Author

Publication

2008-01-09 - Penguin

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCDA650

Description

The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, don't worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique and, dammit, British.In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels under Liverpool and a terraced house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus's return. And along the way they met the people behind them all: enthusiasts, eccentrics and, you know, those who just sort of fell into looking after a vast collection of gnomes...Makes you proud!

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Other Editions

  • Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days OutPenguin2008-01-09

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