A five-metre-tall fox puppet on a scooter will tour seven towns as part of a Historic England project to “celebrate the identity and history of high streets”. The mechanical puppet, which will be ...

Can you imagine a Bruegel painting coming alive, with all its tiny characters starting to move according to individual scripts? A century ago, an illiterate Russian craftsman managed to do something ...

Ten metres tall and 40 tonnes in weight, this enormous mechanical puppet looms high over the houses in sleepy Tavistock. Today crowds gathered to watch the giant creation – made to resemble a miner – ...

'Miner' is a major feat of Cornish engineering and is the same height as a double-decker bus when crawling HERE’S one for heavy metal fans, the biggest mechanical puppet ever constructed in Britain.

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A five-metre-tall fox puppet on a scooter will tour seven towns as part of a Historic England project to “celebrate the identity and history of high streets”. The mechanical puppet, which will be ...