Tressy

In 1953, the doll 'Tressy' was the first to have rooted hair followed by 'Tiny Tears' in 1965.

Palitoy was a hugely successful toy company based at Coalville from 1937 until 1986 responsible for Action Man, Tressy and Tiny Tears, to name but a few.

Tressy Arts, chief editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary, said, "When I was a student in the nineties, I used an Arabic-English and an English-Arabic dictionary from the seventies.

Tressy Arts, chief editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary, said: "When I was a student in the nineties, I used an Arabic-English and an English-Arabic dictionary from the seventies.

Tressy Arts, chief editor of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary, said: "When I was a student in the 90s, I used an Arabic-English and an English-Arabic dictionary from the seventies.

Of course what signalled the end of the Christmas season were the inevitable holiday adverts - I was so disappointed when the adverts for Mousetrap and Tressy ("her hair grows"!) stopped and Callers Pegasus adverts started.

A.A., Kilmarnock READING your article about Sindy and Barbie made me think back to my childhood when my favourite doll was Tressy. Her hair grew by turning a small disc in her back.

On top of that Father Christmas brought me my longed-for nurse's uniform, fluffy slippers and a Tressy doll - what more could a girl want?