2017 deaths and climbing

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

John Noakes!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/29/blue-peter-presenter-john-noakes-dies-at83/

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Down Shep, Down .

[fsn]

Truly a black day for anyone who was a Blue Peter fan!

[Techno]

Good grief.

I met him when he wandered into the sports shop I was working in, after leaving school......Early seventies ?

"You haven't got a ciggy, have you ?" , said he.

(I didn't smoke in those days....that was to come.....and go.....But it ruined an illusion.....John Noakes ?.....A smoker ?   )

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Oh my Lord ! Just heard the news on the radio . So many happy memories of, to my mind, the classic Blue Peter line up of John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves.

[Poggle]

So sad to learn of John Noakes' passing. I was thinking of him the other day, remembering the classic Blue Peter days and wondering how he was doing. 😔

[Techno]

Saw that clip on the news last night of him climbing 'Nelson's column'. (Which I'd forgotten about.)
Made me wince....He didn't appear to have a safety harness on. 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

The man was my hero.

Much better than that stuck up Mr La-di-da Peter Purves.

I don't think he did have safety harness on when he was up Nelson's Column.

I remember him doing the jump with the Red Devils.

And the bobsleigh.

And the elephant.

Like I say, he was my hero.

[Steve J]

Didn't he also climb a ships mast right to the top to be the 'button boy', if that's the correct terminology?

[DanJ]

Another childhood hero passes.

I don't think he did have safety harness on when he was up Nelson's Column

No, classis Blue Peter was filmed in the olden days before Health and Safety was invented.

[Techno]

EEEEEK !!!



Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

Peter Sallis.

(Just been announced on the radio, though there doesn't seem to be any confirmation on the net, yet.)

Cheers - Phil.

[skywalker]

Oh Wallace has gone to meet his maker 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]