Cassette tape
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 2002
Materials
Plastic and printed paper
Measurements
109 x 69 x 16 mm
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671928.2
Summary
One of a collection of 41 cassette tapes used with the Fisher-Price cassette player 671927. It is enclosed in a clear plastic case with a printed paper insert. This one is a story tape - 'Owl Babies and Other Favourite Stories', written by Martin Waddell and Amy MacDonald, and read by Nigel Anthony and Nerys Hughes.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Richard Frankham in July 2016, along with a Fisher-Price cassette player that was bought for his third birthday in 1988, later used by his mother at a nursery and later still played with by his mother's great niece and her cousins.