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
East Putney tube station merging with the tracks at Point Pleasant junction to the east of Putney Bridge Road (A3209). This link is no longer used and connections are made by the former westbound branch track which operates as a single line. The main deck of the disused viaduct has been removed although the central piers and the abutments of the viaduct remain. London Buses routes 37 and 337 serve the station. East Putney was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line (now Crossrail 2). It was envisaged that the station's District line service would have been replaced by the new line. East Putney