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- 11:57, 15 March 2025 Poodle marionette (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [929 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=54|Date1=1962|Date2=1986}} A brown-and-white '''Poodle marionette''' made by Pelham Puppets. The Poodle marionette line was created in 1948 and stayed in production right up until 1990. There were five variations created, with White, Black, Brown, Pink and Blue fur. Early models were produced with real rabbit fur but the later models used fake fur. ==Description== Poodle standard string Pelham puppet. Turned wood head with ball nose and snout, pa...")
- 17:25, 14 March 2025 Mexican Gunfighter (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [279 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation)
- 17:10, 14 March 2025 Cinderella marionette (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [281 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=54}} A '''Cinderella marionette''' with moulded hollow head, made by Pelham Puppets. ==Description== Long blonde hair and blue eyes. Pink ballgown, with puff sleeves, yellow ribbon around the waist, and blue and white floral underskirt. {{Pelham}} {{FairyTale}}")
- 16:12, 13 March 2025 MacBoozle marionette (Pelham Puppets SM) (hist | edit) [1,432 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=53|Date1=1950s}} A marionette of Pelham Puppets' popular (but probably no longer politically correct) '''MacBoozle''' character. MacBoozle is a caricature of a Scottish character, white-haired with a black frock-coat and kilt, holding a green bottle. ==Description== 'MacBoozle' 'Stringed Mouth' SM Pelham puppet, with original box. Pink skin tone wooden ball head with red wooden ball nose (paint worn) large blue hand painted eyes, short white sheep...")
- 15:57, 13 March 2025 Teacher marionette (Pelham Puppets SM) (hist | edit) [920 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation)
- 14:54, 13 March 2025 Pirate marionette (Pelham Puppets SS) (hist | edit) [938 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=55}} '''A Marionette of a Pirate''' made by Pelham Puppets This puppet was an SM type, defined by the movable mouth which is controlled by an extra string on the control bar. Various different designs of pirate were produced from 1981 onward. ==Description== Pirate standard string Pelham puppet. Round wooden head with painted eye patch, green eye and mouth half open. Metal button nose. Black rabbit-fur hair covered...")
- 14:39, 13 March 2025 Small Caterpillar marionette (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [471 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation)
- 14:36, 13 March 2025 Wolf marionette (Pelham Puppets Infant) (hist | edit) [562 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=53|Date1=1962|Date2=1986}} "Wolf" marionette, made by Pelham Puppets. ==Description== Wolf standard string Pelham puppet. Wooden dome shaped head with moving jaw, red felt tongue and metal white peg teeth. White and black arched eyes. Cylindrical body and tail and head covered in brown sheepskin. Wooden sectional legs strung on cord with domed wooden brown feet. T-shaped wooden control. Box has blue Pelham label lid, 'Standage' in pen. Model name...")
- 14:29, 13 March 2025 Gretel marionette (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [151 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=53|}} "Gretel" marionette from the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy story, made by Pelham Puppets. {{Pelham}} {{Person}} {{FairyTale}}")
- 14:18, 13 March 2025 Hansel marionette (Pelham Puppets) (hist | edit) [151 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=53|}} "Hansel" marionette from the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy story, made by Pelham Puppets. An SL 63 model, designed as part of a set with the '''Baby Dragon Marionette''', the pair were originally released in 1963 and were in continued production until the closing of the factory in 1992. {{links}} * [http://www.ppo.co.uk/bimbo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192:mother-dragon-sl-63&catid=23:sl-63-rang...")
- 10:13, 5 March 2025 Category:Lego Architecture (hist | edit) [6,464 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ever since they started making the brick sets, the Lego company has always always been strongly interested in architecture, which is not surprising as * Lego is a brick-centric system, * Lego is not cheap, and parents who buy it for their children often feel that they are making an investment in their child's development and future. * The profession of architect is highly respected and many parents would love the idea of their child growing up to become one, and * A nu...") originally created as "Lego Architecture"
- 13:15, 21 February 2025 Category:Lego Maxifigures (hist | edit) [4,498 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation) originally created as "Homemaker figures"
- 11:19, 21 February 2025 Kitchen Set, built (Lego 261) (hist | edit) [1,246 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=25|Date1=1974}} A built '''Lego Homemaker Kitchen Set'''. ==Features== Although the table and stools are fairly crude, the kitchen equipment is really rather nice. Star items are the cooker with opening door and sliding internal tray, the sink with chromed tap, the second set of cooker controls that can be used for an eyelevel grill, and the really clever air intake brick that sits under a pair of stacked white cupboards to magically turn them...")
- 11:14, 21 February 2025 Kitchen Set (Lego 263) (hist | edit) [841 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation) originally created as "Kitchen Set (Lego 261)"
- 10:38, 21 February 2025 Secretarys Desk (Lego 295) (hist | edit) [341 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Exhibit|Loc=25|Date1=1974}} A small set of Lego Homemaker furniture and accessories, consisting of a corner desk-set with under-desk two-drawer filing cabinet, a tall stand-alone bookshelf, a swivel-chair with arms, and a black stickered typewriter an black telephone with dial sticker. {{Homemaker}}") originally created as "Homemaker Secretary's Desk (Lego 295)"
- 17:31, 20 February 2025 Category:Duplo (hist | edit) [3,758 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==1971 promotional text:== {{Quotation|<h4>For very small children - "Duplo"</h4> So that very small children can play with Lego, we've made "Duplo" - big Lego bricks that they'll find easy to handle and take apart - even if they're only 2 years old. You can, of course, use Duplo with ordinary Lego bricks. They fit together perfectly. You can put four ordinary 8 stud bricks on either side of a Duplo brick. Children still enjoy Duplo bricks when they get older and have...") originally created as "Duplo"
- 18:24, 19 February 2025 Category:Lego Homemaker (hist | edit) [3,299 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Lego Homemaker range (essentially a range of sets of Lego dollhouse rooms and dollhouse furniture was launched circa 1971, initially with a set '''260 Doll's Living Room''' and a set '''261 Kitchen'''. Some sets came with a studded base suitable for a single room, others consisted of just loose furniture, or furniture with human figures. Some of the earlier and more popular sets underwent multiple revisions. Overall, including different revisions, Lego seems to have...") originally created as "Lego Dollhouse (Homemaker)"
- 11:45, 12 February 2025 Rigi Duo Cable Railway (hist | edit) [1,751 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (creation)
- 12:54, 8 February 2025 Category:Lego-compatible (hist | edit) [39 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Third-party '''Lego-compatible''' toys.") originally created as "Lego-compatible"
- 12:53, 8 February 2025 Lego-compatible railway truck, Bausteinwagen (Marklin 44734) (hist | edit) [6,371 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (new page, work in progress)
- 15:22, 7 February 2025 Marklin Plus (hist | edit) [1,910 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Toymaker|Date1=1970s}} '''Marklin Plus''' is Marklin's plastic construction set system. With the original German patent documents submitted in February 1973, the system looked rather similar to the Phillips construction toy system, based on grey square-cross-section plastic beams with grooves along their length along each side, that connecting to plates and blocks whose pegs engaged with the groove. A number of further components with matching pegs were patented thro...")
- 17:00, 5 February 2025 Category:LGB - Lehmann Gross Bahn (display) (hist | edit) [672 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Display|Arch=2|DisplayArea=37}} '''A collection of LGB (Lehmann Gross Bahn locomotives, trams and rolling stock.''' This is a temporary display, while we wait for the two end cabinets to be rebuilt. {{LGB}} {{New|2024|02}}") originally created as "LGB - Lehmann Gross Bahn (display)"
- 11:37, 18 January 2025 Category:Hiram Maxim (hist | edit) [2,494 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sir Hiram Maxim''' (1840-1916) was a prolific US-born inventor who battled against Edison for the right to claim himself inventor of the lightbulb, and who, after he'd moved to England in his forties, is chiefly remembered for having invented the Maxim machine gun. Where most aircraft pioneers concentrated on trying to get airborne, Maxim's work was distinguished by a determination to keep the apparatus on the ground so that data could be collected efficiently, unde...") originally created as "Hiram Maxim"
- 18:12, 15 January 2025 Roadster Cabriolet model (Meccano 18202) (hist | edit) [8,427 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (+description)
- 17:27, 14 January 2025 Clarkes Art Shop (hist | edit) [1,080 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Clarkes - The Art Shop '''Clarkes of Sussex''' announced on 11th January 2025 that the last day of business for their Bond Street shop in Brighton would be the 8th February, but that they would be keeping the Lewes branch open. Clarkes opened in November 2000, and had become a local community landmark. They also stocked some modelling supplies. With Clarkes gone, alternative Brighton art/modelling paint and art-craft shops are '''Cass Art''' near the Town Hall (21...")
- 18:00, 10 January 2025 The Adventures of Paddington (display) (hist | edit) [243 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Display|Arch=2|DisplayArea=15}} A collection of Paddington BaearPaddington bears, toys, books, and memorabilia. This is a temporary display, while we wait for the two end cabinets to be rebuilt. {{PaddingtonBear}} {{New|2024-01}}") originally created as "The Adventures of Paddington"
- 16:46, 27 December 2024 Category:Snow Dalek (hist | edit) [2,554 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If it's snowy outside, then rather than make a ''snowman'', why not make a '''Snow Dalek'''? ==Starting== Once you have enough snow, the most tricky part of a Snow Dalek is marking out the base. If you want to be really technically correct, it's a fourteen-sided shape, seven panels to a side. The rear four panels make a slight curve, then there are two shape corners and a further three panels per side, making two slight curves, and then the last four panels, two per...") originally created as "Snow Dalek"
- 13:23, 21 December 2024 Category:Paddington Bear (hist | edit) [10,752 bytes] BTMM Eric (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Origin== The Paddington Bear character was created by Michael Bond for the children's book "A Bear Called Paddington" which appeared in 1958. In the books, the bear arrives at Paddington Railway Station, London after journeying from "Deepest, Darkest Peru". He is discovered with a sign around his neck that says "Please look after this Bear", and his adoptive family name him after the station. {{Teddybears}}") originally created as "Paddington Bear"
