laurencedyer
Jedi Knight
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- Aug 11, 2014
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Last year I was fortunate enough to get access to the former Palitoy warehouses / factories and take a group of approximately 12 collector's on what I called a Pali-tour.
The tour started at Coalville where we were graced with a walk around of the site by former employees Bob Brechin and John Holmes who explained what happened where and how various departments evolved over time.
We then took a visit to Baker Street, the Mainline Train's warehouse and staff shop for a quick walkaround (trespass) of the site before going on to end the tour at the finished goods warehouse in Ashby.
The tour would have to take place on Saturday 14th October 2017 as it uses the AmCon (Action Man) show to access the Coalville site on a Saturday as it normally closed at weekends.
I would need to get in touch with my contact at the owners of the Ashby site to see if they would grant me access again this year to pull this all together but I am confident access would be granted.
I wanted to see if there was sufficient appetite on the Forum for me to look into the prospect of arranging one this year.
Two members of the community had previously stated after the last event that they would be interested if I ran another one so I would be needing another 10 interested parties.
The first 10 members expressing an interest would provisionally reserve a place until the tour is confirmed.
The only condition for access to Ashby is to wear Safety boots.
Laurence
The tour started at Coalville where we were graced with a walk around of the site by former employees Bob Brechin and John Holmes who explained what happened where and how various departments evolved over time.
We then took a visit to Baker Street, the Mainline Train's warehouse and staff shop for a quick walkaround (trespass) of the site before going on to end the tour at the finished goods warehouse in Ashby.
The tour would have to take place on Saturday 14th October 2017 as it uses the AmCon (Action Man) show to access the Coalville site on a Saturday as it normally closed at weekends.
I would need to get in touch with my contact at the owners of the Ashby site to see if they would grant me access again this year to pull this all together but I am confident access would be granted.
I wanted to see if there was sufficient appetite on the Forum for me to look into the prospect of arranging one this year.
Two members of the community had previously stated after the last event that they would be interested if I ran another one so I would be needing another 10 interested parties.
The first 10 members expressing an interest would provisionally reserve a place until the tour is confirmed.
The only condition for access to Ashby is to wear Safety boots.
Laurence