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[[File:Clive Nicholls 1991.jpg|thumb|Nicholls in 1991]]
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'''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.
| image        = Clive Nicholls BnP Summer 1991.jpg
| alt          = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software -->
| caption      = Nicholls {{circa|1989}}
| birth_name    = Clive Ambrose Valentine Nicholls
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1932|8|29|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Wikipedia:Portsmouth|Portsmouth]], [[Wikipedia:Hampshire|Hampshire]], England
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2004|2|2|1932|8|29|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Wikipedia:Lydbury North|Lydbury North]], [[Wikipedia:Shropshire|Shropshire]], England
| other_names  =  
| occupation    = Marketing manager
| years_active  =  
| known_for    =  
| notable_works = ''[[Bricks 'n Pieces]]''
}}


== Stuff ==
'''Clive Ambrose Valentine Nicholls''' (29 August 1932 − 2 February 2004)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ringtailraider.neocities.org/WikiArchives/CliveNicholls-records |title=Clive Nicholls registration index records |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref> was a marketing manager at [[LEGO UK Limited]].
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>


BnP stuff here
== Biography ==
Clive Nicholls joined LEGO in 1960.<ref name="Trouw 96"/>


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.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimatelegobook0000unse/page/64/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Ultimate LEGO Book |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Pickering |editor-first2=Nick |editor-last2=Turpin |editor-first3=Caryn |editor-last3=Jenner |p=64 |ISBN=0-7513-5948-3}}</ref>
Nicholls retired by 1999.<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book"/>


== References ==
== References ==
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<ref name="Trouw 96">{{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>
 
<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimatelegobook0000unse/page/64/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Ultimate LEGO Book |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |location=[[Wikipedia:London|London]] |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Pickering |editor-first2=Nick |editor-last2=Turpin |editor-first3=Caryn |editor-last3=Jenner |p=64 |ISBN=0-7513-5948-3 |quote=This chap is a caricature of a former President of the LEGO Club, Clive Nicholls. It was given to him on his last day of work as a leaving gift by his colleagues at Windsor. The figure is 36 cm (15 in) high}}</ref>
}}
 
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Latest revision as of 11:02, 28 September 2025

Clive Nicholls
Nicholls c. 1989
Born
Clive Ambrose Valentine Nicholls

(1932-08-29)29 August 1932
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died2 February 2004(2004-02-02) (aged 71)
Lydbury North, Shropshire, England
OccupationMarketing manager
Notable workBricks 'n Pieces

Clive Ambrose Valentine Nicholls (29 August 1932 − 2 February 2004)[1] was a marketing manager at LEGO UK Limited.

Biography

Clive Nicholls joined LEGO in 1960.[2]

Nicholls retired by 1999.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Clive Nicholls registration index records". Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Hielkema, Haro (6 April 1996). "Engeland heeft nu ook een Legoland" [England now has a Legoland too]. Trouw (in Dutch). 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. ↑ Pickering, David; Turpin, Nick; Jenner, Caryn (eds.). The Ultimate LEGO Book. London: Dorling Kindersley. p. 64. ISBN 0-7513-5948-3. This chap is a caricature of a former President of the LEGO Club, Clive Nicholls. It was given to him on his last day of work as a leaving gift by his colleagues at Windsor. The figure is 36 cm (15 in) high
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