Friday, 2 December 2016
Saturday, 24 September 2016
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
TRAVEL GUIDE
Directions to the PW Show
The Venue
The Harlequin
Suite, The Winning Post Inn, Chertsey
Road, Twickenham,
TW2 6LS Link to website:
By
Car
Same route as for
the old venue at Richmond. From Outside London take M25, M3, A316, go
over one roundabout and entrance to the winning Post is after 500 metres on
your left.
From Inner London,
after Richmond Circus follow A316 past QCH and continue straight on over 3
roundabouts. You will pass the Winning Post on your right. At the
next roundabout take the 4th exit and the entrance to the Winning Post will be
on your left after 500 metres.
FREE
PARKING. There
is extensive free parking at the site and in the residential roads behind the
Winning Post. The Harlequin Suite is to the right of the main building and
access is through fire doors at the rear and side of the hall.
By
Public Transport
From Central
London and the South of England by overground train (South West Trains) from
Waterloo or Clapham Junction to Whitton Station. There are 8 trains an
hour and the journey time is approx. 30 minutes.
From the North of
England by train to London arriving at Kings Cross, St. Pancras or Euston. Take
the London Underground Victoria line just 6 stops to Vauxhall and change
for South West Trains to Whitton Station as above.
Whitton Station is
just 3 minutes walk from the Winning Post - turn left out of the station past
Jubilee Avenue and Pauline Crescent; the next turning on your left is the
entrance to the Winning Post.
Should you wish to
take the London Underground to Richmond as in previous years you could get a
black cab or a H22 bus from the taxi rank and bus stop outside the station but
it is far easier to change platform and take a South West Train service to
Whitton Station as above (4 trains an hour, journey time 8 minutes).
Oyster cards are
accepted on all London Underground lines, buses and South West Trains to
Whitton Station.
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Monday, 1 February 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Soldiers in Silloth
I’m Cumbrian but some of my collection of
soldiers will be on display in London next week. Helping to promote IKEA! Their
PR people approached me about my “fascinating” collection to ask if I would
lend some figures to show off IKEA display cases at an exhibition in a gallery
in Dalston, North London. I suspect they actually spotted me in the “Dull
Men of Great Britain” book!
Anyway I’m bringing about a thousand
figures to put in their cabinets – some classic metal but also Herald, Eyes
Right, Elastolin, Starlux, Reamsa, Athena etc. and some oddities such as the
semi-flat plastics produced in the Soviet Union in the seventies. The plastics of the 1950/60s are my personal
favourites so Lone Star, Cherilea and co are represented.
They’re at The Proud Archivist, 2-10 Hertford Rd, London N1 5ET. January 21st-23rd,
8am to 10.30pm. Visit
www.theproudarchivist.co.uk/exhibitions/the-collection
Any PW readers in the London area are
welcome to come along so if you have time to publish this I would be grateful.
Warm wishes to all
Tim
Barker, www.soldiersinsilloth.co.uk
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