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« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2009, 06:13:45 AM »


He adds: "She wishes she'd married a normal person"
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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2009, 06:14:36 AM »


Mr Garrard, from Norfolk , spent more than three years researching the temple, which was destroyed by the Romans 2,000 years ago and deemed to be one of the most remarkable buildings of ancient times
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« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2009, 06:15:13 AM »


He then started to construct the amazing 1:100 scale model, which is now housed in a huge building in his back garden
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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2009, 06:15:43 AM »


"Everything is made by hand. I cut plywood frames for the walls and buildings and all the clay bricks and tiles were baked in the oven then stuck together," he says
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« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2009, 06:16:10 AM »


Built in 19BC by King Herod the Great, the temple was flattened in AD70, just six years after completion
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2009, 06:16:38 AM »


In its heyday the temple complex covered 36 acres - four times the area of Windsor Castle
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