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I believe that Bekonscot is run by the Church Army. Seeking confirmation before I put in the article. Phil 16:08, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
Most of the article information was submitted by Grant James Gibson, a current employee of Bekonscot Ltd.
According to another article in Wikipedia, Tiny Town in Colorado was founded in 1921. In a linked article Timmy Dunn says that Bekonscot was founded sometimes around the mid 1920. So which is really the oldest model village?
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I find that a mighty peculiar assertion! Legoland Windsor is very obviously almost entirely taken from Legoland Billund, which has been around for years. It may be that orignal legoland was inspired by Bekonscot, but in the absence of any reference it's impossible to say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki benguin ( talk • contribs) 09:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Legoland UK had formerly viewed and approved the aforementioned text which is published in the book. Therefore it has been verified by Legoland UK, now part of the Merlin Entertainment Group. ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:37, 11 December 2008 (UTC).
Have removed section about the "Miners Lane" extension to the model railway, which was an edit made some time ago - have edited it to reflect the changing nature of the model railway!
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an ideal English village with a church, railway and high street, illuminated by electric lights- reading this, I wondered whether it was "idealised" (and indeed The Times has that word, and it appears later in the artile under "In popular culture"), but the Bucks Examiner uses "ideal". I think this is a case of WP:LIMITED where retaining "ideal" would be better than substituting a synonym.
The railway was 1,000 feet long and had stations including a London terminus called Maryloo (referencing real stations Marylebone and Waterloo)- the National Geographic source has "1,200 feet".
History
commonly known as the oldest surviving model village in the UK- is known the right word here? Isn't it something more like "referred to"?
[6][13][8][14]- optionally, you could use WP:CITEBUNDLE
In popular culture
had become part of English culture- presumably from "That vision has seeped into the wider culture, and not always in the ways that you might expect" in the source; but feels a bit stong to me.
The village frequently appears on lists of recommended family days out- is this based on three sources, or from content in those sources? "frequently" might be a bit strong.
The Sunday Telegraph reported a rumour that Toyland where her fictional character Noddy lives was inspired by Bekonscot- not sure "rumour" is quite right here. The source's phrase "is said to have been" isn't the easiest to make use of.
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a part of English culture- as per comment above.
commonly known as the oldest surviving model village in the UK- as per comment above.
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I believe that Bekonscot is run by the Church Army. Seeking confirmation before I put in the article. Phil 16:08, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
Most of the article information was submitted by Grant James Gibson, a current employee of Bekonscot Ltd.
According to another article in Wikipedia, Tiny Town in Colorado was founded in 1921. In a linked article Timmy Dunn says that Bekonscot was founded sometimes around the mid 1920. So which is really the oldest model village?
--
Peter Walt A. (
talk)
01:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I find that a mighty peculiar assertion! Legoland Windsor is very obviously almost entirely taken from Legoland Billund, which has been around for years. It may be that orignal legoland was inspired by Bekonscot, but in the absence of any reference it's impossible to say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki benguin ( talk • contribs) 09:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Legoland UK had formerly viewed and approved the aforementioned text which is published in the book. Therefore it has been verified by Legoland UK, now part of the Merlin Entertainment Group. ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:37, 11 December 2008 (UTC).
Have removed section about the "Miners Lane" extension to the model railway, which was an edit made some time ago - have edited it to reflect the changing nature of the model railway!
Timmydunn ( talk) 10:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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an ideal English village with a church, railway and high street, illuminated by electric lights- reading this, I wondered whether it was "idealised" (and indeed The Times has that word, and it appears later in the artile under "In popular culture"), but the Bucks Examiner uses "ideal". I think this is a case of WP:LIMITED where retaining "ideal" would be better than substituting a synonym.
The railway was 1,000 feet long and had stations including a London terminus called Maryloo (referencing real stations Marylebone and Waterloo)- the National Geographic source has "1,200 feet".
History
commonly known as the oldest surviving model village in the UK- is known the right word here? Isn't it something more like "referred to"?
[6][13][8][14]- optionally, you could use WP:CITEBUNDLE
In popular culture
had become part of English culture- presumably from "That vision has seeped into the wider culture, and not always in the ways that you might expect" in the source; but feels a bit stong to me.
The village frequently appears on lists of recommended family days out- is this based on three sources, or from content in those sources? "frequently" might be a bit strong.
The Sunday Telegraph reported a rumour that Toyland where her fictional character Noddy lives was inspired by Bekonscot- not sure "rumour" is quite right here. The source's phrase "is said to have been" isn't the easiest to make use of.
See also / External links / Further reading
Sources
Infobox and lead
a part of English culture- as per comment above.
commonly known as the oldest surviving model village in the UK- as per comment above.
General