The greatest number of participants in a circle formation dance were 6,748 who performed the Hokey-cokey at Bangor, Co. Down, UK, as part of the VE day celebrations on 6 May 1995

Zhan Wang (China) created a model of London using over 1,000 pots, pans and kitchen utensils. The London Eye wheel is a ball of stainless-steel wire and St Paul’s Cathedral is a large oven dish. It featured in the Universal Experience exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK, from 6 October – 11 December 2005.

The record for the largest collage of cut out handprints is 30,006 and was achieved by the Scout Association at Baden-Powell House, London, UK, on 23 October 2007.

The record for the largest coconut ensemble was 5,877 people who played their coconuts to the tune of Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. The event was organised by the west end production of ‘Spamalot’ to celebrate St. Georges Day at Trafalgar Square, London, UK on 23 April 2007. Craig Glenday adjudicated. Great pictures of the event with picture desk.

John Williams (UK) has a collection of 9,748 decorative pins in the form of rugby lapel badges that he has amassed since the 1950’s.

Karen Ferrier (UK) has 1,117 different dalmatian-related items that she has amassed since 1991, as of 3 February 2009. Karen’s collection includes a car and the items that used to belong to Dodie Smith, the author of 101 Dalmatians.

Darren Martin (UK) has a collection of 441 crab-related items, as of 9 March 2011, that he has been collecting for over 10 years. Dr Martin did his doctorate on Zinc and Cadmium in the haemolymph of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. His work is summed up by his friends and family as ‘Darren studied crabs.’ His collection started when he was given a crab pencil sharpener. His website is www.brachyura.co.uk.

Ann Atkin (UK) has 2,042 gnomes and pixies, as of March 2011, all of which live in her 1.6-ha (4-acre) Gnome Reserve in West Putford, Devon, UK. 

Sheila Crown of Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK has a collection of 10,502 frog items that she has been collecting since 1979. The frogs were put on display at the FrogsGalore Museum, Marlborough, UK on 12 May 2002. Sheila began her collection in 1979, when she bought a frog for her green-painted study. Since then, the collection grew so large that she was forced to move to a bigger house.  It consequently took removal men seven days to pack the collection.  The pinnacle of her hobby is Continue reading →

The largest collection of playable musical instruments made entirely from matchsticks is 10, held by Tony Hall of Hove, East Sussex. The instruments, constructed from used wooden matchsticks by Tony’s deceased father Jack Hall include: violin, chin-rest and bow, Neopolitan mandolin, acoustic guitar, flat-back mandolin, tenor banjo, bones (percussion), castanets, descant recorder, drumsticks and ukulele. The construction of the first instrument was finished in 1936, and a total of 106,000 matches have been used in the collection. Jack passed away in 1993 at the age Continue reading →