Bagpuss
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Horrabridge, the Bridge 1898
Ref: 42244
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Bagpuss
A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a reply from Mrs Joan Firmin giving an account of how the picture used came from an old postacrd album which now belonged to her.
The wheelwrights yard is shown on the left and the view is looking south to Station Road taken from the north side of the bridge. This scene has changed little in the last 100 years and is still recognisable today.
Shared on 28 January 2007
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RE: Bagpuss
I was born in Tavistock in 1956. We moved to Horrabridge when I was five, I lived there until I married in 1973. I have many memories of walking along the bridge holding my mother's hand, often we would slide down the weir in the summer. There is a walk through the park along side of the river to Fillace Park where we lived. I often watched the local football team play there of a Saturday. I have fond memories of walking to the bakers on a Saturday morning with my sister to buy the family loaf of fresh bread and picking off the crust on the way home! I now live in Western Australia, but will always think of Horrabridge as home. I have visited in the last two years and intend on returning this August.
Shared on 07 March 2007
