Peter Purves, Valerie Singleton and John Noakes with Indian elephants in 1968, on the BBC Blue Peter TV show.
John Cooper, Is a blue peter the same thing as a spotted dick, or are they different?" Who is "handling" the elephants in this photo? Is it the person barely visible on the left?
Monday, October 12, 2009
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Wade G. Burck
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These elephants belong to Sir Robert Fossett's. The trainer is on the far left. His name was Julius Heine. He had previously worked for Knie and Enis Togni. He was a very good trainer. The act eventually contained 10 elephants, but usually worked as six. This was in the very early days when they had only just got the first three.
- Jim Clubb
The Blue Peter is the name given to the flag traditionally flown on a ship before it sails.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, this elephant dragged John Noakes all over the place, and also "disgraced" itself on the studio floor - during a live broadcast!
I'm very much mistaken! The elephant which disgraced itself live on "Blue Peter" was from a zoo.
Blame my age. It leads me to suffer from seniormomentitis!
John,
I was staying out of it. I just thought you were trying to kick it off with Clubb. LOL
Wade
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