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The Excalibur estate in Catford, London Borough of Lewisham is the UK's largest remaining estate of post-WW2 prefab houses, with 187 Uni-Seco wooden frame bungalows plus a flat-roofed prefab church. While residents fought to save the entire 187-unit estate, English Heritage wanted to save 21 examples, and the council, which still owns 80% of ...
May 6, 2021, Wentworth Wooden Puzzles released a series of mini jigsaw puzzles to promote the mindfulness and wellbeing that jigsaw puzzles can provide while also supporting mental health awareness week, Money from the sale of puzzles during that week were donated to Mind, a UK mental health charity. [5]
The Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944 planned the building of 300,000 prefab houses in Britain over the next four years. They were to have a structural lifetime of between 10 and 15 years. In the end just over 150,000 were built. [2]
Gibsons Games (Gibsons) is an independent, family-owned UK board game and jigsaw puzzle company and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. [1] Gibsons is the trading name of H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd. The fourth generation of the Gibsons family now runs the company. The company is headquartered in Sutton, England.
The Jumbo head office is located in the Netherlands and there are also offices in the UK, Germany and Belgium. [1] Previous to being known as Jumbo Games in the UK, the company was called Falcon Games and this was the brand name given to its range of adult puzzles. Falcon was established in 1976 and Jumbo is often still referred to by the ...
When Lewisham council took over the estate in 1965, this letter was then made void, as Lewisham council never agreed to uphold the content of this letter. Nor had Excalibur Estate been designated a temporary housing estate. Uni-Seco, the prefab manufacturers and builders, never claimed their homes had a limited life span of only 10 years. [18]
"Europe divided into its kingdoms, etc." (1766) Believed to be the first purpose-made jigsaw puzzle. John Spilsbury (/I.P.A. spɪlsbəri/ 1739 – 3 April 1769) [1] was a British cartographer and engraver. He is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle. Spilsbury created them for educational purposes, and called them "Dissected Maps". [2] [3]
Waddingtons became the UK publisher of the US Parker Brothers' Monopoly, while Parker licensed Waddingtons' Cluedo. [2] In 1941, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence section 9 (MI9) had the company create a special edition of Monopoly for World War II prisoners of war held by the Germans. [ 3 ]