Travel to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire and travel back in time...
To a kinder gentler time, to the time of my childhood 50 years ago when dinosaurs like Iguanadon were still tail draggers!
Seeing as some of the concrete exhibits seem to have been directly inspired by those at the Crystal Palace, I should be thankful the spike is on the thumb and not the nose!
They also had a full size concrete Corythosaurus that looked like it had been scaled up from the Pyro/Life Like plastic model kit I had in the mid sixties!
Knebworth's helpful information panels are just as up to date as their dinosaur reconstructions. How did they die? As long as leaves obscure the sign, I guess we'll never know. But food poisoning sounds pretty legit.
And of course, being a dinosaur fan from the moment she could read (and in later life writing and illustrating two books on Australian Dinosaurs) my wife couldn't resist correcting the spelling for "Cretaceous"!
Looking forward to seeing Brighton again.
As I've mentioned on previous Moonbase blogs, I've found some gems there compared to stupid Australian prices! Will I visit the Brighton Toy Museum again? Hmmm, it really is the best anywhere in the world!
Cheers,
Looey
That looks like a great day out. Good luck on your vintage toy hunt.
ReplyDeletefood poisoning? Thats the daftest explanation Ive ever heard! Are these exhibits the ones that have been there since the sixties, or is that the Crystal Palace ones? I recall seeing some as a kid in a magazine or book, but I think they were all uniformly green colour. Bill
ReplyDeleteIt's a well known fact that dinosaurs just ate each other until only one was left. Nessie!
ReplyDeleteI had a couple of the Pyro dinosaur kits but much preferred Aurora's Prehistoric Scenes.
ReplyDeleteThey were less anatomically correct, maybe, but had way more character.
Dinosaurs are still very popular with kids today.
ReplyDeleteAh, dinosaurs. Every boy’s first crush. I built every single one of the Pyro dinosaur models, some of them several times. Loved those dearly. Displayed them with and without their boxes. Even ordered a few of the harder-to-find kits directly from Pyro via mail order, and they were glad to oblige. A great company, which I miss to this day. SFZ
ReplyDeleteWow! A proper Pyro fan SFZ! It must have been so great to send of for those kits as a kid!
DeleteI used to read Poetry a lot. Peter Redgrove wrote a great poem called In The Hall of the Saurians.
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