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Bayko builder kits
...be of a certain age. You can still find over forty Bayko models on display at 'planetdiecast.com'. There is now a Bayko Builders Facebook Group and a Bayko Club for enthusiasts ...
Bayko builder kits
...be of a certain age. You can still find over forty Bayko models on display at 'planetdiecast.com'. There is now a Bayko Builders Facebook Group and a Bayko Club for enthusiasts ...
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Capsela Building Sets
Capsela Building Sets were rather strange and obscure 80's construction sets that centred around perspex spheres containing something mechanical such as a motor, clutch, or gearbox, each known as capsules. Each capsule had 6 octagonal pegs which...
Capsela Building Sets
Capsela Building Sets were rather strange and obscure 80's construction sets that centred around perspex spheres containing something mechanical such as a motor, clutch, or gearbox, each known as capsules. Each capsule had 6 octagonal pegs which...
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Build a Better Burger
Build a Better Burger was a 1980s game where you had to create a burger from rubber burger pieces: bun, burger, lettuce etc. all with the funny rubber bits. And you had to do this before the tall burger tower stop clock finished. It was a large ...
Build a Better Burger
Build a Better Burger was a 1980s game where you had to create a burger from rubber burger pieces: bun, burger, lettuce etc. all with the funny rubber bits. And you had to do this before the tall burger tower stop clock finished. It was a large ...
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The Builders
Reality TV show following builders in various parts of the UK. It was in the 90s and followed a company down south who had 2 jobs going on next door to each other. A brickie in yorkshire who built a self build for a couple. ...
The Builders
Reality TV show following builders in various parts of the UK. It was in the 90s and followed a company down south who had 2 jobs going on next door to each other. A brickie in yorkshire who built a self build for a couple. ...
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Microchip Electronics
...n of electronic components including resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors, diodes, and an LF353 op-amp IC.You could build over 100 circuits including metal detectors, motor controllers, and sound effects generators around this very versatile...
Microchip Electronics
...n of electronic components including resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors, diodes, and an LF353 op-amp IC.You could build over 100 circuits including metal detectors, motor controllers, and sound effects generators around this very versatile...
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Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
...ir hero. I was definitely a Spiderman devotee because of his ability to fire off quick-witted quips while swinging from building to building and, thankfully, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends continued that portrayal. All three superheroes...
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
...ir hero. I was definitely a Spiderman devotee because of his ability to fire off quick-witted quips while swinging from building to building and, thankfully, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends continued that portrayal. All three superheroes...
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The Crystal Maze
...ut all of these have now closed. There is still a children’s style Crystal Maze at a fun centre in Kent and many team building companies offer people the chance to enrage their business colleagues by not being able to fit some jigsaw pieces to...
The Crystal Maze
...ut all of these have now closed. There is still a children’s style Crystal Maze at a fun centre in Kent and many team building companies offer people the chance to enrage their business colleagues by not being able to fit some jigsaw pieces to...
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Beadle's About
...rk. After a hard day you arrive home to discover that your front lawn has been freshly dug up by the most stereotypical builder you've ever come across in your life, who is now claiming that the council have discovered an oil reserve under your ...
Beadle's About
...rk. After a hard day you arrive home to discover that your front lawn has been freshly dug up by the most stereotypical builder you've ever come across in your life, who is now claiming that the council have discovered an oil reserve under your ...
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie
...es on a day-to-day basis) John and Peter take over a public toilet, or to put their spin on it, they get ‘a chance to build the finest damned personal relief centre Uttoxeter has ever known.’ Further down the line the two progress from urina...
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
...es on a day-to-day basis) John and Peter take over a public toilet, or to put their spin on it, they get ‘a chance to build the finest damned personal relief centre Uttoxeter has ever known.’ Further down the line the two progress from urina...
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Gripidee Gravidee (Grippity Gravity)
...dee line. Which was a shame, as modern children can now only bang their heads against computer screens and PRETEND they build things.One big technical fault of this toy is the enormous strain on the internal gearing that resembles a mini-transmi...
Gripidee Gravidee (Grippity Gravity)
...dee line. Which was a shame, as modern children can now only bang their heads against computer screens and PRETEND they build things.One big technical fault of this toy is the enormous strain on the internal gearing that resembles a mini-transmi...
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Troop Beverly Hills
...ughter and help the local troop, which are a laughing stock, she becomes a troup leader. But instead of the usual 'tent building' badges, she tutors the girls in diamond appraisal and fashion. Then the troop goes up against a hardcore wilderness...
Troop Beverly Hills
...ughter and help the local troop, which are a laughing stock, she becomes a troup leader. But instead of the usual 'tent building' badges, she tutors the girls in diamond appraisal and fashion. Then the troop goes up against a hardcore wilderness...
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Action Jacks
...seven different sets of Action Jack that ranged from the 'Rescue Team', 'Space Explorer', 'The Road Builder' and 'Snow Patrol' two figure original sets to the Western, Military Action and Action Jack Soldier singl...
Action Jacks
...seven different sets of Action Jack that ranged from the 'Rescue Team', 'Space Explorer', 'The Road Builder' and 'Snow Patrol' two figure original sets to the Western, Military Action and Action Jack Soldier singl...
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Air Jammer Cycle Slammer
... Slammer was a bike that was powered by air pressure. You used a stirrup type air pump fixed to the rear of the bike to build up air pressure, and when you got it up to a certain pressure you "launched" the Bike and it would fly off. This was qu...
Air Jammer Cycle Slammer
... Slammer was a bike that was powered by air pressure. You used a stirrup type air pump fixed to the rear of the bike to build up air pressure, and when you got it up to a certain pressure you "launched" the Bike and it would fly off. This was qu...
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Betta Bilda
I remember having Betta Bilda when I was about 6 years old,1961. It was the favourite of all my toys. I used to build farm houses and was given the accessories like ponds, animals, fences, swings etc and I spent half my life making differen...
Betta Bilda
I remember having Betta Bilda when I was about 6 years old,1961. It was the favourite of all my toys. I used to build farm houses and was given the accessories like ponds, animals, fences, swings etc and I spent half my life making differen...
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Water Wiggler
...oud, turn off the hose!"Plus, I was getting really good at dodging the head-beatings. Sigh, memories... (I intend to build one, somehow. Anybody got the original head? It is the only thing I can't fake...)...
Water Wiggler
...oud, turn off the hose!"Plus, I was getting really good at dodging the head-beatings. Sigh, memories... (I intend to build one, somehow. Anybody got the original head? It is the only thing I can't fake...)...
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Crazy Foam
... was basically a can of shaving foam with one of several different-shaped/coloured caps. It was alleged that you could 'build' the foam into whatever you could imagine (you needed a good imagination to believe your creation resembled anything ot...
Crazy Foam
... was basically a can of shaving foam with one of several different-shaped/coloured caps. It was alleged that you could 'build' the foam into whatever you could imagine (you needed a good imagination to believe your creation resembled anything ot...
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Kimberly
...rly dressed in a long, flowing gown. You could also purchase the different Kimberly costumers separately.Because of the build of Kimberly you could move her head and limbs in different positions and if you got it just right, she could stand up b...
Kimberly
...rly dressed in a long, flowing gown. You could also purchase the different Kimberly costumers separately.Because of the build of Kimberly you could move her head and limbs in different positions and if you got it just right, she could stand up b...
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Legions of Power
... exception of the two leaders.Released in 1986 by Tonka the motorised machines all came as separate parts so you had to build them together. There were instructions showing you how to build the different Legions of Power vehicles or alternativel...
Legions of Power
... exception of the two leaders.Released in 1986 by Tonka the motorised machines all came as separate parts so you had to build them together. There were instructions showing you how to build the different Legions of Power vehicles or alternativel...
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Lincoln (Linkin) Logs
....The original Lincoln logs set, released way back in 1916 was Uncle Tom's Cabin and you got full instructions on how to build it. Lincoln logs were originally made of wood but by the 1970s all of the wood was replaced with plastic, but it's now ...
Lincoln (Linkin) Logs
....The original Lincoln logs set, released way back in 1916 was Uncle Tom's Cabin and you got full instructions on how to build it. Lincoln logs were originally made of wood but by the 1970s all of the wood was replaced with plastic, but it's now ...
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Maple Town
Maple Town "dolls" were all animal families. I remember having a lot of these, they had litle houses and buildings that you could get to go with them, and I played with these all of the time. They were like having a "dollhouse" but with animals ...
Maple Town
Maple Town "dolls" were all animal families. I remember having a lot of these, they had litle houses and buildings that you could get to go with them, and I played with these all of the time. They were like having a "dollhouse" but with animals ...
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Monster Mash
...lay it at any one time. It has 27 monster cards and a “monster-maker machine”. So the aim of the game is to make or build a complete monster- and for this you need card with three pairs of eyes, three mouths, three bodies. The machine spins ...
Monster Mash
...lay it at any one time. It has 27 monster cards and a “monster-maker machine”. So the aim of the game is to make or build a complete monster- and for this you need card with three pairs of eyes, three mouths, three bodies. The machine spins ...
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Saboteur
Saboteur - a spectrum game by Ocean where you play a ninja, sneaking into a building to retrieve disks/ neucler missile codes/ something and blow up a building. A bit like Metal Gear Solid. ...
Saboteur
Saboteur - a spectrum game by Ocean where you play a ninja, sneaking into a building to retrieve disks/ neucler missile codes/ something and blow up a building. A bit like Metal Gear Solid. ...
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The Plank
Short slapstick comedy film made c.1978, completely without words.Eric Sykes played a building worker who is taking a large, long plank of wood to his construction site when, via a series of comic mishaps, he loses it and it goes on to cause hav...
The Plank
Short slapstick comedy film made c.1978, completely without words.Eric Sykes played a building worker who is taking a large, long plank of wood to his construction site when, via a series of comic mishaps, he loses it and it goes on to cause hav...
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VIcky the viking
...use he would always use his wit and intelligence to get one over on the bullies.In the film (yes, there was a film!) he builds a make-shift catapult to beat his father in a stone ferrying contest. Ah, we all remember that first time we beat our ...
VIcky the viking
...use he would always use his wit and intelligence to get one over on the bullies.In the film (yes, there was a film!) he builds a make-shift catapult to beat his father in a stone ferrying contest. Ah, we all remember that first time we beat our ...
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Revrods
...t shift, and with some home-made ramps, had a blast with my workmates launching it across the smooth flooring of a huge building...I am much much older than twelve too by the way :-( I filmed it on my phone too :-)Revrods are extremely rare now,...
Revrods
...t shift, and with some home-made ramps, had a blast with my workmates launching it across the smooth flooring of a huge building...I am much much older than twelve too by the way :-( I filmed it on my phone too :-)Revrods are extremely rare now,...
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Birds of a Feather
...he girls eventually set up a swimming pool business (I can’t remember exactly what this involved – it may have been building them, it may have been simply cleaning them – it doesn’t make much difference to anything either way). This may ...
Birds of a Feather
...he girls eventually set up a swimming pool business (I can’t remember exactly what this involved – it may have been building them, it may have been simply cleaning them – it doesn’t make much difference to anything either way). This may ...
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Mega Star
... dropped from the Road Rods line; these were repackaged into the Custom Kit and Dekuxe Custom kit, allowing children to build a Stomper themselves. 1985 brought the Monster 4x4s, much larger vehicles powered by C-cell batteries. Also new were th...
Mega Star
... dropped from the Road Rods line; these were repackaged into the Custom Kit and Dekuxe Custom kit, allowing children to build a Stomper themselves. 1985 brought the Monster 4x4s, much larger vehicles powered by C-cell batteries. Also new were th...
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Petrocelli
...lawyer solving his cases. He lived in a static caravan with his wife Donna. They lived in the caravan because they were building a house on the land.When he was in court, Petrocelli would cross-examine the suspect and then he would tell it how i...
Petrocelli
...lawyer solving his cases. He lived in a static caravan with his wife Donna. They lived in the caravan because they were building a house on the land.When he was in court, Petrocelli would cross-examine the suspect and then he would tell it how i...
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Northridge Earthquake
...thquakes. It registered 6.1 on the Richter scale. There was a lot of damage. 17 people were killed when their apartment building collapsed. A CHP officer was killed when he rode off a bridge that had just collapsed....
Northridge Earthquake
...thquakes. It registered 6.1 on the Richter scale. There was a lot of damage. 17 people were killed when their apartment building collapsed. A CHP officer was killed when he rode off a bridge that had just collapsed....
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band
...their first Number One in the summer of that year with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy Diddy", written by the famous New York Brill Building song writing duo of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. They also found themselves in the vanguard of the British pop in...
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
...their first Number One in the summer of that year with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy Diddy", written by the famous New York Brill Building song writing duo of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. They also found themselves in the vanguard of the British pop in...
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Dark Tower
...brigands, which you could parry with purchases from the bazaars or helpful discoveries in the tombs. You also needed to build your army up to give you a fighting chance of successfully attacking the tower (loud battle cries were optional at this...
Dark Tower
...brigands, which you could parry with purchases from the bazaars or helpful discoveries in the tombs. You also needed to build your army up to give you a fighting chance of successfully attacking the tower (loud battle cries were optional at this...
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Romancing The Stone
...e to blossom, and over dinner it appears to. This scene is brilliantly directed, with the camera swapping between their building chemistry and the bungling Ralph, who is crawling under the restaurant tables to try and steal the map from Joan’s...
Romancing The Stone
...e to blossom, and over dinner it appears to. This scene is brilliantly directed, with the camera swapping between their building chemistry and the bungling Ralph, who is crawling under the restaurant tables to try and steal the map from Joan’s...
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The Karate Kid: Part 2
...me along for the ride and soon falls in love with Sato's (Miyagi's old foe) son's girlfriend.With all this love tension building up, Sato finally makes peace and leaves Daniel and his son to fight to the death for the hand of the girl....
The Karate Kid: Part 2
...me along for the ride and soon falls in love with Sato's (Miyagi's old foe) son's girlfriend.With all this love tension building up, Sato finally makes peace and leaves Daniel and his son to fight to the death for the hand of the girl....
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The Great Egg Race
... Egg Race was a simply fantastic programme from the late 70s / early 80s fronted by Professor Heinz Wolff. Teams had to build simple wheeled devices powered solely by an egg! At the same time other teams had to solve engineering problems with li...
The Great Egg Race
... Egg Race was a simply fantastic programme from the late 70s / early 80s fronted by Professor Heinz Wolff. Teams had to build simple wheeled devices powered solely by an egg! At the same time other teams had to solve engineering problems with li...
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Betta Bilda
Betta Bilda (often mistaken for 'Better Builder') was a cheaper version of Lego with little white bricks and small squares of plastic that you clicked together to make "slate" roofs. Although Lego took over the universe, I personally preferred B...
Betta Bilda
Betta Bilda (often mistaken for 'Better Builder') was a cheaper version of Lego with little white bricks and small squares of plastic that you clicked together to make "slate" roofs. Although Lego took over the universe, I personally preferred B...
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Tank Command
...!). I remember trying to take the plungers apart and working out the mechanism. I had a fantasy that I might be able to build a large one in the back garden and wreak havoc with the neighbourhood! I never did build one. Though I did wreak hav...
Tank Command
...!). I remember trying to take the plungers apart and working out the mechanism. I had a fantasy that I might be able to build a large one in the back garden and wreak havoc with the neighbourhood! I never did build one. Though I did wreak hav...
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Oh Happy Band!
...heir instruments in a bunch of hot-air balloons. In another episode the band became involved in campaigning to stop the building of a new local airport. The show was broadcast on the BBC....
Oh Happy Band!
...heir instruments in a bunch of hot-air balloons. In another episode the band became involved in campaigning to stop the building of a new local airport. The show was broadcast on the BBC....
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Robert Kennedy
...ur small, cottages located along a driveway off of a main street. At the end of the driveway were a four-unit apartment building; two apartments down stairs and two upstairs. There were policemen outside the door of the upstairs apartment on the...
Robert Kennedy
...ur small, cottages located along a driveway off of a main street. At the end of the driveway were a four-unit apartment building; two apartments down stairs and two upstairs. There were policemen outside the door of the upstairs apartment on the...
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Lionel Richie
... famous songs, Hello, he plays a college teacher who falls for one of his students, and creepily follows her around the building without her knowing, leaning against nearby walls in a stripey jumper and the kind of linen jacket with rolled up sl...
Lionel Richie
... famous songs, Hello, he plays a college teacher who falls for one of his students, and creepily follows her around the building without her knowing, leaning against nearby walls in a stripey jumper and the kind of linen jacket with rolled up sl...
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Railroader
This was a game where you had little plastic trains and tracks and had to build your railroad across the old West of America. You also had boxes of dynamite to sabotage your opponents' efforts. It was made by Waddington's in 1963 and today I fin...
Railroader
This was a game where you had little plastic trains and tracks and had to build your railroad across the old West of America. You also had boxes of dynamite to sabotage your opponents' efforts. It was made by Waddington's in 1963 and today I fin...
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Punky Brewster
...s about an eight-year-old, named Punky who is abandoned by her mother in a grocery store. She comes across an apartment building and one day is found playing in an empty room by Henry, the building superintendent. Henry takes Punky in as his fos...
Punky Brewster
...s about an eight-year-old, named Punky who is abandoned by her mother in a grocery store. She comes across an apartment building and one day is found playing in an empty room by Henry, the building superintendent. Henry takes Punky in as his fos...
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The special beginning of Playmobil
In the 1980s we were two kinds of children in our neighborhood: Those who enjoyed building challenges with Lego bricks and those fared into adventures with castles or pirateships in realm of Playmobil.A very brief recap of Playmobil history. Bac...
The special beginning of Playmobil
In the 1980s we were two kinds of children in our neighborhood: Those who enjoyed building challenges with Lego bricks and those fared into adventures with castles or pirateships in realm of Playmobil.A very brief recap of Playmobil history. Bac...
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Fantastic Max
...oon about a 16 month-old-boy, who, when no one was about, his toys (AB Sitter and FX) would come to life, and Max would build a rocket in the garden sandpit, and FX would twiddle his antenna, saying 'ROCKET AND ROLL!', which would transform the ...
Fantastic Max
...oon about a 16 month-old-boy, who, when no one was about, his toys (AB Sitter and FX) would come to life, and Max would build a rocket in the garden sandpit, and FX would twiddle his antenna, saying 'ROCKET AND ROLL!', which would transform the ...
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Metropolis (re-launch, 1984)
...rbou.The time: 2026 AD. The place: the colossal Middle European city-state of Metropolis, where mile-high Art Deco mega-buildings thrust into skies alive with aircraft, and motor vehicles jostle along multi-level flyovers between huge neon signs...
Metropolis (re-launch, 1984)
...rbou.The time: 2026 AD. The place: the colossal Middle European city-state of Metropolis, where mile-high Art Deco mega-buildings thrust into skies alive with aircraft, and motor vehicles jostle along multi-level flyovers between huge neon signs...
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Hoverboards
...g the technology behind it for far more practical purposes. They reckon it can be used, on a bigger scale, to stabilise buildings caught in earthquakes, for example. One of the founders of Hendo, Greg Henderson, says ‘The hoverboard is the fir...
Hoverboards
...g the technology behind it for far more practical purposes. They reckon it can be used, on a bigger scale, to stabilise buildings caught in earthquakes, for example. One of the founders of Hendo, Greg Henderson, says ‘The hoverboard is the fir...
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Tupperware Toys
...s featured simple plastic people. There were many play sets such as a playground, school bus that turned into a school building, and Noah's ark. There were also animals that you could take apart and rebuild, a train you could take apart, and a...
Tupperware Toys
...s featured simple plastic people. There were many play sets such as a playground, school bus that turned into a school building, and Noah's ark. There were also animals that you could take apart and rebuild, a train you could take apart, and a...
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Great Storm of 1987 (UK)
...yde Park and Bedgebury National Pinetum amongst others all lost historic trees. The blowing over of many others damaged buildings and cars, knocked out power supplies and blocked roads and railway lines, leaving public transport in London virtua...
Great Storm of 1987 (UK)
...yde Park and Bedgebury National Pinetum amongst others all lost historic trees. The blowing over of many others damaged buildings and cars, knocked out power supplies and blocked roads and railway lines, leaving public transport in London virtua...
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To The Manor Born
...sh father, Richard moved to the UK in 1939.His humble beginnings on an East End fruit stall gave him the foundations to build what is now his empire; the Cavendish Foods chain of supermarkets. He has also been recently widowed, something which c...
To The Manor Born
...sh father, Richard moved to the UK in 1939.His humble beginnings on an East End fruit stall gave him the foundations to build what is now his empire; the Cavendish Foods chain of supermarkets. He has also been recently widowed, something which c...
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Vision On
...e Burbles, who lived inside a clock and communicated via speech bubbles. The cartoon ‘The Digger’ used a spade on a building site to find interesting things and Humphrey the Tortoise delighted in making jokes in a written format, sometimes t...
Vision On
...e Burbles, who lived inside a clock and communicated via speech bubbles. The cartoon ‘The Digger’ used a spade on a building site to find interesting things and Humphrey the Tortoise delighted in making jokes in a written format, sometimes t...
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Lego
...heir own objects. The beauty of Lego is that once you've completed a project you can simply take it all apart again and build something else. The flexibility of Lego designing has led to pleny of artists and enthusiasts creating their own unique...
Lego
...heir own objects. The beauty of Lego is that once you've completed a project you can simply take it all apart again and build something else. The flexibility of Lego designing has led to pleny of artists and enthusiasts creating their own unique...
