I will also return to my rants here, but
it's hard to know what to rant about at the moment, do I rant about what's
happening in Australia, vis-à-vis its implications for the rest of us? Do I
rant about Trump and his idiocy, or the Middle East and Iran (more Trump idiocy
if we're honest?), or do I rant closer to home and the Tory 'Landslide' with
43.6% of the vote and 2-million less than voted for Brwreakshit?
We have a new phenomena in the UK (seventh
richest country on Earth); 'in-work poverty', yet they - the 'working poor' of
the North East, the West Country, the fishing (ex-fishing) villages of East
York's, Norfolk and Kent - voted for the people whose policies over 41 years
have got us to this point, the people (Mogg, Weatherspoon, IDS and the rest)
who pushed Brwreakshit to avoid the coming tax-regulations of Brussels . . .
you can't make it up!
Or do I rant about Harry Hewitt and his
wife, making their own way in the world? Well, I wouldn't rant about that, I'd
rant about how the intrinsically, institutionally, hardly-disguised racists of
the tabloid filth have treated them - since about five-seconds after 'the
wedding of the century'!
So for now let's just look forwards to more
old toys to buy . . . it's actaully still quite quiet, but there's enough about
this weekend at least.
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 18th January 2020
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
Ludlow - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs -
Ludlow Toy & Train Collector's Fair
Ludlow Racecourse, Bromfield, Ludlow,
Shropshire, SY8 2BT
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2.00
Free parking
Nottingham - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm
Townsend) - Nottingham Toy Fair
Bluecoat Academy, Nottingham, NG8 5GY
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown, accompanied under-16's
free
Light refreshments
Free Parking
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Sunday 19th January 2020
Coventry - Barry Potter / BP Fairs
The Connexion,
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, CV8 3FL
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Fax. - 01604
771 070
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission
£3, seniors £2.50p, children £1, early bird (from 08:00hrs) £6
Free parking
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 £2.00
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
Admission charge unknown
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Auctions
Wednesday 22nd January 2020
Warwick - Warwick & Warwick
Charlton House, Scar Bank, Millers Road, Warwick,
Warwickshire, CV34 5DB
(Auctions held in Court House)
Web. - www.warwickandwarwick.com
Tel. - 01926 499 031
Facsimile - 01926 491 906
Catalogue on-line, printed version
available on request
Trains, die cast, model soldiers and other
toys
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Thursday 23rd January 2020
Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
Viewing - Wednesday 22nd 10:00 - 16:45,
from 08:30 on sale day
14:00 - Finish
General toy and collectable sale
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Sales commence at 10:30hrs
General toy
sale
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Friday 24th January 2020
Elstree - Excalibur
Auctions (day 1 of a 2-day auction, day 2: Saturday
26th January)
The Village
Hotel, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3SB (venue)
Chiltern
Business Centre, Woodside Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6AA (office)
Web. - www.excaliburauctions.com
eMail - enquiries@excaliburauctions.com
Tel. - 02036
330 913
Free Tea or
Coffee
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Other Events
Saturday 18th January 2020
Leicester - National Space Centre -
Space Lates
National Space Centre, Exploration Drive,
Leicester, Leicestershire
Web. - www.spacecentre.co.uk
Interactive stuff
Swansea - National Waterfront Museum
- Amazing Astronomy Afternoon
National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth
Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Wales (it's not a sea-going mammal Mr.
President)
Web. - www.museum.wales
Interactive stuff
West
Stow - Anglo-Saxon
Village - 420-2020
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, West Stow, Suffolk
Web. - www.weststow.org
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Tuesday 21st-Thursday 23rd January 2020
London (West-Central) - British Toy & Hobby Association - The
Toy Fair 2020
Olympia Exhibition Hall, Kensington
Olympia, Kensington, London, W14 8UX
Web. - www.toyfair.co.uk
Tel. - 08458 685 820
Tue/Wed. - 09:00-18:00hrs
Thursday - 09:00-17:30hrs
Admission by pre-booking/invitation only,
no children without authorisation or equity/ performers-card
Annual trade-fair; I'm hoping to be there
on the Wednesday.
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Overseas Events
Saturday January 18th 2020
Brooksville (USA) - Regal Railways
Hernando Fairgrounds, 6436 Broad Street, Brooksville,
FL 34601, 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,
antiques and crafts
Lunch Available
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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 a link; if the event or your organisation has a
web-page.
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
The British Government has got a figural
trope going on their current pensions campaign, which will be familiar to UK
readers, but for those of you further-afield;
Couple of Ger'Nomes! There is some gnome
stuff in the queue, but I need to speak to the owner on a detail or two.
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Other News
Stadswatch
The bands must march! The bells must be
rung! Call out the clowns, the jugglers . . . err and an elephant! The
ticker-tape must flow in Allentown's Main Street; after 18-odd years of
internet presence and more of computing, TJF has learned to crop images!
But he had to use some extra-special
re-sizing software, which has apparently rendered them un-embiggen'able! So
while his Blog shitestuffdotcom is measurably less useful, it now looks
prettier! More Blue Box palm-trees
should sort it all out, or some other cockamamie piece of bullshit cooked-up
between him and Hildabreath or was it Lickshite? I wasn't paying attention!
Still - it was nice of them to visually confirm what
I'd said 48-hours earlier! The hobby wins again!
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H is for How They Come In
Very little this week in the second-hand
department, in fact nothing really, but I found something, lying, abandoned in
the car-park at the railway station!
A flocked kitten who's commuter footfall-related
mange led me to conduct a complete skinning, which - surprisingly - it looks
all the better for! He's PVC so not a Sylvania',
probably a modern In-My-Pocket type
or a giveaway on the cover of a kids comic/periodical?
In order to have something else here I
threw this in with a dino'lot (heading for a separate post) when the shopkeeper
offered a discount; a lump of die-cast mazak, made in China (where else!),
Great British, Little Englander, semi-privatised, half the collections for
ten-times the postage, pillar-box! No branding.
Compare with the Dinky pillar-box appearing here next Monday at 11am local time!
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