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	Knitted village put up for sale

valann 47

4-27-2009 6:25 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f8724101-190f-4e45-a62c-1369b79cd605/C1ADE5CD-E68E-4E58-A1AA-26F261BA8385/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8016362.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8016362.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8016362.stm"><P class="first"><B>A knitted replica of a Kent village with 100 features including teenagers smoking in a bus shelter has been put up for sale.</B>
</P><P>The model of Mersham, near Ashford, has been knitted by members of the village's 40-strong Afternoon Club over the past 23 years. </p> <P>The group has raised about £10,000 for their village hall by exhibiting it. </p> <P>But the creation is now to be split up and sold off because it has become too large to be transported. </p> <P>Since 1986, thousands of hours of handiwork have gone into the village. </p> <P>Creations also include the primary school, church, both pubs, the shop, and residents playing cricket. </p> <P>There are also many houses, complete with flowers in the gardens and cars on the roads, to capture a slice of everyday life of the village, which dates back to the Saxons and has a population of about 1,000. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C1ADE5CD-E68E-4E58-A1AA-26F261BA8385/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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