Harold Elliott
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Harold Elliott was an ex-army man and, keen railway enthusiast.
After the war he assembled a large working 0 gauge model railway layout based mostly on Bassett Lowke products and he toured the railway round the country including appearances in Scarborough, Rhyll and finished on the seafront at Brighton, opposite West Street.
He finished with the railway at the time when his health declined in the early 1970s and was taken over by a Mr Paul Baker who ran it for a short period but decided it wasn’t cost effective and sold it on.
Bassett Lowke would to an extent sponsor Harold on the grounds that the Layout was a pretty good advertisement for the firm (providing locos etc. at cost price.)
