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Friday again!

Ongoing Nastiness

I must firstly thank Matthias Berthoux (aka: Breizh44) and Paul Stadinger (aka: The Jabbering F**k or TJF) for their juvenile rant'gasm yesterday over in Vichy, I think it got me another 25 hits or so, and hoping I get the 'three million' up in time for the Blog's tenth birthday I guess every little helps! In my dust guys children, and that's not egotism, that's the fact of the matter.

Show Dates

Right, to the business at hand, Sandown Park tomorrow, and 'only' Sandown Park - for toys; best show in the UK really, and last one this year, so be there or, err . . . be somewhere else . . . but you'll miss-out! C&T Auctioneers in the week, not the headline one which is still a month away, but there's plenty of good stuff in this one too.

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 10th November 2018

Sandown Park / Esher - Barry Potter / BP Fairs

Exhibition Centre, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ

Web. - www.bpfairs.com

Tel. - 01604 846 688

Mob. - 07966 527 177

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission - Adults £6.50p, seniors £6, children £2, early bird (from 08.00hrs) £10.00

Tons of free parking, I mean, like; bring a convoy, there's room for 100-trucks down the bottom!

Torquay - Events Frontier - 'Devcon' & 'Collect-a-Happy'

Torquay Town Hall, Castle Circus, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 3DR

Web. - www.eventsfrontier.com

eMail - eventsfrontier@hotmail.com

Mob. - 07508 548 938

Sci-fi, Film & Comic Convention [alongside the] Toy & Train Fair

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Sunday 11th November 2018

Chester-le-Street - Jim Corr Fairs

Lord Lawson Academy, Birtly Lane, Birtly, DH3 2LF

eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07504 035 955

10:00 - 15:00hrs

Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2, 'Early Bird' £5

Ipswich - Phil Cooper - Toy, Train & Diecast Collectors Fair

Copdock Village Hall, London Road, Copdock, IP8 3JN

Internet presence unknown

Mob. I - 01787 372 559 (Phil Cooper)

Mob. II - 01787 280 452 (Bill Bourne)

Hours unknown

Admission charge unknown

Light refreshments and bar facilities

Malvern - Bulldog Fairs

The Seven Hall, Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NW UK

Web. - www.bulldogfairs.com

eMail - bulldogfairs@aol.com

Tel. - 01373 452 857

Mob. - 07917 125 641

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Adults £4, under 16's free if accompanied, early-bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.

Rayleigh - SRP Toyfairs

Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 9BZ

Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk

eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

Wirral - Barry Stockton Fairs - Merseyside Hobbies & Model Railway Show

Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5DH
Web. - http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/
Tel. - 01513 343 362
10:30 - 15:30
Admission - Adult £4.50p, Children £1

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Tuesday 13th November 2018

Hook - Steven Clements Fairs - Hook Evening Fair

Hook Community Centre, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9NN (Near Basingrad!)

Tel. - 01380 725 322

Mob. - 07958 101 891

eMail: clementfairs@aol.com

18:30 - 21:30hrs

Admission charge unknown

Free Parking

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Wednesday 14th November 2018

Hertford - Joe Lock Fairs (Evening Fair)

Richard Hale School, Hale Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 8EN

Internet presence unknown

Mob. - 07866 641 215

19:00-21:00hrs

Admission £1

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Friday 16th November 2018

Alfreton - Toy and Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening fair

The Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD

Web. - www.tttf.co.uk

Mob. - 07951 072 790

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Auctions

Tuesday 13th November 2018

Essex - Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers

Cambridge Road, Stanstead, Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8GE

Web. - wwwsworder.co.uk

Tel. - 01279 817 778

Sale Starts 10:00hrs

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Wednesday 14th November 2018

Tunbridge Wells - C&T Auctioneers

The York Suite, The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8XJ (Venue)

Unit 4, High House Business Park, Kenardington, Near Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LF (Auction House)

Web. - www.candtauctions.co.uk

eMail - enquiries@candtauctions.co.uk

Valuations - jamesopie@yahoo.co.uk

Tel. - 44 1233 510 050 (from abroad)

Tel. - 01233 510 050 (within the UK)

Viewing from 08:30hrs, sale starts 10:00hrs

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Thursday/Friday 15th/16th November 2018

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis (2-day sale)

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

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

Thursday 15th - general toys

Friday 16th - trains/model railways

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Overseas Events

Sunday 11th November 2018

Dublin Toy & Train Fair - Chris Dyer Fairs

The Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Dublin, Eire

Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01643 702 757

Mob. - 07966 694 579

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £4

Just off N11 trunk road

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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

Propaganda postcard from 1918

Sorry Prussians, sorry Austro-Hungarians, but it's pretty obvious who's wining here, but then it IS propaganda! Of interest is the variety of artillery pieces in use and particularly the Pom-pom in the foreground, which although on a tripod, is very similar to Granddad's silver-plate keepsake, also, it's clear those little red boxes looked tatty from 'the off'!

Also note the Zouaves in the background and how pleased the two small boys look as their picklehaubed columns are utterly decimated! And a fair amount of the toy artillery would have been pre-war imports . . . from Germany!