In the final look back at some of the early years of the DWAS publication Celestial Toyroom we alight at 1978. In Gallifeyan tradition we've been travelling largely backwards in time from the early 80s and before 78 CT was more or less just a Swaps and Pen Pal zine so not really of significant interest even then. Unless of course you wanted to offer rare items for a genuine Chumbly bathmat or something. In 1978 however it became a monthly newsletter though back then news was much thinner on the ground than you might expect. In fact the front page was not current news at all but imagined headlines each relating to a particular Doctor Who story. Most of the news was included inside Jan Vincent Rudzki's Presidents Column while the rest to the issue comprised press cutting, announcements and, yes, still the swaps and pen pals which in fact went on for many years. So, here's some scans of some of the issues to give a flavour of what they were like. It may seem inconsequential now but back then we used to get quite excited by the arrival of each issue if only to try and guess what colour paper it might be printed on!
