Category: Children of the 80s

70 years of Thomas In 1942, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry made a toy train as a Christmas present for his two year old son, Christopher. Christopher asked his father to make up stories about the train. When his father did so, he could not have imagined how these simple tales would fire the imagination of … Read more »

Cockleshell Bay was a stop-motion animated series running from 1980 to 1986. It originated in the childrens tv series ‘Rainbow’ and then went solo. It was made by Cosgrove Hall films who also made other favourite shows of that era like Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, and The Wind in the Willows and was voiced and written … Read more »