job you loved, well that’s what many of the thousands of workers at the Lesney Products (later Matchbox Toys) factory thought of their time there. Documents from Rochford District ...

Along a sleepy, tree-lined street in a small South Jersey community sits a gigantic toy box. It’s a one-story, 2,100-square-foot building that houses 70 years of childhood memories in the form of ...

It’s nearly time to stick up the bunting and pop the kettle on ahead of some truly record breaking tea consumption. Yep, it’s almost His Majesty King Charles III's Coronation, and there’s only one way ...

Telford Homes has won planning permission for the redevelopment of the former Lesney Matchbox toy factory site near the Olympic Park in Hackney, east London ...

Matchbox, maker of tiny toy cars, is bringing back one if its most important models. It's not a car, but a little horse-drawn coach, and its success led to the creation of Matchbox toy cars. And it ...