A toy ghost train attracts the attention of Erin Harding, aged four, at the Lego World Show in the Colombo Street store of the Farmers Trading Company. The exhibition, which was prepared in Denmark, ends at noon on September 14. By that time more than 70,000 people are expected to have visited it. Lego building bricks were invented in the 1950s by Godfrey Christiansen, of Billund, Denmark, and captured the imagination of children all over the world. More than 800,000 bricks are used in the models on display. Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER
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Press, 30 August 1985, Page 1
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92A toy ghost train attracts the attention of Erin Harding, aged four, at the Lego World Show in the Colombo Street store of the Farmers Trading Company. The exhibition, which was prepared in Denmark, ends at noon on September 14. By that time more than 70,000 people are expected to have visited it. Lego building bricks were invented in the 1950s by Godfrey Christiansen, of Billund, Denmark, and captured the imagination of children all over the world. More than 800,000 bricks are used in the models on display. Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER Press, 30 August 1985, Page 1
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