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Dyowthinkhesaurus?

Meet Dudleysaurus Rex.

While Jurassic World is tearing up the box office, a Black Country pensioner is offering some prehistoric competition with his very own dinosaur perched proudly outside his home.

It’s not something you see every day in Dudley.

Little wonder Jake Pearson’s prehistoric pet has children gawping and dads reaching for the camera.

The 9ft tall fibreglass raptor wasn’t off the shelf at the local dinostore either.

Jake got his prize at a Dudley auction – for £600.

And the 72-year-old former HGV driver isn’t stopping there.

“I want one of those long-necked dinosaurs to go on the drive and then a pterodactyl to go on the roof!” he says.

It’s not so surprising when you take a peek INSIDE Jake’s home.

It’s an Aladdin’s Cave of quirky memorabilia he’s been snapping up over the last five years or so which he calls Jake's Private Museum.

Ever since his fading eyesight, caused by macular degeneration, forced him to give up work.

“My eyes have stopped me working,” he said. “And it would do my head in just looking at the four walls.”

The dinosaur is just one of more than 1,000 off-the-wall and original items the great-grandfather has garnered over the years.

“I’ve got an old Silver Cross pram from the 1930s,” he beamed. “I’ve got a Sinclair C5; there’s a nice pair of platform shoes from the 1970s, and a 1930s brass till that works like new.”

The obsession began when the Holly Hall resident decided he would love to have an old cast-iron fireplace just like the one he had when he was a child.

“The next day I got one and that was it, I was up and running”, he laughed.

That doesn’t quite explain the pair of 10ft bronze leaping dolphins. Nor the three-wheel Reliant Tipper truck on his front drive.

“I bought that four years ago. It’s a Del-Boy truck like in Only Fools and Horses,” he explained.

To house the expensive collection, Jake has erected a 60ft extension which, he admits, is full to bursting.

“It’s rammed,” he said. “I haven’t got room to put a postage stamp on the wall!”

Amongst the old white £5 notes, a wind-up gramaphone and a Georgian commode, there’s an old cigarette machine.

“This originally hung on the corner of the street that I grew up in,” he recalled.

“I was a babby. We spent all our time trying to break into it!

“Everything I’ve set out to collect so far, I’ve got. But I need another thousand items to keep me interested.”

What does his wife think of her other half’s hobby? A collection he says he will never sell?

“Well it’s nothing to do with her!” replied Jake. “She’s alright – it’s all in the extension anyway.

“She’s got a few of her own collectables like Franklin Mint items but they’re in the house!”

* Jake is keen to add an Austin J2 pedal car and a Raleigh Mark 1 Chopper to his collection. If you can help, or if you think you have a vintage or quirky item he may be interested in buying, call him on 07930 949337.

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