2 February 2004
Evening Standard
'London Best of the Best - Quirky Attractions'
'Creepy for kids but fascinating for adults.'

January 2004
Philip Pullman talks to Robert Butler in the programme for 'His Dark Materials' at the National Theatre
'Did you ever think of doing a play set today?'
'How dull. No. Ordinary clothes? No, I wanted costumes. I wanted colour and spectacle. My source for all this was the toy theatre. Those lovely little things you can get from Pollock's. I've got the lot. I discovered them when I was grown-up and fell in love with them.'

14 January 2004
Radio 4, Front Row
The William West exhibition featured. Exhibition runs until 27 March, 2004.

16 August 2003
The Spectator
'Toy Theatres - Mr Punch Revisited' by Elisabeth Anderson,
'Step inside and you appear to have left the 21st century behind. Pollock's Toy Museum is the fulfilment of an adult's childhood dreams: a treasure house of old-fashioned toys. ...The lease on the two Scala Street houses runs out next year, and Pollock's is trying to raise the money to buy the freehold. It would be sad if this small museum were to close and a unique period piece were to be lost forever.'

14 August 2003
Camden New Journal
'Punch hits the Huddlines'
'A toy museum is not normally the place that you would expect to see one of Britain's most celebrated artists, but on Monday night that was where Peter Blake could be found. The artist who was responsible for such iconic images as the cover for the seminal Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band went to Pollock's Toy Museum in Scala Street, Fitzrovia, on Monday evening, to see the opening of a new exhibition about Punch, one half of the world's most famous puppet double act. "I have my own Punch set so I came along so I could see all the different Punches in the exhibition" the artist told Diary over a glass of wine. "I had a look around and it is a wonderful exhibition."
The display, which runs until October 14, features dozens of ancient Punches, along with late 18th-century Punch and Judy prints. Indeed, it sounds as though Mr Blake's own set would not have looked out of place in the exhibition. Also present to help cut the string of false sausages - in lieu of a ribbon - was the veteran comedian Roy Hudd who also plays Archie Shuttleworth in Coronation Street.'

16 March, 2003
The Independent on Sunday
'The Art of Toys - Yes, but do her breasts jiggle?' by Vera Rule,
'I'd been treading heavily on the wonky floors in Pollock's Toy Museum in the hope that the Happy Handbell Ringer would jiggle as promised on her label. The toy-making artist had based her, the label explained, right down to her hair of unravelled sisal, on a lady seen in a parish hall circa 1971. But the boards were too solid to do more than sway the rigging of a boat in the small case of Smith exhibits currently sharing the attic with an affronted tea party of wax dolls.' (on the exhibition 'Sam Smith, Toys Grow Up' 24 February to 26April.
See www.sam-smith.org)

10 May 2003
Radio 4 broadcast
'Mr Pollock's Theatre'
A 30 minute programme produced by Merilyn Harris, presented by Simon Callow, and including interviews with toy theatre experts George Speaight and Peter Baldwin.