A Battered Old Toy Fort From My Childhood

 I kept this fort and another one all this time since I played with it in the 1960s. I have been meaning to repair it but the missing tea tree(?) posts are stumping me. They are flat on one side and cutting some similar wood evenly down the middle is not something in my repertoire - I always had to take the class demo model in Woodwork because I never finished mine. I am thinking, someone somewhere must make them for something but so far, I have found nothing on the Internet.

  The Britains flag bearer and some of those Timpo cavalry also survived from my childhood wars with marbles, toy guns, elastic bands and so on. (No, I never, shudder, blew them up with crackers or shot them with air rifles).

                A corner roof was replaced, some years ago, with particle board. Repairing the corner bits should not be too hard. I already cut a new roof from Masonite. I'll have to have a think about the gates.

This fort was place on garage floor, backyard and on carpet floors and took a pounding from a fuselage of marbles. It was always safer to be in that solid fort, though, unlike the Indian attackers who tended to get mown down.

  One day when the fort is fixed up I'll display it with the figures my friend Pete and I used to use.

Pete's fort was similar, but he said his dad made it. The dimensions were much the same except there was a single long roof above the gates. I bought the fort and all Pete's toy soldiers when he became 'too old for toy soldiers' at some time in his early teens.