Ingo

Rating: 3/5 (213 Reviews)
Isbn:9780141021201
Author:Jason Hazeley
Pages:0
Publisher:Penguin

The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Hardings World of Mechanical Music and Mad Jacks Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, dont worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that theres 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 Jesuss 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!