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A wall hanging or mat featuring "The Magic Roundabout", the iconic BBC Television children's programme. Found in France the panel is edged with white braid edging - very 1960s! All those memorable characters are there: Dougal the dog, Brian the snail, Florence, Zebedee and Dylan the rabbit.
Excellent to decorate a nursery or playroom, also amazing fabric to use in craft projects.
Great vintage condition
measurements 23.5 inches wide x 14.5 inches deep (60 x 37 cm).
Source: Scan of an original photograph.
Image: P30451.
Date: 1972.
© 1972 Swindon Advertiser.
Used here by very kind permission.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
'Magic Roundabout'-branded Mini Pointer Dart SLF, 561 (NK53TLF), in Vine Place, Sunderland - 21st February 2008.
‘Magic Roundabout’-branded Mini Pointer Dart, 561 (NK53TLF), approaches Sunderland Interchange on the afternoon of July 24th 2007.
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
Architects; Blue Leanie, GMW Partnership.
Architects; County Offices, Bucks County Council, Architects Department.
Architects; Waterside Theatre, RHWL Arts Team.
Photo 6 shows all three buildings together from other side of the canal, so far so good but on crossing the canal, in front of the building you come face to face to a vision (photo7) for which my architectural taste buds with a life time of exposure to modern architecture were not quite prepared to take.
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
The Magic Roundabout originated as a French programme called Le Manège enchanté.
Dougal was Pollux in the original French-language version, a British character who speaks somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent as a result of Ivor Wood's role as co-creator.
The other characters were Zebedee (Zébulon), a jack-in-the-box; Brian (Ambroise), a snail; Ermintrude (Azalée), a cow, and Dylan (Flappy) a rabbit, who in the French version was Spanish. There are two notable human characters: Florence (Margote), a young girl; and Mr Rusty (le Père Pivoine), the operator of the roundabout.
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-21 )
Source: scan of an original photograph.
Image: P50743
Date: c.1972?
Copyright: © Wiltshire Newspapers.
Kindly supplied to Local Studies by SBC's Traffic Management & Road Safety Team in July 2024.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
www.swindon.gov.uk/localstudies
Copyright: Swindon Advertiser.
All rights reserved. Used by kind permission.
100 Victoria Road, Swindon SN1 3BE
Source: Civic News.
Ref: (No.78) : April 1970, p.3.
Date: April 1970.
Copyright: ©1970 SBC.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
The International North West 200, May 1980.
The third bike is #67, ridden by John Robinson. The 4th rider in this shot remains unidentified.
See www.northwest200.org/ for details of this historic great race event.
( File: 1980-nw-200-18 )
1980 North West 200
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Architects; GMW Partnership, 1982. The building in the background (the one which is not drunk) is by other architects.
This is the view which greets you after leaving the County Offices and crossing the road. You are entering on the side where the building leans towards you.
Sculptures by Pierre Vivant, Ocean Way roundabout, Cardiff. (Known locally as "The Magic Roundabout".)
'Blue Leanie'
Architects; GMW Partnership, 1982.
It is claimed that the trees in front were planted to stop the blinding reflection for oncoming traffic.
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-14 )
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-19 )
1980 North West 200
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Three more characters, borrowed from a friend, from the old TV series, Magic Roundabout.
Dylan the rabbit, Brian the snail and of course Dougal.
See my earlier image of Ermintrude for more information.
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-12 )
Tonight we went to the Movement for Liveable London's monthly Street Talks event, where presenter Andrew Cameron gave his take on making streets more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly. Here he's showing us the 'Magic Roundabout', which he's unconvinced by!
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-15 )
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-16 )
Dorothy Gilling (b.1896) pushing her brother Lionel (b. 1905) in pram.
Source: Scan of a photograph from our image collection.
Image: P30453.
Date: 1900.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
1980 North West 200
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( File: 1980-nw-200-13 )