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It is a four-track race game in which each player has a plastic playing piece in the shape of a railway engine. The pieces are of different colours, matching the colours of the four tracks. Players use a spinner instead of dice and they follow instructions that are given along the trackways.","physicalDescription":"Design: chromolithograph mounted on card; folded; backed with red paper; designed with four separate tracks; Noddy illustrations used across the whole board.\nNo. of squares: 40\nSquares illustrated: none\nSquare numbering: all\nSquares titled: some\nSubject of starting square: not named\nSubject of ending square: toy town station","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"B. & S. 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Bertha Upton (1849–1912) wrote the books and her daughter, Florence Kate Upton (1873–1922), illustrated them. They based the character ‘Golliwogg’ (as it was originally spelled) on a doll Florence owned as a child growing up in 1880s America. The appearance and clothing of the doll (see B.493-1997) is based on the ‘blackface minstrel’ figure, a 19th-century racial caricature of African Americans. Blackface minstrel shows were performed by white actors and singers, who parodied African Americans by darkening their skins with shoe polish or burnt cork. These portrayals perpetuated many negative stereotypes and were steeped in racism. The shows originated in the USA, with the first widely known blackface character, ‘Jim Crow’, appearing around 1830. Soon after it became popular in the UK, which developed its own blackface traditions.\n \nFlorence moved to the UK in the 1890s, where the Uptons’ books became very popular. Their Golliwogg character was not copyrighted, allowing multiple representations of the golly to enter the public domain. The character featured in British toys, games, textiles, ceramics and children’s books, and was used as a mascot by the food manufacturer, Robertson’s, from about 1910. From the 1980s the character’s popularity began to wane as campaigners fought against the racist stereotypes that the golly represented. Robertson’s continued to promote the figure as part of a British ‘national tradition’ until 2001, when they stopped using the golly in their branding. \r\n\r\nBased on the work of Enid Blyton.  The game was advertised as `new' in Games and Toys, October 1957, p. 108.\r\nTrademark of B&S is BESTIMES         \"BeStime\"                                                                       MADE IN ENGLAND\r\nThe rules are in the  form of a letter from Noddy.\r\nCGG-Games and Puzzles, 1991","historicalContext":"Rewards: forward movement\nForfeits: backward movement, missed turns\nNo. of Players: 4\nEquipment required: markers, in the form of a steam engine driven by Noddy, coloured plastic\nteetotum, marked 1 to 6 and 3 back, green plastic (it spins on a blue stand)\n\nRules placement: on the inside of lid","briefDescription":"Chromlithographed race game, Little Noddy's Train Game, made in England about 1958","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Mass produced","id":"THES48863"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["MISC.801:1-1986","MISC.801:2-1986"],"accessionNumberNum":"801","accessionNumberPrefix":"MISC","accessionYear":1986,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-31","recordCreationDate":"2000-03-04","availableToBook":false}}