A recent article in the Daily Express, which featured an interview with Rolf Harris, mentioned the famous Hamster invasion of Burnt Oak. The story made national news with ITN covering the story. Sightseers came from far and wide. Some of them with ill intent. One came armed with an airgun and accidentally shot Burnt Oak Labour Councillor Jim Brophy (which made me reflect on the possibility of letting a few Hamsters loose in Totteridge). Enjoy
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/08/26/AS260882001/
If you look rather carefully, you can see Rog T go past in the background.
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/08/26/AS260882001/
If you look rather carefully, you can see Rog T go past in the background.
2 comments:
Our Town Hall is full of them!
I remember that. The TV six o'clock show filmed us over the allotments in Burnt Oak hunting for hamsters. I had a cartoon published in the local paper depicting Brophy in the pub drinking with hamsters coming after him. any one remember?
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