Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Actor Peter Baldwin, 74, is one of Europe’s leading collectors of toy theatres, the paper sheets of scenery and ...

Long before the days of film and television, families made their own entertainment. In the 1800s middle-class families such as the Everitts staged plays at home with their own miniature toy theatres.

Toy theatres were a popular form of entertainment in Victorian times. Once made you could buy plays to put on - hundreds of popular West End plays were reproduced for toy theatres. This Pollock’s Toy ...

Toy theatres were a popular form of entertainment in Victorian times. Once made you could buy plays to put on - hundreds of popular West End plays were reproduced for toy theatres. This Pollock’s Toy ...

The toy theatre collection of the late Coronation Street actor Peter Baldwin is to go up for sale at auction. Baldwin, who was best known for playing the role of Derek Wilton for more than 20 years in ...

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill was the first private house to be built in the Gothic style. It began modestly in 1747 as a suburban riverside villa near Twickenham, leased to a Mrs Chenevix who ran ...

Baldwin, who was best known for playing the role of Derek Wilton for more than 20 years in the TV soap, collected them and even had a shop selling them in London's Covent Garden. The actor, who died ...