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'''Clive Nicholls''' was a key figure at [[LEGO UK Limited]] from the 1970s through the 1990s. Nicholls worked as the head of marketing at LEGO UK during much of his time there. He was also the chief editor of the publication ''[[Bricks 'n Pieces]]'' and the president of the LEGO Club in the United Kingdom. Nicholls left LEGO UK at some point between 1996 and 1999.
'''Clive A. V. Nicholls'''<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Bricks 'n Pieces]] |first=Clive |last=Nicholls |title=President's letter |date=Summer 1980 |number=5 |page=1 |url=https://images.brickset.com/library/bricksAndPieces/1980-2%20Summer.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507000329/https://images.brickset.com/library/bricksAndPieces/1980-2%20Summer.pdf |archive-date=7 May 2024}}</ref> was a marketing manager at [[LEGO UK Limited]] from the 1970s through the 1990s. Nicholls was the first editor of the publication ''[[Bricks 'n Pieces]]'' and was the president of the LEGO Club in the United Kingdom from its foundation in 1979 until the mid-1990s.


== Stuff ==
== Stuff ==
Clive Nicholls started working at LEGO UK (then called British LEGO Ltd) around 1960.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.trouw.nl/voorpagina/engeland-heeft-nu-ook-een-legoland~be69e5ca |title=Engeland heeft nu ook een Legoland |first=Haro |last=Hielkema |date=6 April 1996 |newspaper=[[Wikipedia:Trouw|Trouw]] |publisher=[[Wikipedia:DPG Media|DPG Media]] |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506134431/https://www.trouw.nl/voorpagina/engeland-heeft-nu-ook-een-legoland~be69e5ca |archive-date=6 May 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited |quote='De spirit is hier gelijk aan die in Billund', zegt voorlichter Clive Nicholls, die al 36 jaar voor het concern werkt. |trans-title=England now has a Legoland too |trans-quote="The spirit here is the same as in Billund," says spokesperson Clive Nicholls, who has worked for the group for 36 years.}}</ref>
Clive Nicholls started working at LEGO UK (then called British LEGO Ltd) in 1960,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.trouw.nl/voorpagina/engeland-heeft-nu-ook-een-legoland~be69e5ca |title=Engeland heeft nu ook een Legoland |first=Haro |last=Hielkema |date=6 April 1996 |newspaper=[[Wikipedia:Trouw|Trouw]] |publisher=[[Wikipedia:DPG Media|DPG Media]] |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506134431/https://www.trouw.nl/voorpagina/engeland-heeft-nu-ook-een-legoland~be69e5ca |archive-date=6 May 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited |quote='De spirit is hier gelijk aan die in Billund', zegt voorlichter Clive Nicholls, die al 36 jaar voor het concern werkt. |trans-title=England now has a Legoland too |trans-quote="The spirit here is the same as in Billund," says spokesperson Clive Nicholls, who has worked for the group for 36 years.}}</ref> the same year that LEGO sets were first sold in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Bricks 'n Pieces]] |first=Clive |last=Nicholls |title=President's letter |date=Spring 1990 |number=34 |page=2}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 22:54, 9 May 2024

Nicholls in 1989

Clive A. V. Nicholls[1] was a marketing manager at LEGO UK Limited from the 1970s through the 1990s. Nicholls was the first editor of the publication Bricks 'n Pieces and was the president of the LEGO Club in the United Kingdom from its foundation in 1979 until the mid-1990s.

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Clive Nicholls started working at LEGO UK (then called British LEGO Ltd) in 1960,[2] the same year that LEGO sets were first sold in the United Kingdom.[3]

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By 1999 Nicholls had left LEGO UK. On his last day of work, colleagues from LEGOLAND Windsor gifted him a 36 cm-high LEGO figure of himself.[4]

References

  1. Nicholls, Clive (Summer 1980). "President's letter" (PDF). Bricks 'n Pieces. No. 5. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 May 2024.
  2. Hielkema, Haro (6 April 1996). "Engeland heeft nu ook een Legoland" [England now has a Legoland too]. Trouw (in Nederlands). DPG Media. Archived from the original on 6 May 2024. 'De spirit is hier gelijk aan die in Billund', zegt voorlichter Clive Nicholls, die al 36 jaar voor het concern werkt. ["The spirit here is the same as in Billund," says spokesperson Clive Nicholls, who has worked for the group for 36 years.]
  3. Nicholls, Clive (Spring 1990). "President's letter". Bricks 'n Pieces. No. 34. p. 2.
  4. Pickering, David; Turpin, Nick; Jenner, Caryn (eds.). The Ultimate LEGO Book. Dorling Kindersley. p. 64. ISBN 0-7513-5948-3.