Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin; Children's TV favourites set to go on display at North museum.Byline: Neil McKay THEY were a part of our childhood. In the days of grainy black and white Watch with Mother was a daily treat for pre-school age children featuring Andy Pandy on Tuesday, Bill and Ben on Wednesday, Rag Tag and Bobtail bobtail a short tail, either natural or docked. Seen naturally in some species, e.g. bobcat, and some dog breeds, e.g. Schipperke and Old English sheepdog. bobtail disease on Thursday and The Woodentops on Friday. Soon visitors to a North museum will be able to wallow wallow mud bath frequented by pigs, elephants, red deer, hippopotami as a cooling aid. in nostalgia for those faraway days. Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, is hosting the exhibition, Toy Tales, celebrating 60 years of BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. children's television, from Pinky and Perky Pinky and Perky was a children's television series first seen on the BBC in 1957. The title characters were a pair of puppet anthropomorphic pigs with very limited movements created by Czechoslovakian immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor. to Postman Pat, The Flowerpot Men to the Teletubbies. Lisa Jeffries, the museum's head of education and workforce development, said: "Whether you're two or seventy-two, there's bound to be a favourite among the wide range of puppets, props and stage sets on show, which fires the imagination. "Younger audiences are sure to have fun comparing the baby boomers' preferences from yesteryear - with their shaky sets and visible puppet strings - to their modern counterparts reinvented for today's generation. "Their mums, dads and grandparents can reminisce about memories of grainy black and white TV images of for puppets such as Muffin the Mule and Pinky and Perky, compared to the hi-definition colour of today's favourites like Charlie and Lola and 64 Zoo Lane." "Other favourites which feature in the display are Paddington Bear, with his luggage label and his marmalade sandwiches, Sooty and Sweep, Basil Brush, The Magic Roundabout, and current favourite In the Night Garden." All these and more are represented in various forms, including puppets, videos, original scripts, story boards, props and drawings. The exhibition will also pay tribute to the animator, puppeteer and author Oliver Postgate, who died in December 2008. Postgate, together with Peter Firmin, set up the company Smallfilms in a disused cowshed at Firmin's home in Kent, producing animated footage on a shoestring budget to great acclaim. Their successes include Bagpuss, which was once voted the most popular children's TV programme of all time. Peter Firmin is lending the museum his collection of The Clangers, Ivor the Engine Ivor the Engine was a children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It was a children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive who lived in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and worked for the Merioneth and and Noggin the Nog Noggin the Nog was a popular British children's television series originally shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom during the years 1959 to 1965. Thirty-six programmes were made, originally in black and white, and running for ten minutes long, by a company called , for this unique exhibition. Artist Linda Birch, whose popular painting workshops at the museum always have a waiting list, is loaning some original Bagpuss storyboards relating to her time as an illustrator of the famous feline. Toy Tales opens on Saturday, May 1 for six months. Visitors will also be able to view the Museum's new Silver and Metals Gallery, which is due to open on Good Friday, and to enjoy the ambience and menu of the revamped Cafe Bowes which, along with the enhanced Gift Shop, is now open to the public. The Bowes Museum, Cafe Bowes and Shop are open daily from 10am. A full programme of events and exhibitions is available by calling 01833 690606 or by viewing the website at www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk. CAPTION(S): VENUE The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham. |
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