Sad to see another of my heroes has gone… I loved running… but never got to his level…
Did you have any childhood hero… you tried to emulate… ???
Sad to see another of my heroes has gone… I loved running… but never got to his level…
Did you have any childhood hero… you tried to emulate… ???
Dick Barton, Special Agent. (Cue music “Flying Scotsman”…) (Dick who…???)
Dr Who (Tom Baker)
Commander Koneig (Space 1999) ( Martin Landau)
Avon (Blake 7) (Paul Darrow)
Servalan (Blake 7) (Jacqueline Pearce)
So I had a mixed view on good/bad fictional heroes to follow…
Martin
LOL my childhood was long before most of you, I reckon…
A hero I had in childhood though he had been long dead before I was born. Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer and so much more efficient/effective than the much vaunted Scott.
Absolutely… a real hero… going where no man had gone before (long before Star Trek) He was the one to have in your team…
I saw that this morning, and saddened again. So many folk, that had a part in one’s life; even though remotely such as Roger.
Barry John for me. ( some may say who ??? ) since a picture can save a 1000 words…
I’ve been in a pub with a couple of your heroes. I lived in Swanage for a couple of years and at one time they were filming Blake’s 7 in a nearby limestone quarry. The cast used our local in the evenings.
fully agree … a childhood hero has gone… I tried hard to run fast but never got to his level
Brazilian Captain Carlos Alberto…who wouldn’t want to score a goal like that?
David, I’m jealous !!
I sort of knew Blake 7/Doctor Who team used the same quarry.
Before I came to France, I lived in Chesham and with a bit of Serendipity, they had a factory/workshop which supplied the models/makeup for the ‘New’ Doctor Who series.
But wow, jealous!
Martin
C’mon, Stella, spill those past-their-use-by Ministry of Food beans!
We want to know who had your pulse racing yesteryear…
My very earliest childhood heroes were lassie…black beauty…and mozart…I still love Mozart…:)
Earliest heros are all sporting : Jimmy Greaves, Dave Mackay and Garfield Sobers.
Ha ha… .I remember seeing Blue Hawaii … went with a couple of school pals. One of the mums had paid for us to go. She was alarmed to see us weeping copiously when she collected us from the cinema…
“Oh… he is so gorgeous”… was about all she got out of us on the way home…
Barry John but surely also Gareth Edwards and JPR Williams?
Yes JPR, the rock, the brave combatant and fearless. Gareth Edwards, a magician and scorer of arguably the greatest try recorded. Barry John was an artist, and as i played rugby in that position at school, Barry was playing for Wales and the Lions.
Price, Windsor and Faulkner. Don’t forget the donkeys.