Bridge Classic Cars Kids is about inspiring children and their families with fun, engaging stories that blend history, creativity, and important life lessons. Children can learn of our history, alongside Rilee as they can journey to museums, exhibitions, reliving the beautiful stories once told.
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Max and Molly are visiting primary schools around Suffolk as part of our World Book Day celebrations.
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Max and Molly will be visiting primary schools across Suffolk on Friday 6th March, to deliver posters for pupils to take home. They will also be calling into bookshops! You may see them out and about throughout the day, so make sure you wave and say hello […]
Max and Molly are getting ready to visit Suffolk primary schools in a few weeks time. They are very excited to see you all soon… More information can be found here.
We are incredibly proud that Bridge Classic Cars Kids has been named a finalist in the Behaviour Change Campaign of the Year category at the Clean & Green Awards 2026! The awards are all about celebrating sustainability, innovation and environmental leadership across East Anglia. Our kids program was launched to use classic cars and storytelling […]
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre is a very cool science museum in Widnes, Cheshire, England. It’s all about making science, especially chemistry and technology, exciting and accessible for people of all ages. It is based in a very special four-storey building by the River Mersey. There are more than 80 interactive exhibits, a live-science theatre, and […]
Most original tools from car factories don’t survive when production comes to an end. Lots of them get melted down for scrap or thrown away when they’re no longer needed. Sometimes though, old tools do survive, like this… This block of metal was most likely used to make badges for cars produced by an old […]
Peppa Pig’s little brother George is learning that he is moderately deaf. He will find out in a new episode coming soon, and his whole family wants to help children everywhere understand that being different is just another way of being you. What Does This Mean for George? George has always been Peppa’s quiet, dinosaur-loving […]
On 2nd February every year in the Suffolk town of Woodbridge, children go to a pub to eat jam rolls. This is to celebrate a tradition known as Carlow’s Dole, and this has been happening for almost 300 years. Who Was George Carlow? George Carlow was a man who lived near what is now The […]
Mercedes-Benz has started a year-long celebration to mark 140 years since Carl Benz filed the patent for the first ever automobile (car). It all started with the world premiere of the latest S-Class at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. 140 Places, One Global Journey Three new S-Class Saloons are now on a 50,000km journey across […]
Peter Parker has some competition when it comes to being the only Spiderman, as an American climber has climbed a skyscraper with no ropes, harness, safety net, or climbing equipment. The climber, Alex Honnold, climbed Taipei 101,in Taiwan. The building is 508 metres tall and looks a bit like a rocket. It’s made from glass, […]
For the first time ever, a battery‑powered electric heavy‑goods vehicle (a big lorry) travelled through the Channel Tunnel using LeShuttle Freight, a special train service that carries lorries and their drivers under the English Channel. After going through the tunnel, the electric lorry carried on its journey and eventually travelled more than 1000 miles across […]
You can be one of the very first people to read our incredible children’s book, The Story of Rilee. The Story of Rilee is our debut storybook, introducing Rilee, a very old, very special car brought back to life in a world very different from the one he remembered. Alongside new friends Luxy and Eco, […]
Lego has just introduced something totally new: Smart Bricks! These new blocks can light up, make sounds, and react to movement. Lego showed off the Smart Bricks at a tech event in Las Vegas called CES 2026, and they say it’s their biggest idea in nearly 50 years! The first Smart Brick set coming out […]
Thanks to a generous gift from local businessman Guy Nicholls, Kesgrave is getting a brand-new BMX pump track. It will be built in early 2026, and Guy, who leads the Tru7 Group, is funding the entire project himself at a cost of over £100,000! A pump track is a special type of looped path made […]
Imagine a truck that can drive through deep water, climb muddy hills, pull heavy machines, and still be safe and gentle to the planet. Sounds like a superhero, right? Well, Mercedes-Benz has built a real-life hero truck called the Unimog! The Environment Agency has added two of these wonderful machines to its fleet of specialist […]
A German engineer has made history as the first wheelchair user to travel to space. Michaela Benthaus was one of six passengers aboard a Blue Origin capsule on a ten-minute suborbital flight. The rocket lifted off and crossed the Kármán line, the internationally recognised boundary of space, before descending back to Earth. After landing, Michaela […]
Merry Christmas from Rilee, Luxy, and Eco! 2026 is going to be a very exciting year so we all hope you have a fantastic Christmas and we will see you very soon!
It’s going to be an extremely busy day and night for Father Christmas. Rilee and his friends are keeping a close eye on his progress to make sure he is on track to deliver presents to everyone. You can track Father Christmas right here: Read more news for kids here
Back in the 1920s, a British car company called Star of Wolverhampton made cars that were perfect for racing. These cars competed in some of the world’s earliest big races! One of these cars was raced by one of the most famous racers of all time, Sir Malcolm Campbell. Sir Campbell would later set land […]
NASA has just introduced 10 brand-new astronauts who might one day visit the Moon or even walk on Mars! These astronauts were chosen from more than 8,000 people who all dreamed of working in space. After lots of tests and interviews, NASA picked six women and four men who are scientists, engineers, and test pilots. […]
OMODA UK, the UK’s fast-growing car brand, helped celebrate the UK premiere of Avatar: Fire and Ash. The premiere took place on 11th December 2025 at the BFI IMAX, one of the biggest cinemas in the UK! Some of the film’s stars and filmmakers showed up to walk the blue carpet. Normally, this would be […]
Hey, I’m Rilee. Last month I got to go to London for a very special evening at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, just around the corner from Buckingham Palace. It was an amazing evening, full of very important people all looking very smart and dapper. The awards happen every year and they celebrate […]
This weekend on BBC Strictly Come Dancing Paddington and Tom Fletcher hit the dancefloor for a musical performance of “The Bear in the Ballroom”. Backed by a live band accompanying Tom Fletcher’s piano and vocals, the performanced was accompanied by a beautiful routine from the Strictly professionals before Paddington made an appearance to complete the […]
Did you know that the cars we have on the road today can be made more sustainable simply by changing the fuel they use? Rilee’s friend Eco runs on synthetic fuel, which is much better for the planet. This is how it’s made.
We launched Bridge Classic Cars Kids just over a year ago with the aim of using storytelling, classic cars, and sustainability to inspire children to fall in love with our history as much as we have. With our debut story, “The Story of Rilee“, coming out very soon, it is an extremely exciting time for […]
Tonight is a very special one for us, as Craig and Gordon are at the RAC Historic Motoring Awards, as Bridge Classic Cars Kids has been named one of just three finalists in the Innovation category. Our kids project started with the goal of inspiring the next generation of car lovers, so being recognised in […]
The brand-new Hot Wheels Formula 1 Grand Prix Race Circuit is one of the 15 most-wanted toys for 2025, according to the official DreamToys list The track lets you toy versions of real Formula 1 cars around at high speeds and they can even overtake each other. twisting, turning track. There’s also a lap counter […]
In the reception area of the main entrance to Addenbrooke’s Hospital is a huge pillar. On that pillar is some amazing facts on the hospital. These fun facts show just how important and special our medical staff are: Walking from one end of the hospital to the other would be like walking over 1000 steps. […]
Salford City Council has started using one of the UK’s very first all-electric bin lorries in the form of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic. It weighs 27 tonnes, can empty 1200 bins a day, and is 100% electric! Mercedes-Benz eEconic Drivers Like It “My biggest worry was whether it would complete the route, but on my longest […]