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12608 Torquil Norman with a range of Bluebird Toys’ for Express. 22-8-1995
Feature for Daily Express on Bluebird...
11449 Jo Greenwell with the new Bluebird Toys Powerball. 19-4-1994
Jo Greenwell demonstrated the new Bluebird Toys Pawerball outside their Kembury Park Swindon...
8210 Tom Charnock Bluebird Toys feature. 12-9-1990
Pictures from a WDP feature shoot with Tom Charnock of Blue Bird Toya...
4917 Times feature pictures Bluebird Toys 20-11-1987
Bluebird Toys feature for the Times newspaper featuring Torquil Norman. ©CALYX Pictures ARCHIVE Torquil Norman with the iconic Bluebird Toys Big Yellow Teapot shortly after the new factory on Kembury Park opened (Pictures for Times feature) ©CALYX Pictures ARCHIVE...
22-4-1987 Bluebird toys opens new factory (4373)
Bluebird toys opens a new factory production line ©CALYX Pictures ARCHIVE Bluebird Toys new factory on Kembury Park opened by Mayor Sid Daniels ©CALYX Pictures ARCHIVE Bluebird Toys new factory on Kembury Park opened by Mayor Sid Daniels ©CALYX Pictures ARCHIVE...
Opening of Bluebird toys 22-5-1984
In 1980 Torquil Norman (seen in the pictures with Mayor Harry Garrett) founded Bluebird Toys with his first product being the now famous Big Yellow Teapot House. Breaking with tradition and creating a new architectural style of dolls house, Bluebird Toys came up with...