A reasonable fine morning and a lovely simple scenic cruise plotted by Sue and Ernie Martin saw us travel through Alfriston, Brookby, Whitford Township, around Trig Road to the end of Potts Road at the mouth of ‘Turanga Creek’ which runs up to Whitford. We had a photo shoot here where the sun was shining down on our MGs. The tide was in and the backdrop across the channel into Shelly Park in Howick was magnificent.

From here we continued on Clifton Road for about 1.5kms to our destination at Bill’s Farm, with spectacular views across the water to Pine Harbour Marina at Beachlands.

His collection is housed in a very large, new, purpose built shed with rows and rows of show cases, display shelves and a carpeted floor. The show cases are full of match box, Fun Ho and Tonka toys etc. The shelves have 70 trikes, many prams, pedal cars, and pedal tractors displayed.

There is also a collection of over 1,000 dolls.

We sat inside to have our lunch then ventured to another very large shed which was absolutely full of (as found) old tractors. To view them you had to climb over them. At one end of the shed was a large mezzanine floor, packed to the rafters with old trikes and bikes that Bill had salvaged over many years from roadside inorganic collections.