Snow on Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey

Snow and sunshine on Denbies Wine Estate, near Dorking, Surrey.

Snow on Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Feb 2012,  by Cybermyth13.

The vines are cut back for the winter.

By August, the vines should look like this:

L is for Lego

James May's Toy Stories - Lego House , by Cybermyth13.

In a vineyard outside Dorking in Surrey, a house was built entirely of Lego for a TV programme presented by James May.

Construction took place during August and September 2009. The TV programme was shown in the UK in December 2009 as part of the Toy Stories series. I have a set of photos on Flickr of the construction and demolition (click here) and on my other blog. Conor's pix (click here).

L in Conor's A-Z.

A strange construction - James May's Lego House, Denbies Wine Estate

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James May's Toy Stories - Lego House, Denbies Wine Estate, originally uploaded by Cybermyth13.

At first this looks like an ordinary building site. The odd thing about it though is that the building is made of Lego, that well-known childrens' toy. It was built as part of the TV series James May's Toy Stories. The idea was to build a house made entirely of Lego. For some reason they chose to build the house in a vineyard near Dorking. It so happened that I was visiting my mother in Dorking every Saturday afternoon, so was able to follow the progress of the house building.
They started by constructing hollow "bricks" out of 272 individual lego bricks. For safety reasons they used a wooden frame and constructed the lego walls around the frame. As the "bricks" were hollow, they went around the wooden supports without touching them, so the lego was in fact self-supporting.
When the house was complete, the presenter James May spent a night in the house including sleeping on a bed made of lego. Unfortunately it was too expensive to move the house, so soon after completion the house was demolished, with the lego being given away to charities.
Until recently this was my most viewed photo, probably because it looked so odd.

Construction took place during August and September 2009. The TV programme was shown in the UK in December 2009. I have a set of photos on Flickr of the construction and demolition (click here) and on my other blog. Conor's pix (click here).

The completed building

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