Model Villages

by Tim Dunn

This is the story of Britain's model villages: miniature worlds that have captivated garden guests and paying public since the early twentieth century. This history of these small-scale utopias covers their early growth as playthings of the wealthy, their blossoming into fairylands on seafronts during the post-war holiday boom, and of many model villages' gradual decline from toy-towns to ghost towns. But it is also the story of how diligent modelmakers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445669145
• ISBN13: 9781445669144
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"