Time capsule containing everything a small boy needed in the days before TV's and computer games included a train set, tin soldiers, a clockwork flying machine called an autogyro and a cork gun, along with wooden figures, games and letters of the alphabet etc.

The couple, from Aberystwyth, Mid Wales, have loaned the toys to the town's museum where they are on display for the Xbox generation to see.

"It is an absolute treasure, showing the childhood of a boy growing up in the 1930s," said museum curator Michael Freeman.

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