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Photos from AGPC's
Convention 2005 in London
See the entire, detailed
convention agenda and program
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Saturday 23 April
- There's a mad dash via the
Tube to a Kinko's on Chancery Lane to print the convention brochure.
A delay ensues: We need to convert (Mac to PC, USA page size to
A4, and so on)
- So it's 9 pm or so and we
crave an Indian dinner. So as we exit the Leicester Square Tube
station, a guy is holding a sign for an Indian restaurant, and so away
we go! It was good; we were cranky!
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Sunday, 24 April
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Monday, 25 April
- The first official day of
convention activities... with an outstanding set of speakers from several
continents
- Plus lunch at a Greek
restaurant not far from Abbey Road, where vehicles expect frolic whilst
we cross the street
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Tuesday, 26 April
- A tour of the
British Museum
with Irving Finkel, starting with the Royal Game of Ur
- A visit to the Bethnal Green
Museum, a museum in transition from exhibiting games, toys, and puzzles,
to a hands-on experience for youngsters.
- How many puzzle and game
people do you think can fit into a puzzle store? Just visit
Village Games in Camden Lock! We did,
then escaped to a nearby
pub.
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Wednesday, 27 April
- The second official day of
convention activities, and a very awarding one for Francis Spear and
Victor Watson
- Thursday, 28 April
- AGPC members trek to
Oxford
where the Board Games Studies group is meeting
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Friday, 29 April
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Richard Ballam welcomes AGPC
members to his house, a former pub ( a few centuries ago) and his
incredible collection of games by Jaques and others
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The Spears open their Archives
and other collections to AGPC, with plenty of food and drinks and a
splendid opportunity to play croquet on their lawn with the baa-ing
lambs wandering here and thereabouts in the ha-ha
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Saturday, 30 April
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Penny Melling corrals AGPC
members to her house after every one of them fails to get off at the
Overton station. Her house puzzled all ye who entered there.
And her gardens (with rabbits multiplying to and fro) were admired by
all
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