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One lucky Greater Manchester primary school got a surprise when Doctor Who?s TARDIS appeared in their school grounds.

As the television Timelord's adventures began again on BBC TV This particular TARDIS was travelling to Newall Green Primary School in Wythenshawe to take up pride of place. Now permanent fixture at Newall Green Primary School since the school won first prize for the MOSI Time Traveller Competition, which was organised by MOSI, in Manchester.

Primary schools throughout Greater Manchester took part in the MOSI competition, for which classes submitted posters about a significant historic figure from Manchester?s past. Newall Green?s colourful fabric poster told the story of Richard Roberts, the little known mechanical engineer who moved to Manchester in 1816, and helped to develop the textile machinery which allowed mass, cheap manufacture of cotton. The school?s poster about Richard Roberts will be published on the MOSI website, with runners-up.

Excited

Sarah Rudd, Head Teacher at Newall Green Primary School said: ?The children are really excited that the TARDIS will be coming to our school. They put so much effort into the poster project on Richard Roberts, so it?s wonderful to have won this unusual prize, and to know that our poster is on display for other children to see. We have a lot of Doctor Who fans at Newall Green, so I know the TARDIS is going to be a very popular spot in the playground!?

Tony Hill, Acting Director at MOSI said: ?The TARDIS has attracted a lot of attention at the Museum since it was created by our technical staff for the recent Doctor Who Up Close exhibition. We thought it would be great if children could be inspired by this popular TV icon, to become time travellers themselves back into Manchester?s history. We?ve had some fantastic entries for our Time Traveller competition, but Newall Green Primary School?s entry was particularly inventive, colourful and informative. I hope the pupils enjoy having the TARDIS in their school grounds, and perhaps it may even encourage them to think about some of Manchester?s other great historic figures.?

Created by the technical team of the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) to promote the recent Doctor Who Up-Close exhibition. The TARDIS was an important feature of the exhibition in Manchester, which attracted over 225,000 people. During the exhibition - which ran between March 2007 and this January, the TARDIS was spotted promoting the monster collection in Manchester city centre, Warrington, Bolton, Stockport, Bury and Altrincham.

TARDIS stands for ?Time and Relative Dimension in Space?. It is an unreliable old time machine in the form of a 1950s police call box, which is much larger on the inside than the outside. The TARDIS is used by the Doctor to travel through time and space.

Most Popular

Doctor Who Up-Close opened last year to coincide with the start of the third TV series of Doctor Who. It was MOSI?s most popular exhibition to date and was extended by popular demand from its original closing date of 5 November.

MOSI?s current special exhibition is BODY WORLDS 4 and tickets are now on sale priced ?10.00/?11.50 (Mon-Thur/Fri-Sun), ?7.00/?8.50 (children/youth), or ?8.00/ ?9.50 (senior citizens/students with ID). Special group rates apply. Tickets are available from the MOSI box office and on our website at www.mosi.org.uk. For phone ticket orders please call 0871 231 0847, for group booking 0844 412 4650. For more information on BODY WORLDS go to www.bodyworlds.com

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