News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Saturday's flat but a busy Sunday and plenty going on in the week, it was 10½-weeks to Christmas the 'other day', but err . . . now it isn't! Don't forget the clocks give us an un-earned sixty-minutes in the early hours of Sunday morning, I may spend it writing a love letter to TJF!

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 27th October 2018

Brentwood - J&J Fairs

International Hall, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN

Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com

eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com

Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)

10:00 - Approx. 14:30hrs

Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2

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Sunday 28th October 2018

Chipping Norton - Don Davidson - Collectors Toy & Train Fair

Chipping Norton School, Burford Rd, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY

Web. - www.chippytoys.co.uk

Tel. - 01608 641 870

10:30 - 14:00hrs

Doncaster - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Doncaster Racecourse'

Doncaster Exhibition Centre, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission - Adults £4, Seniors £3.50p, Children £1, 'Early Bird' (from 8 a.m.) £10
Plenty of free parking

Great Bentley - R & G Toy Fairs
Village Hall, Plough Road, Great Bentley, Essex, CO7 8LD
Tel. - 01206 251 351 (Gary)
Tel. - 01255 473 509 (Richard)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2.00, under 16's free
Free parking, refreshments

Orpington - SRP Toyfairs
Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs

Plymouth - Events Frontier - 'Collect-a-Happy' Toy & Train Fair

Plymouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2BJ

Web. - www.eventsfrontier.com

eMail - eventsfrontier@hotmail.com

Mob. - 07508 548 938

Reading - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs

Rivermead Leisure Centre, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8QE

Tel. - 01270 652 773

Mob. - 07825 631 323

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £4.00, accompanied children under 16 free, 'early bird' (from08:30hrs) £10.00, from 'lazy bird' (from 09:30hrs) £7.00

Parking, refreshments, full facilities

Layouts and displays

Dateline show - dealers should carry stock up to 1995 only.

Seaford - Robert Horsecroft - Toy & Antique Collectors Fair

Downs Leisure Centre, Sutton Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 4QW

Tel. - 01323 899 879

Tel. - 01424 846 676

10:00 - 14:30hrs

Admission £1.50p, children under 12 free

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Tuesday 30th October 2018

Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - 36th Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)

Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ

Web. - www.newcomenfairs.co.uk

eMail - sales@newcomenfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01226 744 425

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission £1.50p, children 50p

Garstang - Janet Pearson (evening fair)

Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR

01282 439 009

18:00 - Finnish

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Thursday 1st November 2018

Theydon Bois - Joe Lock Fairs (evening fair)

Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex, CM16 7ER

Mob. - 07866 641 215

19:00-21:00hrs

Admission £1

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Auctions

Tuesday 30th October 2018

Heaton Mersey - Capes Dunn

40 Station Road, Heaton Mersey, Cheshire, SK4 3QT

Web. - www.capesdunn.com

eMail - capesdunn.caroline@gmail.com

Tel. - 01614 321 911

Collectors and Toy Auction

Newbury - Special Auction Services (SAS)

81 Greenham Business Park, Newbury, West Berkshire, RG19 6HW

Web: www.specialauctionservices.com

eMail: mail@specialauctionservices.com

Tel: 01635 580595

Fax: 0871 714 6905

'Express Toys'

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Wednesday 31st October 2018

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis

Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

'Dolls & Teddy Bears'

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Other Events

Friady 26^th – Sunday 28^th October 2018 (coming weekend)

London – MCM Expo / *reedpop / / Adnec Group – ‘Comicon London’

ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL

Web. - MCMLondonOctober@reedexpo.co.uk (promoters)

Web. - info@excel.london (site)

Tel. - +44 (0)208 271 2135 (promoters)

Tel. - +44 (0)20 7069 5000 (site)

Attractions - https://www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/

Running 'till January? (see note below)

Aldershot - Aldershot Military Museum (with Hampshire Cultural Trust) - The Everyday Tommy Exhibition

Aldershot Military Museum, Queens Avenue, Aldershot, hampshire, GU11 2LG

Web. - www.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/aldershot-military-museum

Tel. - 01252 314 598

Artist - Helen Chester's Portraits of the Great War

Although only just advertised in the county magazine, it appears from the museum website and Google in general that this actually ran last year! Check before travelling! However a new work by Helen, commissioned by the Garrison is on display now.

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If you are an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model, collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -

maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com

- stating the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features - parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event subject matter &etc.

And please mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in case they go to the 'junk' folder, from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're there!

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Toys in the media - Milk & More doorstep delivery advertisement in last week's free handout; ES Magazine, timed perfectly to coincide with the news that we all contain polymers, most of which we got from fish (in our guts and expelled) but a fair amount of which is dissolved from plastic food containers (like supermarket milk-bottles) by fats in the contents err . . . like milk and carried into our blood stream!

Look to be Noch or Preiser, I favour Noch (dare I say the paint's to fine for Preiser!), I could look them up but . . . with a scratch-built farm and hen-house and a bit of Photoshop!

Also in ES, who the very-actual-fuck pays 800-quid for a camouflage jacket, someone with more money than sense I fear! Still I'm probably biased - coming from it from the angle that the Queen gave me one for free which is still going after 34-years, although it's getting a bit holey, but presumably that just gets me closer to . . . oh, that's right, he doesn't exist!

It's not even a proper camouflage being the old DPM (1970-1990'ish) with the pale sand taken out, or replaced with a darker brown and the moss green toned down to lichen- it looks horrible, like someone's had explosive-diarrhea in a sleeping-bag! And parkas are supposed to have tails; it's what sets them apart from jackets?

The Levi's one is at least cheap - in comparison to the other two - and fur lined, but it looks like the sort of camouflage you'd find on Central American police or Putin's Donbass militia (perhaps that's who's buying them!), while the Canada Goose is another eight-hundred smackers for something than looks like Swedish army-surplus!

This is why the planet's dying before our eyes; the pink monkeys have lost all sense of reason.

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