Disneyland Leeds: Disney & Harry Potter Collector Catherine Hamilton

National World - LocalTV

We visit a Bramley home bursting with all things Disney as collector Catherine Hamilton reflects on her ‘Disneyland Paris Tips and Fanpage’ FB page popularity. Her staircase is also inspired by Diagon Alley from Harry Potter!

Transcript

00:00 When you're a collector, you never stop collecting.

00:03 Things just appear in your house,

00:05 whether it be every day, every week, every month,

00:07 every time I take a trip.

00:08 I will never, ever complete this collection.

00:11 It will just only keep growing.

00:12 As long as Disney keep making items, I will keep collecting.

00:15 My name is Katherine Hamilton.

00:17 I live here in Bramley, Leeds,

00:19 also known as the Disney Castle of Leeds.

00:22 So obviously you're gonna be looking at my Disney collection

00:24 which spreads the whole entire place of the house or castle.

00:29 I developed my Disney Facebook page

00:31 after taking my son, Archer,

00:32 who I think was about three years old

00:34 when we first started going.

00:35 And we went to Disneyland Paris.

00:37 And after going a few times,

00:38 I thought, actually, I can kind of spread this magic around

00:41 to spread a few tips and stuff.

00:42 So I made a Facebook called

00:44 Disneyland Paris Tips and Fan Page

00:46 and just spread a little bit of Disney magic,

00:47 helping people book their holidays and things like that.

00:50 That's developed over the years.

00:52 And I now do shopping for people.

00:54 So when I go on holiday,

00:55 I can pick bits and pieces up for them

00:57 and send it anywhere in the world.

00:59 Obviously on the back of going to Disneyland Paris so much

01:01 means you get a lot of Disney items,

01:04 hence why I'm now a collector.

01:06 Not just me, but obviously Archie as well.

01:09 It has overloaded into his bedroom.

01:11 He's a massive plushie collector of Disney,

01:13 so all things Disney plush,

01:14 and he can't throw them away, as I mentioned,

01:16 because we may have feelings, Toy Story and all that.

01:20 And I feel a bit guilty too.

01:22 And then Poseidon, my new little baby,

01:24 he has also started a little collection

01:26 of his very own of Mickey Mouses as well.

01:28 I've got many, many items,

01:30 and every single item,

01:31 whether it be of a high value or a low value,

01:33 means a lot to me.

01:35 Obviously it is nice to have some rare items

01:37 that are a little bit rarer,

01:39 either financially or just sentimentally.

01:42 So I'm part of the Inside Ears group

01:44 over in Disneyland Paris,

01:45 which is like a bit of a media team.

01:47 And on the back of that, the Marvel Hotel,

01:49 which used to be called the New York Hotel,

01:52 it was a New York themed,

01:53 and the Inside Ears sent me over a little bundle.

01:56 And in that I got a fragrance,

01:58 because in the hotel that used to be,

02:00 there's a fragrance pumped through the hotel

02:02 to make it smell like New York.

02:04 They sent me a bottle of that,

02:05 which is completely unavailable now,

02:07 and also a shower curtain.

02:08 So my shower curtain is actually from the hotel

02:11 in Disneyland Paris.

02:12 I feel like a celebrity when I go to Disneyland Paris,

02:14 'cause I'll just be walking around the park,

02:16 and they'll be like, "Hi, Catherine."

02:17 It's like, "Oh, hi, do you follow the page?"

02:19 I'll be like, "Oh, yeah, sorry."

02:20 Because they feel like they know me as well,

02:22 because I speak to everybody individually so much,

02:24 like when I come across on the camera to them.

02:26 I'm sure a lot of people on my page would agree with me

02:29 that a lot of people that like Disney, it's very magic.

02:32 That's why we love it.

02:33 Magic kind of then also floating, obviously, to Harry Potter.

02:38 So I find a lot of people that like Disney

02:39 also like Harry Potter and vice versa.

02:41 So I do have another collection

02:44 that kind of leads down my staircase,

02:45 and I have got my very own Diagon Alley.

02:48 So every time I come to bed or use the bathroom,

02:51 I have to walk up Diagon Alley

02:53 with the hand-painted glitter ceiling,

02:54 which took me about two or three weeks.

02:56 I think with Disney and Harry Potter in my house,

02:59 there's not probably a more magical house in Bromley,

03:02 that's for sure.

Category

Transcript

Recommended