“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 ...
“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 are in: Beds Herts and Bucks > In Pictures > 360 Panoramas > Bucks > Bekonscot Model Village Bekonscot Model Village is the oldest model village in the world and is located at Beaconsfield in ...
Characters have been designed to match the 1930s theme of the model village New residents have moved in to what is believed to be the world's oldest model village. Students at the National Film and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Just below the algae-specked surface of the moat, monstrous fish glide past Epwood Castle. These horrible, bloated ...
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 ...