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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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Richard Branson’s Virgin Blue airline was launched in 2000 with two aircraft operating on a single route in Australia. A decade later Virgin Blue had 91 aircraft in its fleet, but it was losing money. In early 2010, the airline rebranded as Virgin Australia. Voyeur was the Virgin Blue
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ONdigital was launched on the 15th November 1998, by Ulrika Jonsson at the Crystal Palace television transmitter in London. By the 8th April 1999, ONdigital announced it had 110,000 subscribers, and by the end of June 1999, it had 247,000. On the 25th April 2001, ONdigital announced that
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