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	Jedi's Paradise - Childrens TV - Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
		After this, Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate arrived where all the Merchandise was being sold, and an impromptu signing began, which they were both happy to do (and I luckily had my copy of The Pogles signed by both of them).
		Peter told everyone that it was made out of corrugated cardboard and wood, with heavy duty papier-mâché and that there was nowhere to keep all the things, so it was left outside and it gradually disintegrated.
		Peter then asked his wife to stand up in the audience, but she was too shy and stayed sitting.
	www.jedisparadise.co.uk /childrenstv/Peter_and_Oliver/Peter_Firmin_and_Oliver_Postgate.htm (1708 words)

	Oliver Postgate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pogle's Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1970s.
		His father was Raymond Postgate and his mother Daisy Lansbury, making him the grandson of Labour politician, George Lansbury; some of whose principles he inherited, to the extent that he was prepared to go to prison as a conscientious objector during World War II.
		Subsequently he did a number of different jobs, never really finding his niche until he entered into a collaboration with Firmin, who built most of the models used in the various animations.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Oliver_Postgate (416 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Seeing Things: An Autobiography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With artist Peter Firmin, and working from a disused cow byre in Canterbury utilising anything that came to hand, they created a dozen or so worlds that have never gone away, from Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine to The Clangers (created and screened originally at the time of the Apollo moonshot).
		Festooned with Peter Firmin's wonderful illustrations, and interrupted only by two selections of personal photographs, this is the life and works of the creator of Small Films, in his own, touching words.
		His ideas, his words, and Peter Firmin's beautifully-drawn backgrounds were just the ticket, in fact, and it wasn't long before he was able to escape and set himself up as a single-frame animator.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330390007 (1682 words)

	Firmin Swinnen
		The name Firmin Swinnen may not have a high recognition factor today, but from 1914 until the mid 1950s he was a celebrity organist, first in Britain then in the United States.
		Firmin Swinnen was born in Scherpenheuvel, Belgium, on November 12, 1885.
		Swinnen's published compositions (all currently out of print) include 8 original pieces for solo organ; 12 transcriptions and 25 untitled mood-setting pieces of "photo-play music," as it was then called, for use by theatre organists; the pedal cadenza for the first movement of Widor's Fifth Organ Symphony; 16 Flemish lieder; and 10 anthems in English.
	www.longwoodgardens.org /Organ/Swinnen.htm (1972 words)

	Bagpuss: the story of Bagpuss, Emily, Professor Yaffle, the Mice, Gabriel and Madeleine
		Bagpuss was devised and created by the brilliant minds of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, who also created Noggin The Nog, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Pogle's Wood.
		Peter Firmin said: “I created the visual character of Bagpuss after I had the idea of a cat with visible thoughts, but it was Oliver who breathed life into the creation by supplying his thoughts and voice”.
		Emily Firmin said: “The magic of Bagpuss was that children want to be like Emily and live in a world surrounded by puppets rather than adults”.
	www.bagpussshop.co.uk /bagpuss-story.html (392 words)

	Bagpuss - Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Firmin ordered some marmalade-cat coloured fabric to make him from, but when it arrived, it was pink not ginger.
		She is Emily Firmin, who is Peter Firmin's daughter, and now in her late thirties.
		I can now confirm that Bagpuss and all his friends are safe in the hands of their creator, Peter Firmin, on the farm where he lives.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /stephenbalchin/bagfaq.html (2845 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Emily's Bagpuss comes of age
		Illustrator Mr Firmin has a simple theory, believing that Bagpuss's unusual appearance is a big part of his success.
		Mr Firmin trained at Central Saint Martin's College in London and worked in a stain glass studio before he was approached by Mr Postgate after going freelance.
		Two of Mr Firmin's grandchildren, Gabriel, five, and Rowan, seven, are non-plussed by their grandfather's invention.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3307279.stm (849 words)

	gadget-girl!:: August 28, 2001 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She apparently explained this theory to Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate once, and she said they seemed bemused by it.
		Or perhaps they were just trying to recall the telephone number of the local asylum in order to have her carted off.
		Smallfilms (Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin) shows came up time after time, which is just as it should be.
	gadget-girl.co.uk /blog/archives/2001_08_28.html (412 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, the creators of the BBC character, have donated part of the profits from clothes, key rings, hot-water bottles and cuddly toys to help fund a children’s hospice in Romania.
		Originally shown in 1974 as part of the Watch With Mother series, the show became a mainstay of the BBC schedule until 1987, with episodes on air 26 weeks a year, and cementing the characters into the minds of several generations.
		Peter and I are truly astonished that the programme should be so deeply ingrained into the memories of so many people.
	www.sundayherald.com /print38982 (654 words)

	News Wales > Culture > Ivor The Engine puffs his way back to Wales
		Ivor's original creators, Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, have teamed up with BBC Wales' promotions team to make three new short films which will be used to plug the digital channel BBC 2W.
		The last new Ivor programmes were made almost 30 years ago when the original fl-and-white animations, some dating back to 1959, were remade in colour for the BBC in 1975.
		Though Peter Firmin's original animation used what Moss describes as "Meccano and elastic bands", the new versions, using Firmin's illustrations, will be animated by computer.
	www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Culture&F=1&id=6877 (302 words)

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		Cresswell, Helen, 1936- Polly thumb / Helan Cresswell ; illustrated by Peter Kavanagh.
		Hill, Douglas Arthur, 1935- The voyage of Mudjack / Douglas Hill ; illustrated by Anthony Lewis.
		Uncle Harold and the green hat / written by Judy Hindley ; illustrated by Peter Utton.
	livonia.lib.mi.us /children/hpmagic.html (1797 words)

	Fraser's Autographs - Autograph Gallery
		Signed below the sketch in fl by Peter Firmin who together with Oliver Postgate ran the Smallfilms studio from Firmin's eighteenth-century farmhouse.
		Signed below the sketch in blue and fl inks by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin who together ran the Smallfilms studio from Firmin's eighteenth-century farmhouse.
		Clearly signed below by Peter Firmin, the artist who, together with Oliver Postgate, ran the Smallfilms studio from Firmin's eighteenth-century farmhouse.
	www.frasersautographs.com /gallery.asp?fStockCode=56199 (1188 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Little Red Riding Hood holding a bunch of daffodils and bluebells and two red squirrels playing on a log in the foreground, with a path leading to grandma's cottage in the background......
		A fine watercolour by Peter Firmin, the original animator of the cult TV classic Bagpuss.
		All Original Artwork sold by Peter Harrington Antiquarian Books is guaranteed to be genuine and authentic.
	www.peter-harrington-books.com /phbooks/bookstore.nsf/Artwork_W (2425 words)

	Linley Hooper's family history - Person Page 35
		Ann Firmin married Peter Cocksedge, son of Peter Cocksedge and Elizabeth Ball or Balls, in 1738, Lackford, Suffolk.
		Alexander Peter Forbes was born in 1872, Dunolly, Victoria, Australia.
		Donald Horn Forbes married Margaret Ann MacPherson, daughter of Peter MacPherson and Ann Murray, in 1870, Victoria, Australia.
	users.bigpond.net.au /linleymh/linley-p/p35.htm (1774 words)

	Latest news: Bagpuss extends a friendly paw to the National Asthma Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The National Asthma Campaign is currently funding research into a "cat vaccine", which may improve the lives of the many thousands of people with asthma in the UK whose asthma symptoms are triggered by exposure to cats.
		Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin and the Big Badge Company have generously provided the rights to the Bagpuss image to help the National Asthma Campaign raise funds for the "cat vaccine" research project.
		Speaking at the launch of the partnership today, at Halifax’s High Street Kensington Branch in London, Lisa Madden, from the bank's Community Relations programme, said "Halifax has been a long term supporter of the National Asthma Campaign and we are delighted to be supporting this year's badge appeal".
	www.asthma.org.uk /news/press66.php (406 words)

	Children's Museum Opens In Canterbury - Home of Rupert Bear - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		It's not just about bears - Bagpuss creators Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate both live locally, and their characters can also be found here.
		Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, both of whom live locally, created Bagpuss and a range of other characters.
		The museum is showing the original sets made by Peter for the 1970s television series, complete with the front of widow of Emily’s shop where Bagpuss and his friends came to life for generations of children’s TV audiences.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART16096.html (573 words)

	Jedi's Paradise - Childrens TV - Bagpuss
		In 1974 Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin conjured up another piece of Childrens TV Magic - Bagpuss.
		Emily was played by Peter Firmin's Daughter, strangely called Emily (must have been hard to think up that name!).
		On September 30th 2001 the creators of Bagpuss - Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate talked about another of their creations - 'The Pogles'.
	www.jedisparadise.co.uk /childrenstv/Bagpuss/Bagpuss.htm (906 words)

	Toon News - Oliver Postgate's Noggin The Nog
		Working from a converted pig-sty on a farm near Canterbury, England, Oliver and Peter created their simple, whimsical animations.
		Having started making films with Peter Firmin in the late fifties, his is an insider's view of the hi
		In each saga Nogbad pursues his plot to the very brink of success, but at the last moment his purposes are foiled by some unexpected piece of luck, cleverness or lack of attention on the part of the Nogs.
	www.toontalents.com /toonnewsoliverpostgate.htm (1157 words)

	Oliver Postgate: Creator of Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine
		So we, the inhabitants of his films, lovingly put together with paint and paper, glue, Meccano and used yogurt pots by our creator, Peter Firmin, hereby claim unequivocal and absolute existence and invite you to enjoy the glory of that fact.
		This elusive family of penguin-type persons were knitted by Peter's sister Gloria and in the early 1960s inhabited the unused corners of Peter and Joan Firmin's barn.
		Among a multitude of incongruous activities, he and his partner Naomi wrote and painted a Bayeux-tapestry type illumination of the life and death of Thomas Becket, one of Christopher Columbus, and a vast mural of a scurrilous history of Canterbury, as well as a detective novel which nobody would publish.
	www.oliverpostgate.co.uk /intro.html (1008 words)

	Shooting People : Filmmakers profile - Doug Haywood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate talk and screening at NFT - Bagpuss, Noggin and Ivor fans take note - 8/11/2004
		Peter and Oliver will be looking in some depth about how they made
		Firmin and Oliver Postgate masters of the art of television story-
	shootingpeople.org /home/viewcard.php?act=act&card=7553&message=144465 (191 words)

	Paintbox - Issue Eight - Stop! Look! List! 14 Inexplicable Vaguely Television-Related Causes Of Childhood Terror
		In any case, the effects abated once The Goodies dressed it up in a pair of C. Clarke-style NHS specs.
		A chillingly realistic puppet, strangely reminiscent of a starved Robin Askwith, Gepetto's finest creation inevitably caused much distress among the nation's toddlers when it ambled across the screen in the late 1970s, most disturbingly when it appeared on "Blue Peter" and 'talked' to the presenters.
		From an adult point of view, though, the only frightening thing about the serial is the abominable use of special effects.
	www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk /stoplooklisteight.htm (781 words)

	Smallfilms -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Smallfilms was a partnership between (Click link for more info and facts about Oliver Postgate) Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Firmin) Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator).
		As Smallfilms they made a number of classic British animated children's television programmes, including:
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Big Cartoon DataBase) Big Cartoon DataBase entry for
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sm/smallfilms.htm (135 words)

	Quiz Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What did Peter Firmin see that inspired him to create Noggin the Nog?
		In what year did Peter Firmin put pen to paper to create the first saga of Noggin the Nog?
		The Moon Mouse, in the story of the same title, which gave birth (metaphorically speaking) to the Clangers.
	freespace.virgin.net /neil.j/quiz_answers.htm (322 words)

	"Bagpuss" (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plot Summary: A melancholic children's animation from the 'Smallfilms' team of Postgate and Firmin.
		Bagpuss, The Clangers, Noggin The Nog and Ivor The Engine worked because of an immense investment of imagination from creators Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		Their work was truly magical - a blessing that today's TV seems to lack.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0070970 (250 words)

	Encyclopedia: November 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Clangers is a gentle, British stop motion animated childrens television series made by Smallfilms who were Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator).
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/November-16 (8428 words)

	Television Heaven
		Devised and presented by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Fimin, this is the story of Ivor, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
		The story of two friends written and performed by Ivan Owen and Peter Firmin.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /smalltime2.htm (1451 words)

	Babette Cole - Children's author
		By making friends with Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate who were involved in Children's T.V. "What sort of paints do you use?"....
		It's a mixture of water colour die, pastel, pencil, crayon dash, and oil pastel.
		At first working with Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for Children's T.V. and then making sure I was published by the best publishers there were for children's books.
	www.babette-cole.com /faq.html (1220 words)

	Peter Firmin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Firmin was born in Harwich and studied at the Colchester school of Art.
		He has worked with writer Oliver Postgate for a number of years, collaborating on both Bagpuss and Basil Brush.
		signed by Peter Firmin (artist) and Oliver Postgate (the author of the Bagpuss books and television series)
	www.slybrownfox.com /peterfirmin.htm (76 words)

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