Bollocks to Alton Towers
Uncommonly British Days Out
Alex Morris author Jason Hazeley author Joel Morris author Robin Halstead author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Mar '06
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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!
ISBN: 9780141021201
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm
Weight: 344g
448 pages