. . . last weeks weird strings of letters will have looked like this . . . if you've downloaded the 'SoldierWW2' font from the internet, if your Explorer recognises it, it can read it/will show it - my bad, I didn't think I'd be in a cognitive resonance design bubble of my own making! That last line will give Madame Pardeilhan kittens!
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
Toy Fairs
Saturday 18th May 2019
Merthyr
Tydfil - Chris Dyer Fairs
Merthyr Leisure Centre, Methyr Leisure
Village, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, CF48 1UT
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643
702 757
Mob. - 07966
694 579
Admission £2
10:30-15:00hrs
Brentwood - J&J Fairs (John
& Julie Webb)
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
Oxford - Richard Atkins Fairs -
Toy and Train Collectors Fair
Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington,
Oxford, OX5 1AB
Tel. - 01869 347 489
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Refreshments
Free Parking
Didcot
- Retro
Ronnie
Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN
Web - www.retroronnie.com
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
Hours unknown
Admission unknown
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
Sunday 19th May 2019
Great
Bentley - R
& G Toy Fairs
Village Hall, Plough Road, Great Bentley,
Essex, CO7 8LD
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01206 251 351 (Gary)
Tel. - 01255 473 509 (Richard)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2.00, under 16's free
Free parking, refreshments
Newton
Abbot - Ray
Heard Train & Toy Fairs
Newton Abbot Racecourse, Devon, TQ12 3AF
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00 - 15:30hrs
Admission £2
Free parking, refreshments
Kempton
Park - RM
Toys Ltd.
Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East,
Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 02392 381 529
Mob. - 07957 823 507 (Russell Martin)
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission - £4, OAP's £3.50p, Children £1,
early bird (from 8:30hrs) £10
Doncaster - Barry
Potter / BP Fairs - 'Doncaster Racecourse'
Doncaster Exhibision 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
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
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
Admission charge unknown
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
Auctions
Saturday 18th May 2019
Bury
St. Edmunds - Lacy
Scott & Knight
Web. - www.lsk.co.uk
eMail - oleggett@lsk.co.uk
Tel. - 01284 748 600 (general enquires)
Tel. - 01284 748 623 (Oliver Leggett -
auction)
Toy and Collectors Models
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
Thursday 23rd May 2019 -
Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
14:00 - Finish
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
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!
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
N is for News
AAC Museum
The Army Aviation museum at Middle Wallop
has opened again after a major re-vamp, I've enjoyed several visits - back in
the day - wandering round the exhibits, so can only imagine it's an even better
reason for a day-out now?
Hamleys
You're probably aware already, but the same
day I was reporting the 150-somthingth store opening (last Thursday), the sale
(rumoured in the past) went through, with Chinese shoe-empire C. Banner selling
the whole concern to India's Reliance Group for around £70m quid.
They also opened their fifth store in
Hyderabad last week!
The Works Aren't Working
The
Works posted poor results and suffered a loss of
share value last week, I suspect it's just a glitch and certainly hope it's not
a sign of something more serious; the Blog gets a lot of mileage from them in
the course of a year!
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
L is for Links
Only the one this week, a book, it may have
appeared here already in the past, but I can't remember, so here it is . . .
again?
ᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥ ☼ ᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪᴥᴪ
H is for How They Come In
In addition to the pile of plunder I
dragged-home from the PW show last week, there have been a few shrapnel
purchases from local charity shops in the last seven days . . .
. . . I managed to get over to Farnborough earlier
this week and did the three charity shops in the old precinct, nothing in two
of them but several things in the third, among which was this Vivid board game; not worth a separate
post, and really only the vampire man-bat is of any use to figure collectors.
The sarcophagus would be better if he wasn't
wearing comedy 'shades', the pumpkin will reappear in Halloween
comparison-shots at some point and the Medusa's head will make a change from-/in
a display of- all those cereal premium kings, admirals, explorers and
footballer busts!
A china (and probably China) panda and an Ertl rail-trolley operator (large scale Thomas the Tank Engine?) were also
procured for pennies!
I ignore these in the shops (well these
days I'll take a shelfie) because they aren't worth the price, but in a tatty
box for a quid, they are worth the punt as archive items; packaging's gone to
the recycling, where it joined the Khufu game's box and main components!
A dodgy Panther, UPS truck (in mufti),
high-performance sports-staff car (HMS Queen Elizabeth's?!!) and a reasonable
Jeep Wrangler join a tacky helicopter and two road-signs; it's the bottom-end
of the die-cast market! All courtesy of Top
Toys; an importer based in Northampton we've seen before I think.
This afternoon (Thursday)'s loot included a
tenth Halo (of twelve, I may yet get
them all?)* a handful of chinosaurs, a Taiwanese Luke Skywalker (magazine part-work) and a pallet of milk-churns,
which were joined by a Phidal set of Toy Story figurines; they will get a
separate post at some point.
* Except the post I'm referring to is err . . . still in the queue . . . Doh! Forthcoming! The Works (for it is they) are replacing the Jada Halo with Happy Potter (HP II) and Fantastic Beast sets, also in twelve's, I think?
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