Bekonscot Model Village, England
Today I am reporting on the oldest original model village in the world in the world It portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930s. Bekonscot was created in the 1920s by a Beaconsfield resident, Roland Callingham (1881–1961), and opened to the public on 4 August 1929. Callingham, an accountant, developed the master plan for his miniature empire as an addition to his large back garden, drawing in help from his staff: the gardener, cook, maid and chauffeur. Together they developed the model landscape portraying rural England at the time. The swimming pool became the first "sea" and the undulating rockeries were built up as hills. Bassett-Lowke, the large-scale model railway manufacturers, were commissioned to build an extensive Gauge 1 railway network for the project. [ Callingham named the village Bekonscot after Beaconsfield and Ascot, where he had lived previously. Bekonscot was n...