Do you remember these road safety films?
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Jimmy Saville "Now then, now then. as it happens" in the seventies, Jimmy Saville persuaded the nation that it was better to "Clunk Click on Every Trip". |
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Green Cross Code Man The super-hero in spandex helped a generation of kids to cross the road safely. Played by Dave (Darth Vader) Prowse. |
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The Green Cross Code Man made a visit to St Augustines CE primary school in Swinton. Can anyone help by telling us in which year he visited? Were you there? Do you recognise anyone in the picture? Are you the little girl being lifted up by 6' 7" Dave Prowse? Do you have any more photos of our Road Safety Hero at any other schools in Salford? Email the Road Safety Unit if you can help. |
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Jon Pertwee The Doctor Who star attempted to re-enforce the Green Cross Code message with his bizarre request for us to "SPLINK". |
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Alvin Stardust The glam rocker told us that we "must be outta our tiny minds" if we forgot to look before we crossed the road. |
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Kevin Keegan In between training sessions for Liverpool and visits to the hairdresser, Kev still found time to get the road safety message across to his legions of fans. |
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Tufty The Tufty club was launched in 1961 and has recently been modernised. Bernard Cribbins narrated the popular 1970's films featuring our road safety squirrel and his naughty friend Willy Weasel. |
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