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A teasmade features briefly in fourth episode of the second series of Fawlty Towers, which is called ‘The Kipper and the Corpse’. In this episode Basil takes some out of date kippers up to a guest for his breakfast, but fails to notice that the guest has died in his
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Original article published in The Guardian, by Laura Barton, Tuesday 12 June 2007 It was once a symbol of all that was good and right about Britain: a bedside contraption that not only worked as an alarm clock but also brewed a cup of tea, coordinated to the precise hour
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2007 was a strong year for the teasmade and there was a great deal of media attention for the Teasmade team.
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Over the last two days Doug Fennell and I have been visited by Touch Productions’ ‘low impact crew’ (gosh, I’m picking up the lingo already!) for a 15 minute documentary short for Channel 4. The programme will be one in a series of five on great British inventions. The
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Doug and his collection featured on the programme ‘Off The Beaten Track’ which was screened on London ITV on Thursday 25th May at 7.30 pm. The presenter was Nigel Farrel of A Place in France (remember Nippie & Nigel?) We thought Nigel portrayed the history of the teasmade very
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Adam Vince created the Tea:Total beverage maker in 2006 as a design project for his degree. It features a large lamp, am/fm radio, milk cooler and removable kettle. The water is manually pumped using the bellows at the top, this means the unit can be used as a
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I nominated the Teasmade as an ICON of England in April 2006. This website was the first project of ICONS Online, a not-for-profit organisation whose aim was to provide stimulating interactive ways of exploring different cultural landscapes. ICONS really captured people’s imaginations and they received literally thousands
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A reader sent me this article from Helen McDermott‘s column in the East Anglian Daily Times. She describes her purchase of a Teasmade while filming for her Anglia TV series ‘Boot Sale Challenge’: “Being there to work, to make a programme, I set myself strict rules about remaining detached
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A series of articles in the Evening Standard and the Telegraph in February 2002 sparked a Euro-Myth that the teasmade was about to meet its demise. Thankfully this was not the case. Brussels calls time on Teasmade, Nigel Rosser (22.2.02) The Teasmade is dead. And today the
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Instruments of Darkness, a book featuring the Sixth Doctor Who, was released on 5th November 2001. This was was the forty-eighth novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Gary Russell, one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane
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The following article appeared in Saturday’s Telegraph Weekend section, page 6 on 29th September 2001. The article was by Catriona Howaston and illustrated by the Hulton Archive picture of a D21 plus tray and crockery (not shown here – I have used one of my library of photos instead). The
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Teasmades featured in the Sunday Times colour magazine in The Facts of Life section on September 23rd 2001. The article by Kathy Brewis (how appropriate is that?!!!) was headlined: ‘EUREKA! SCIENTIFIC MILESTONES’, and it used a DO1P1 picture from the Argos catalogue as an illustration. It read: The concept behind
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