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Save Dreamland Update December 2012
We're delighted to pre-announce our forthcoming presentation of Tim Hunkin and his
Under the Pier Show at Turner Contemporary in Margate as part ofGEEK 2013.
Tim Hunkin is an engineer, cartoonist, writer and artist. He is best known for
creating the Channel 4 television series, The Secret Life of Machines, in which he
explains the workings and history of various household devices. For 15 years Tim
produced the cartoon strip, The Rudiments of Wisdom, for the Observer newspaper.
More recently Tim has been building interactive museum exhibits, curating and
designing exhibitions and has designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly
for entertainment.
GEEK (Games Expo East Kent) is the biggest retro gaming festival in the UK.
We are very interested in telling people about our gaming heritage from its pre-home
entertainment days when the only place to play your fave game was in an amusement
arcade.
Surprisingly very little has been written about the history of amusement arcades
despite their far flung success (I would of course recommend my own book, Pennies
by the Sea from 2006!), so we 've invited Tim to give a visual talk about the history of
the amusement arcade and his ten year long obsession with creating his own
amusement arcade of home-made machines on Southwold Pier in Suffolk.
Times, dates and venues will be posted on the GEEK2013 website at:
http://www.geek2013.co.uk
PROJECT UP-DATE
Last month Jacobs Engineers returned to the Dreamland site to complete a survey on
the condition of the Scenic Railway and Japanese Knotweed was removed from
underneath the structure.
Thanet District Council has now lodged a request for an expedited hearing of the
CPO judicial review - if this is approved we may have a hearing date early next year.
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