The glass animal man

[Fef]

He used to have a kiosk on the right hand side at the bottom of the steps at the aquarium before moving to Queens Road. Yes, hours of free entertainment. I remember him being on What's My Line with Eamon Andrews.

When I was a young lad, my Mum and Dad took me to see that programme being made at the BBC Theatre in Shepherds Bush. He beat the panel.

 

[drew]

Wasn't the name Geobright or something similar?

 

[Hastings gull]

Used to watch him as well ... used to go to the stamp shop next door I think

Brings back happy memories. Yes, always stopped there to watch. My immediate gut reaction was like others -that chap is too young. There were two stamp shops in Queens Road, as I recall.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

How weird, only this week I walked past where his shop was and thought about all those times I watched him through the window. Sadly it's now a supermarket.

 

[Dick Head]

Doesn't look like the man I remember from the 60s. Ah well.

 

[desprateseagull]

there's more info about him on the mybrighton site..

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/searchgoogle.aspx?q=glass animal man

 

[severnside gull]

there's more info about him on the mybrighton site..

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/searchgoogle.aspx?q=glass animal man

Thanks for that
Found a nice article on there about my grandfather, Ernie Johnstone's Miniature Coaches, and hopefully will be able to get in touch with family I haven't seen for the better part of half a century!

 

[Questions]

Crikey, I used to watch him for hours on our big day trips to Brighton with my old mum as a kid from far away Worthing. That and a hot dog down by the pier and then the 31 bus home from Pool Valley. Such vivid memories that brings back.

 

[GT49er]

Ernie Johnstone's Miniature Coaches

Blimey, I remember them! Any of them still around and working?

 

[symyjym]

Thanks for that
Found a nice article on there about my grandfather, Ernie Johnstone's Miniature Coaches, and hopefully will be able to get in touch with family I haven't seen for the better part of half a century!

In Brighton, East Sussex, we see a 4-year-old boy called Ernest Johnstone getting into the tiny, one-man bus his father has made for him.

(middle part of video)

 

[severnside gull]

In Brighton, East Sussex, we see a 4-year-old boy called Ernest Johnstone getting into the tiny, one-man bus his father has made for him.

(middle part of video)

Thankyou so much! Never seen that newsreel. If my uncle Ernie was 4 that must be about 1932. My grandad gave up busdriving in '36 and set up the mini coaches at Peter Pans.

 

[symyjym]

Thankyou so much! Never seen that newsreel. If my uncle Ernie was 4 that must be about 1932. My grandad gave up busdriving in '36 and set up the mini coaches at Peter Pans.

No probs, I always find it interesting when bits of local history and knowledge come up on NSC. Great miniature vehicles.

I hope your uncle isn't the NSC Ernest

 

[Hamilton]

What a trip down memory lane the glass animal man was.

Like many, I thought he was older, but I guess I was a lot younger. Christ on a bike he looks my age. Is how I'm seen by 8 year olds the way I saw him? If so, I've only a few years to live!

 

[Return of the Rev]

I think his daughter lived in Haywards Heath!

Recall drinking gin and orange round her house back in the day!