Character created by David McKee in the 1967 book Mr Benn - Red Knight. Dressed in black suit and bowler hat he sets out from his house each day to visit a fancy-dress shop where he tries on an outfit, has an adventure and then returns home. He appeared in several children's books and in a 13-part animated BBC series in 1971-2. and now, 2013, tweets @TheRealMrBenn.
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Constance Brown
Killed in the WW2 Balham station bombing whilst using the deep level platforms as a bomb shelter. Aged 14.
War dead non-military, WW2
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Highgate Camp
A youth camp started in the Highgate Congregational Church's Sunday School by two teachers.
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Noel Falconer Filmer
Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 13 December 1897, the seventh of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
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Idris Alfred Newnham
From Ian Wallis's JustGiving page: "It was Idris Newnham, a boy about my age and a family friend, who had a particular type of muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), which is a genetic disorder that causes...
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Sunbeam
Children's comic published by James Henderson and Sons. It featured 'Dr Rhino's Jolly Jungle Boys' and 'Willie And Winnie And Wuffles The Pup'. Originally called 'Sparks' it went through various ch...
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