“If I should die, think only this of me:/ That there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England.” When Rupert Brooke wrote these lines in 1914 at the age of 26, he could not have known ...
On 28 October 2009, police detectives were called to a small Buckinghamshire village, and the scene of a curious murder. The victim was found on the floor, trussed up like Gulliver, stabbed fatally in ...
“Would you like to come with me and visit a village so small that you will tower above the houses?” asked Enid Blyton in her 1951 book about Bekonscot, The Enchanted Village. Over 13 million did, and ...
You can take the A40 road from London and drive along what’s often called one of England’s “really scenic roads” and, in a leisurely drive, it’ll take you just over an hour to traverse the 27 miles to ...
Escape the 21st century for this wee village trapped in the 1930s, while the kids ooh and aah over tiny farms, cottages, windmills and a working model railway The world’s oldest model village, loosely ...
A fascinating collection of photographs have come to light which chart the rise and fall of model villages, one of Britain's lost eccentric tourist attractions. In the early 1970s intricate model ...
When Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced certain businesses in England could reopen, there was some surprise that model villages appeared on a list alongside places like pubs, restaurants and ...
Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is one of the oldest and original model villages, opening for the first time in 1929. This huge model railway, 1.5 acres of well kept gardens and finely detailed ...
“Would you like to come with me and visit a village so small that you will tower above the houses?” asked Enid Blyton in her 1951 book about Bekonscot, The Enchanted Village. Over 13 million did, and ...
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