Awesome Giants Of Steam - Giants Of Steam / Coronation Scot (DVD)

Giant

Advantages: Visually stunning
Disadvantages: Might be put off due to comparisons with a classic book

The year is 1957 a lone satellite, Sputnik, drifts in orbit around Earth, its monotone pips the only sound to violate the silent void. Far off past the moon an object appears, at first a dot, then rapidly growing in size. It throw plumes of steam into the velvet black as it hurtles towards earth right into the eye of a storm, in more ways than one. Off the coast of Maine… A tiny boat is tossed around on a mountainous sea like a matchbox…. “This is the Trawler Annabel, last known location 44 degrees North 68 degrees…..” In the distance a flash of light stands out against the dark and sullen storm clouds as an object streaks into the boiling sea. “I don’t know somewhere off the coast of Rockwell, wait I can see the light house….” Marv Loach, looks up at one light through ...

DiazX 05.03.2002 · Read full review
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Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam DVD

Advantages: Wonderful
Disadvantages: None

Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam DVD is another exceptionally good TV programme released on DVD that carefully reflects and capture's Fred Dibnah's love of steam and his respect for the engineers who made steam not only a possibility but a living and breathing reality before, during and beyond the Victorian era. As anyone who knows of Fred Dibnah will be able to testify, Fred Dibnah has had a special fascination for all things steam since his childhood growing up in the Northern industrial town of Bolton, Lancashire. In Bolton if cotton was King, the steam must assuredly have been his Queen or consort. Fred's respect was made manifest by the fact that he carefully and expertly restored steam engines not only for himself (his Aveling and Porter traction engine for one) but also for friends and later for commercial clients. Although ...

Martinscholes 23.07.2006 · Read full review
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The Giant's Den

Advantages: huge play area
Disadvantages: Expensive

Giants den Huge warehouse on the easily found Team Valley trading Estate, this has been opened a few years now, and is usually busy?one of those places to go to when it's raining and you need something to amuse the kids. The whole area is divided into sections for under 2s, which is basically ball pools and Little vehicles to drive in a specially enclosed area, an area for under 5s, which is more of the same but with some slides and climbing frames added, and then there is the real "I am" things. These include a giant slide 3 storey climbing frame, as many nets and tunnels as you can negotiate, basketball area (there are coaching nights), PS2 and x box areas complete with some of the latest games and a mini village with small road system. Definitely something for everything if nerves can take it!! PARTIES We have. Over ...

danielalong 25.08.2006 · Read full review
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