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Walkers Tussauds Photo
Gallery 3
This 1983 photograph
shows Elizabeth Walker alongside a penny slot machine. Brian Walker
possessed an extensive collection of penny arcadia which was placed
in special non-permanent exhibitions; a large proportion of it was
later sold to Spain and the USA.
Photograph: Wes Walker
In 1980, Brian Walker
was one of the team involved in opening up a waxworks attraction in
the cellars beneath the London Palladium. There had been
decision-making hold-ups preventing all the elements of the brochure
from coming together; the pamphlet went ahead with all the wax model
work represented by paintings. Click on the image for a larger view,
and to view inside the brochure,
click here.
Photograph: Wes Walker
From Walkers Tussauds
Palladium Cellars scrapbook. The scrapbook shows Lord Grade and
Walkers Tussauds' models of EG Robinson and Dr Jekyll in 1980. Lord
Grade's companies - ACC, Stoll-Moss, Bermans & Nathans and Pye -
were all assembled behind the Palladium Cellars project. From this
the characters and stars from his ITC films and shows were all made
available to be exclusively captured by Walkers Tussauds in their
Blackpool exhibition of the 1980s and 1990s. Palladium Cellars was
operated by Michael Cerreras' Presentations Unlimited Ltd - a
company described by Wes Walker as one "very similar in outlook to
that of ours". Click on photograph for a larger view.
Photograph: Wes Walker
Walkers Tussauds
werewolf, based on Oliver Reed in 'Curse of the Werewolf', pictured
in 1979. It appeared shaking cell bars at Walkers Tussauds Blackpool
exhibition, as well as in Leeds at Christmastime and also in the
Palkladium Cellars. A similar model was used in the Bridlington
waxworks, but this was a later model with an obscured bare back! Photograph:
Wes Walker
Brian Walker opened a
new exhibition - called 'Record Breaking Humans' - at Filey Butlin's
in 1986. Butlin's had actually closed at the end of the 1983 season
and had reopened as Amtree Park in 1986. Sadly Amtree Park was to
close after only six weeks. This article was on the front page of
the Yorkshire Post on 13 May 1986. Click on image for a slightly
larger view and
click here
to view the front page of a souvenir booklet of the Walkers Tussauds
exhibition.
Photograph: Wes Walker
Brian Walker working on
the Ra Antef model (Ra Antef is the Egyptian Pharoah from the 1965
film 'Curse of the Mummy's Tomb') at the Bridlington waxworks in
1985.
Photograph: Wes Walker
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