Mr Benn [the film] happen, because Mr Benn's a big boy and he can live his own life. I think he's right for being developed on the big screen". Mr Benn lives in London at 52 Festive Road, which was inspired by Festing Road in Putney where David McKee used to live. McKee had the house "next door" at 54 Festing Road, where residents installed an engraved paving slab in his honour on 26 November 2009. ("I think it was because in the first book I drew myself looking out of the window, and I thought it would be quite nice to
Green Man, Putney highwayman Jerry Abershawe was based there, and after he was hanged on 3 August 1795 on Kennington Common, his corpse was gibbeted (displayed on a gallows) outside the pub, the last hanged highwayman's body to be so exhibited. Nearby Tibbet's Corner is thought to be a corruption of the word gibbet. The once common pub game, ringing the bull, was still played at the pub in 1998. The pub is now inside the Putney Heath Conservation Area. "Green Man, Putney Heath" is used as the name of the final destination (terminus) for several London bus routes: 14, 37, 85 ,170,