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THE SCIENCE MUSEUM COLLECTING BOXES  1987
A small donation was enough to pay for the museum’s entire security, cleaning, workshop or curatorial staff for a few seconds. Insert a donation and the figure would ‘work’ for the appropriate length of time. All the characters are portraits of real employees, though only Peggy was a good likeness. At the time, they were regarded with great suspicion by the museum staff as they were was one of the first manifestations of a new director's regime. The technician who had spent years restoring the stock exchange clock just could not bare to see it in a showcase with a 'cardboard' figure so he hid the clock the day before it was to be installed. (These boxes were only in use for 18 months or so because compulsory entry charges were introduced in 1988).
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Peggy the cleaner dusts the microscope with a fine brush cleaner.jpg (12287 bytes)

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The warder simply looked from side to side, pausing occasionally to look at his watch as the job was sometimes rather boring.
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Mike Ball the workshop technician tightens a screw on the old stock exchange clock
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Peter Turvey the curator scratches his head and puffs his pipe
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