Comment on Bekonscot Model Village
I'd forgotten all about the model village till i stumbled across it again on tinternet. Visited when I was about 8 with relatives. Now plan to take my son there soon as he enjoyed the website..can't wait to see it again in all its glory.
Comment on Bekonscot Model Village posted 2006-02-16 by James from Staffordshire
Comment on Bekonscot Model Village
Model villages are full of gentle humour, unshowy eccentricity, polite notices and visitors enjoying being able to stare uninhibited into (little) people's lives ? these things feel like signs of Englishness to me. There are 'miniature parks' in other countries, but they don't seem to have the same focus as the English ones do on creating a nostalgic model of a particular community or place. The first ever model village was built in Buckinghamshire in the 1920s, so even if the idea has been exported, they are an English invention.
Comment on Bekonscot Model Village posted 2007-02-23 by Ally Ireson from London