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Macro Mondays 'label' theme.
This image shows part of the label on my bobble hat, bought from Countryfile to support the Children in Need charity. Pudsey is a very well known bear in the UK!
This image measures a little over 2" in width
Pudsey Bear is the well-known, official mascot of the BBC charity, Children in Need and the BBC have an annual telethon in their efforts to raise money for it, accompanied by a host of celebrities who feature in sketches, comedy routines, challenges and music performances.
The charity uses all donations in improving the lives of disadvantaged children and young people throughout the U.K. and some of these feature in the programme to recount how their lives have been helped and supported by the charity.
The BBC's first broadcast appeal for children took place in 1927, in the form of a five-minute radio broadcast on Christmas Day. The first televised appeal took place in 1955 and was called the Children's Hour Christmas Appeal.
Pudsey Bear appeared in 1985, and instantly transformed the Children in Need brand. He was created by BBC designer Joanna Ball, and took his name from her home town in Yorkshire. It has never been released why he wears an eyepatch.
Couldn't resist a quick stop off on route to The Open at Hoylake . I could watch these beautiful birds of prey all day .
Pudsey Bear statue - Salford Quays
I like the little bench, too.
Pudsey is the mascot of the BBC's Children in Need which has apparently raised over one billion pounds in charity donations over the years since it was first set up in 1980.
I read somewhere that the bear was named after the home town of the person who designed it- Pudsey in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter was filmed here in Salford's Media City UK for a while but has moved into central Manchester now, apparently.
I was having a wander with my friend John after we had been in Manchester for the afternoon and we always gaze in wonder at the stuff in and around Salford Quays now - its amazing. We both remember how run down and derelict "the docks" were.
A stormy Friday night Train vs Traffic race out of Leeds towards Pudsey, apologies for using a location only uploaded a few weeks ago, but on my way home from work, the rain had stopped the dusk sky looked threatening and I couldn't resist another go from this spot.
150225 is tackling the 1:50 climb from Leeds up towards Armley and is about to pass under the traffic on Tong Road with the 1D95 17:36 Leeds - Manchester Victoria, via Bradford and the Calder Valley.
Friday 8th March 2019.
Week 46 in 52 Weeks for Dogs. Tonight is the annual tv fundraiser for the Children in Need charity and here is Tasku impersonating (under protest) the charity's well known mascot, Pudsey Bear. The charity has raised over £1 billion to help children's charities since its first fundraiser in 1980.
This "Pudsey" doesn't involve a cute yellow bear!
On the lookout for Mythical Treacle Mines and Ducks Flying Backward,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining
I noticed this instead!
Some of the contemporary decorations were not to be sniffed at either..........literally (-0
37425 'Concrete Bob' stands in New Pudsey station, undergoing a driver change, whilst working the West Yorkshire RHTT circuit throughout the night. 01.12.2022.
A Class 31 on the morning Kings Cross - Bradford Interchange which it has taken over at Leeds, approaching Duckett's Crossing. December 1974.