This Bruin Boys Tidleywinks Game, by Chad Valley Games, is designed very much like the various Mickey Mouse Tidleywinks Disney games. This game exhibits the same arrangement of cartoon characters as on the Mickey Mouse Tidley Winks game both on the cover of the game and also on the game target.
The Bruin Boys characters attended Mrs. Bruin’s Boarding School and were first created by Julius Stafford Baker in 1904 for the Daily Mirror newspaper in London, England, which was owned by the Amalgamated Press. However, Herbert Sydney Foxwell drew the characters from 1914 to 1933, and then Bert Wymer through the 1950s. This game was produced in the 1930s (estimate).
The Bruin Boys characters depicted on the cover of this game are, from left to right: Tiger Tim, Jacko Monkey, Mrs. Bruin, Porkyboy Pig, and Bobby Bruin.
title • TIDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley Games
item • game cover
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
title • TIDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley Games
item • contents
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
title • TIDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley Games
item • rules under box lid
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Sooty the bear was a puppet originated by Harry Corbett that first appeared in a BBC 1 children’s television series starting in 1952.
Chad Valley Games produced several tiddlywinks games featuring Sooty on the cover and game target.
title • SOOTY TIDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley
item • game cover
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
title • SOOTY TIDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley
item • contents
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
title • SOOTY TIDDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley
item • game cover
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
title • SOOTY TIDDLEYWINKS
publisher • Chad Valley
item • contents
photograph by • Rick Tucker
original at • Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection
licensable per • Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0