Legoland's annual clean-up – in pictures

Lauren Moss cleans a Lego figure with a cotton wool bud at Legoland. Each September, the resort closes for two days after the summer holidays to get everything spick and span for the autumn Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Moss cleaning figures in the resort's hotel Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Animator Adam Brook gets into the model Thames to carry out repairs to Tower Bridge at Legoland. The model-making team patrol the park making repairs and sprucing up a vast array of models from the very tiny to the extremely large Photograph: Mikael Buck/Mikael Buck

Model maker Chris Convoy cleans the six-metre-high pharaoh in the kingdom of the pharaohs, made of 200,000 bricks Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Kat James repairing the dentures of a Lego shark Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Figures are cleaned with a cotton wool bud Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Landscape technician John Isted trims the plants around the model Gherkin building Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland

Model maker Giorgio Pastero cleans lego blocks with a toothbrush Photograph: Mikael Buck/Mikael Buck

Model maker Paula Laughton dusts the top of the model Big Ben Photograph: Mikael Buck/Mikael Buck

Laughton gives Horse Guards Parade a dusting down Photograph: Mikael Buck/Legoland