Gus Honeybun... Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating: A Love Affair in the Lower Leagues

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Both puppets, along with a large collection of film and tape assets, were transferred to the South West Film and Television Archive (now part of The Box) from TSW when it lost the franchise in 1992. Nowadays, whether you’re in St Austell or Skegness, Widdecombe on the Moor or Wolverhampton , what you see on ITV is pretty much the same. That wasn't the case during the days of Regional ITV. Every region was run by it's own company so if you were Yorkshire on holiday you'd see the famous chevron ident, in Wales the aerial that spelt HTV or the Thames and LWT logos in London. Gus Honeybun attracted a cult following and it was not unknown for adults to write in requesting "bunny hops" etc. 12 was the official age limit for having a birthday read out on air, so people of 40 were presented as being 4 and so on. [3] Dr Butler said: "Kids would send in their birthdays and he would read them out. He used to press a magic button too, and that was all totally legit. The bus was a deal with Western National, the local bus operator for Cornwall & Plymouth. They ran minibus routes that were branded as Hoppa, so one bus (Mercedes L608D C990 GCV) was given full Gus Honeybun branding along with the slogan "Hop on a Hoppa with Gus" and used on routes around Plymouth:

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These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Apparently there were all sorts of code words and names, things that signalled different people. It's just a nice little story really to think that it was used in that way. Lots of young people didn't realise that was going on at all." Slightly further down towards the Barbican is a place called the Lion's Den. In the past this was a place for "male bathing" which Dr Butler says was a place for men to meet each other. Don’t worry, this wasn’t childish imagination; it was prime time Westward Television. Gus Honeybun is a Plymothian superstar and the mere mention of his name, whether through the adorable plush teddy we sell in The Box Shop or the children’s train on Plymouth Hoe, makes the young and old curious about this bunny rabbit. But where did he come from?Among these was his former co-presenter, David 'Fitz' Fitzgerald, now a presenter for BBC Radio Devon. A former newsreader from Plymouth’s Westward Television celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary last month. When I put in new plants and things, I come in, and he’s got soil all around his face, but he denies it all.” Roger Ollerearnshaw met Vivianne (nee Linfoot) in 1957 at the weekly Saturday hop at The Winter Gardens, on Penzance Promenade. The aim of National Archive Week is to raise awareness of archives, their value to society and the impact they have every day on individual lives.

Gus Honeybun reveals all about his South West television

I've been to Jersey several times in the past, but Oscar Puffin also remains unfamiliar to me. However this was clearly a momentous meeting and I feel like I've missed out culturally in a sense. It was the day commercial television came to the South West in the form of Westward Television. Television in Devon and Cornwall was still very much in its infancy - BBC South West launched only nine days earlier and televisions were something that many couldn’t yet access or afford. It had been quite a long wait - London had got ITV thanks to Associated-Rediffusion in 1955. April 29, 1961, is a day whose significance many might not remember instantly - but it’s one that saw the start of something that was considered revolutionary in how we viewed television in Devon and Cornwall.Mr Squiggle 1 9 5 9 - 1 9 9 9 (Australia) Pencil-nosed marionette Mr Squiggle has the privilege of being the longest-running…