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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Friday, December 6, 2019

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events - 7th-13th December 2019

Never mind . . .


. . . at least we have toy fairs! Actually the diary's a bit thin this week on most other events, but there's conversely a decent bunch of actual toy fairs, so something for everyone, if they go look, and a three day Vectis sale!

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 7th December 2019

Brentwood - J&J Fairs (John & Julie Webb)
International hall, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN
Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)
10:00 - Approx. 14:30hrs
Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2

Chalk Farm, London - Guideline Publications - London Toy Soldier Show
Haverstock School, 24 Haverstock Hill, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 2BQ
Tel. - 01908 274 433
10:30 - 16:00hrs
Admission £6, early bird (from 09:30hrs) £10, late hares £4 - after 14:00hrs
Parking £5 (reasonable for London!)

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Sunday 8th December 2019

Ashington - David Parsons - Toy & Train Collectors Fair
Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane, Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG
Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)
Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
 Adults £1.50, concessions £1
[Is he? Two shows on one day? I think one of the dates published elsewhere (Henfield - below) is a big fat error?]

Brecon - Chris Dyer Fairs
Market hall, Town Centre, Brecon, Powys, Wales, LD3 7LG
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2

Chartham -  SRP Toy Fairs
Station Road, Chartham, Kent, ME13 7RA
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown

Cirencester - Retro Ronnie
Bingham Hall, King Street, Cirencester, Glousecstershire, GL7 1JT
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
10:00-hrs 'till finish
Admission unknown, early bird (from 08:00hrs)
Refreshments


Exeter - Events Frontier - Devcon '19
Exeter Corn Exchange, Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS, UK
Mob. - 07508 548 938
Hours unknown
Admission fee unknown
Sci-fi, film and comic convention
CANCELLED


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

Henfield - David Parsons - Toy & Train Collectors Fair
Advertised by some sources; this show was held on the 23rd November.

Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend)
Festival Hall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 7DJ
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission fee unknown, aaccompanied under-16's free
Free parking, refreshments

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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Monday 9th December 2019

Exeter - Events Frontier - Devcon '19
[Given this date in some sources, it's happening tomorrow - Saturday 7th December]

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Tuesday 10th December 2019

Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)
Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ
Tel. - 01226 744 425
19:00 - 21:00hrs
Admission £1.50p, children 50p

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Wednesday 11th December 2019

Burton-upon-Trent - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening Fair
The Town Hall, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2EB
Mob. - 07951 072 790
18:00 - 20:30hrs
Admission unknown, accompanied under-16's free

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Thursday 12 December 2019

Theydon Bois - Joe Lock Fairs (evening fair)
Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex, CM16 7ER
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07866 641 215
19:00-21:00hrs
Admission £1

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Auctions

Wednesday 11th-Friday 13th December 2019

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions (3-day sale)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ
Tel. - 01642 750 616

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Friday 13th December 2019

Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
Viewing - Thursday 12th 09:00- 16:45, from 08:30 on sale day
14:00 - Finish
Engineered Live Steam Models & Railwayana Auction (from 10:00hrs)
Specialist Collectable Toys & Model Railway Auction (from 11:00hrs)

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Other Events

Selected dates from now to Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve)

Aylsham - Bure Valley Railway - Steam Trains to Santa
Aylsham Station, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk

Nothing much else around of the toy-related verity, lots of Christmas Markets setting up now, Leeds has a good one I believe, Guildford another one, and other towns have day-events, evening events and the like; Ironbride are doing a themed Victorian weekend, you can often find erzgebirge type stuff at the better (more European/Germanic tradition-following-) ones, so worth searching out if you feel a sudden need for wooden novelties!

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Overseas Events

Saturday 7th December 2019

Pinellas Park (USA) - Regal Railways - Christmas Show (trains)
Lopez Inc. Hall, 7177 58th Street North, Pinellas Park, FL 33781, Florida, USA (venue)
501 East Bay Drive, Apt. 1503, Largo, FL 33770, Florida, USA (promoter)
Tel. - ++17 272 441 341
09:00-14:00hrs
Admission, $5.00 children under 12 free, 'early-bird' $7.00 (reserve between 08:00-09:00hrs)
Vendors and exhibition model train layout
Lunch Available

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Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th December 2019

Timonium (USA) - Greenberg's - Great Train & Toy Show
Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093, Maryland, USA (venue)
Greenberg Shows, 280 Carlton Drive, Carol Stream, IL 60188, USA (organiser)
Tel. -  ++6302 794 087
Fax. - ++2405 974 482
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission is $10 Saturday (for both days) or $9 Sunday (on-site ticket sales cash only), children 11 and under free
Running alongside the Baltimore Stamp & Coin show

Thought for the day - they could do aluminium . . . if they wanted to?!!

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If you are an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model, collectable, military, historical 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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Links




On both sides of the pond! And nice to see last year's news-link story has been scaled-down rather than cancelled.

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Received With Thanks

Parcels
Two - no less! Through the letter-box yesterday (Thursday), one from Mr. Evans in North London and one from Mr. Berke in North America! The London one was - I think - the rest of the last lot (more Star Wars Command and two more of those nice, shiny Britains copies, except one is Lone Star this time!), the NYNY one will be H is for...'ed in the next week or two.

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Pictures and Prose
An interesting shot came from Theo, it was going to be a future Q is for Question Time after both Kent Sprecher and myself failed to ID it, but I've sussed it out now and it will join a post (hopefully next Tuesday) made mostly of Angelo's latest shots, so a bit of synergy going on there!

And I should be adding a shot to the early Airfix page sometime next week after Danny O'Neil sent me more on the Feathalite figures from Oz. I've also had more on firefighters from Theo, along with bath toys and other bits from Brian B in NYC.


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Publication
As I was leaving the house this morning, I saw Plastic warrior 177 (an auspicious calibre for a magazine!) on the mat, so didn't have time to read it, however, due to the train strike, I did have time to quickly peruse it and can report it looks to be a pretty Pharaonic issue!


Thanks to all for everything, it all adds an extra dimension to the Blog.

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Other SSW Stuff

This Week I are bin mostly . . . Herdin' Deer

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My advent calendar has already turned-up a soldier, a tree and a bear! Twenty still to come - it's a naughty one with an extra 25th chocolate, on the 25th!

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Thumbs Up!

Five weeks tomorrow and it's almost back to its old self, but appearances are deceptive and it's still quite hert'y, it has a sort of painful pins-&-needles which I'm told by people who have been equally stupid suffered similar injuries that it might take a month or two for that to wear-off. I imagine it's all the internal cut-ends of little microscopic stuff worming around to find each-other and join back up? It's still quite numb as well.


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