Wow that's amazing. So who was she married to, Kendal, Harvey?
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Colin Harvey. All my friends at school were Liverpool fans but wouldnāt have sat well with the morning child minding arrangement š.
Years later after he had left first team management Colin was
Working with the youth team and remember him telling my dad one day about a wonder kid they had called Wayne Rooney !!
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Donāt suppose anyone has photographs of the arcade at Granada Studios Tour in Manchester ?
Wow, how cool is that!
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Seems to impress Evertonian's I meet to this day
.They are still good family friends to this day.I will have a look through my memorabilia when back in the north west again.
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Natasha Hensridge in the house? š„°
Mid 1980s we began making these but Pelham got bought out by Pedigree toys in 1986 and our neighbour Winfall was siting about 150 and wanted another 250+ sets of 4 various styles wizards, Robin Hood, circus, pirates etc., Dransfield Novelty exported 72 machines to Italy also. Due to puppet supply drying up late 80s to early 90s a cottage industry was born at our new present home.. kids and wife painted and made clothes while I manufactured the puppets from raw materials. Waxing joint strings knee/ankle/arm/hand as butchers string was also discontinued in the 80s too.
By 1990s the older girls were 11&10 and younger daughter was 6 so none escaped homework !
Truprint must have loved developing film for us and guessing what we did ā¦ they got loadsā¦ a few more follow ā¦ one legged crutch holding capt Bluebeard , Redbeard and pirate crews and clowns policemen ringmasters and horses etc
Limited edition The Flintstones and a special one off set of Victorians for the new Victoria shopping precinct walkway at Llandudno (one of our council sites).
Winfall made flashy flyers and 1991 we immortalised my relatives whose photos we have on our dining room wall Virgil, Ray Scott , aunty Penny and her Butler Parker, probably last of the New Pelham from Toys R Us
Puppets hung everywhere till we slotted old pool cues to transport them to Rhyl for assembly in Glendale egg cabs supplied blank just with windows and window frames, all the innards needed making and fitting ā¦. Alongside the hundreds of jamma cabs being made for Winfall for his nationwide shop siting round selling scam operation ( Buy 3 latest video or similar sited machines in your town - from āonly Ā£15,000ā)
Thunderbirds was assembled in that wheeled market cart cab in 1991 spent years at Rhyl sun centre and various arcade locations. Just started refurb last year as the sound packed up (thunderbirds theme ok again now) couple of string failures and a caved Perspex , Still needs top repainting. Sea air attacks metal on all types of arcade stuff!
Pictures include me on a lathe making heads wife painting them kids painting shoes and hands etc stringing them on loops at hang length, etc the thunderbirds legs all rise in sync with each other even an original Tracy island in there with flying toy craft models T1 T2 .. sadly it will probably never get sited again but visitors love it when itās not buried in too much crap!
Production on Happy Time Puppet theatre (( 540 sets - still have no333 here ant home Mickey Mouse goofy Pinocchio Pelham puppets in that one..)) and 20ā Jamma Pedastal cabs all ceased towards mid 90s as demand for both fell off. Paper Kodak Photos seemed to dry up too in that era as camera phones and digital cameras took over.
Our prototype sat in Knightlys funfair arcade Towyn for many years in a original wooden Sam Moffat chicken egg cab but the first 10 puppets we made were a bit over ambitious with opening mouths as in that first cab pictured and our 3 girls also still have one each not strung for action just keepsakes with opening mouths but too hard to reproduce when we got going.
By 1990s the older girls were 11&10 and younger daughter was 6 so none escaped homework !
Truprint must have loved developing film for us and guessing what we did ā¦ they got loadsā¦ a few more follow ā¦ one legged crutch holding capt Bluebeard , Redbeard and pirate crews and clowns policemen ringmasters and horses etc
Limited edition The Flintstones and a special one off set of Victorians for the new Victoria shopping precinct walkway at Llandudno (one of our council sites).
Winfall made flashy flyers and 1991 we immortalised my relatives whose photos we have on our dining room wall Virgil, Ray Scott , aunty Penny and her Butler Parker, probably last of the New Pelham from Toys R Us
Puppets hung everywhere till we slotted old pool cues to transport them to Rhyl for assembly in Glendale egg cabs supplied blank just with windows and window frames, all the innards needed making and fitting ā¦. Alongside the hundreds of jamma cabs being made for Winfall for his nationwide shop siting round selling scam operation ( Buy 3 latest video or similar sited machines in your town - from āonly Ā£15,000ā)
Thunderbirds was assembled in that wheeled market cart cab in 1991 spent years at Rhyl sun centre and various arcade locations. Just started refurb last year as the sound packed up (thunderbirds theme ok again now) couple of string failures and a caved Perspex , Still needs top repainting. Sea air attacks metal on all types of arcade stuff!
Pictures include me on a lathe making heads wife painting them kids painting shoes and hands etc stringing them on loops at hang length, etc the thunderbirds legs all rise in sync with each other even an original Tracy island in there with flying toy craft models T1 T2 .. sadly it will probably never get sited again but visitors love it when itās not buried in too much crap!
Production on Happy Time Puppet theatre (( 540 sets - still have no333 here ant home Mickey Mouse goofy Pinocchio Pelham puppets in that one..)) and 20ā Jamma Pedastal cabs all ceased towards mid 90s as demand for both fell off. Paper Kodak Photos seemed to dry up too in that era as camera phones and digital cameras took over.
Our prototype sat in Knightlys funfair arcade Towyn for many years in a original wooden Sam Moffat chicken egg cab but the first 10 puppets we made were a bit over ambitious with opening mouths as in that first cab pictured and our 3 girls also still have one each not strung for action just keepsakes with opening mouths but too hard to reproduce when we got going.
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Fantastic stuff @69er
What a great set of family memories , thanks for sharing.
Best for the new year
Ant
Looking through some old Hi-Fi Choice magazines here https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Hi-Fi-Choice/
I found the old JVC Tape Deck at had at one point, pretty cool one with the Meters and Digital counter but seem to remember tape door missing on it, no idea where I got it from
I found the old JVC Tape Deck at had at one point, pretty cool one with the Meters and Digital counter but seem to remember tape door missing on it, no idea where I got it from