Without wanting to delve too deeply into the box marked 'British children's TV of the 1960s and 70s nostalgia' today's theme will be well known to those of us who grew up in that period. Trumpton began in 1967 and each episode opened with this...
A lovely little piece of music regardless of the Proustian rush currently hitting home hard, released on the 1971 album Songs From Chigley And Trumpton, music by Freddie Phillips and narration by Brian Cant.
It would be remiss of me to mention Trumpton without posting this 1986 classic, Brian Cant getting named checked as part of the establishment that Nigel Blackwell is hoping the people of Chigley and Trumpton will overthrow- 'We've had Cant conformism since 1966/ And now subversion's in the air in the shape of flying bricks'.
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Ah, Proustian rush is right, but yes it is also a perfectly simple lovely little piece of music in its own right, and Brian Cant's voice (like Bernard Cribbins' and also Oliver Postgate's) is eternally comforting. Much as I love The Trumpton Riots, I don't think of Cant as part of the establishment, he used to have a wicked gleam in his eye on Play Away!
Ah! So long ago in a galaxy far. far away..in the year I was born sigh! I remember watching Trumpton and Chigley as a kid on the standard black and white t.v. as a kid. As for Mr Cant, he definitely could. I loved his acceptance speech on picking up an award for Children's BAFTA T.V. award. to quote "When I was a child I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. When I became a man I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, and they paid me for it...!"
As for those wags from the Wirral, I'm currently a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets.. if only I could find a Millets!
We have a Millets quite near us, just down the road in Altrincham. I'm sure they won't mind a bit of going mad in there if you ask nicely.
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