Perhaps it's like Brigadoon and we haven't yet been patient enough. Photo of the demonstration of the Merrie England model, scanned by Steve Hames and taken from the book, 'Cannock Chase (Images of England)' by Sherry Belcher and Mary Mills.
Further to my recent post about the early seventies phenomena that was the failed Merrie England project, I received a very welcome contribution from reader Steve Hames, of SJH Computing, who kindly scanned this remarkable image from the book ‘Cannock Chase (images of England)’ by Sherry Belcher and Mary Mills. I must confess that this is a title I wasn’t previously aware of, and I just ordered myself a copy.
Is it me, or does that model, and the description, sound like an absolutely dreadful idea? Is it just my modern expectations, or was the concept duff, even then?
Thanks are due to Steve for his fascinating addition to a very left-field bit of local Staffordshire folklore. Together, bit by bit, we’re assembling a historical record. Keep ’em coming, chaps…