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The Richmond Square Mall
Magic of Christmas Display 1985 |
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RICHMOND REVIEW
SUPPLEMENT - NOVEMBER 24 - 1985
Model Maker Al Brinkworth puts the finishing touches to his charming and intricate Christmas Village. These displays can be seen at Richmond Square until Christmas. Photo Credit: Richmond Review |
RICHMOND NEWS-
NOVEMBER 21 - 1985
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A "PALYWAG" was a Brinkworth Models creation, in the form of a small elf like creature that we manufactured ourselves. They can be seen above, working in the TOY WORKS, all mechanically operated, and moving continually with hammers and brushes etc, building the toys. |
TOY DEPOT, with palywags carefully loading the Santa Sleigh, with Santa standing by, checking his Christmas Eve delivery list. Our palywags, could be found all over our 1985, Richmond Square Christmas display, when all thee of our displays were on show that year. |
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Our LGB miniature trains, ran from one town center to the other along a
24 foot long, "dog bone" looped
railway track. An 8 foot long, double track
railway bridge (above), running along the back of the Santa House,
allowed the train to run continually. |
Christmas Town was the last display that Brinkworth Models made for
Richmond Square Mall. Wish we could have continued
with the displays, as it was a lot of fun building them.
However, we had a good three year run with them, so it was time for a
change. |
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| Palywags popping out everywhere, throughout our Christmas Town display. | Santa's Living room with fireplace and chair for the "Photo's with Santa" | |
THREE Christmas displays to be featured at
Richmond Square Mall are the product of Al Brinkworth and his family
(wife Elza and Son Barry). A complete Dickens-like village
will be of special interest when it is introduced next week.
Mr. Brinkworth operates Brinkworth Model & Design Consultants Ltd. in
Richmond. (Don Dutkowski photo)