Bargain-hunters were out in force at the first Didcot Toy Collectors' Fair of 2002.

Stallholder Keith Glancy was among more than 25 stallholders at the Civic Hall, offering an assortment of old and new toys, including die-cast vehicles and the massive Star Wars range.

Mr Clancy, 67, of Woodley, near Reading, was selling a wide range of old die-cast Dinky and Corgi toys. Dinky tank transporters, complete with tank, were marked at £45 compared with the equivalent of 65p when they went on sale in the 1950s.

Although the first Star Wars film was released more than 25 years ago, stallholder and collector Mark Pickard, 28, of Abingdon, reported a brisk trade in his newly-imported Power of the Jedi figures.

Toy fair organiser Jim Oram, of Heckfield, Hampshire, said the Didcot fairs, held on the first Sunday of every month, attracted collectors from as far afield as Birmingham and Bristol.