Eccles (character) Eccles: "He was living proof that the Piltdown Skull was not a hoax." The Eccles character and his distinctive voicing were strongly influenced by Milligan's childhood love for the classic Walt Disney cartoons and specifically Disney's anthropomorphic buffoon dog character Goofy. However Eccles transcended the denseness of Goofy, being instead more like a young adult with childlike impulses, which may explain his friendship with Bluebottle. His special talent is for taking things he hears literally, with humorous and occasionally insightful results. Thus: and in the same conversation (from "The Last Goon Show of All"): During an arctic expedition in "Scradge":
Eccles (UK Parliament constituency) part of the parish of Pendlebury not in the Parliamentary Borough of Salford. The Representation of the People Act 1918 redrew all constituencies in Great Britain. The Parliamentary Borough of Eccles consisted of two local government districts: the Municipal Borough of Eccles and the Urban District of Swinton and Pendlebury (later incorporated as a borough). The seat was renamed Eccles Borough Constituency by the Representation of the People Act 1948. In 1983 constituency boundaries were altered to align with the new administrative geography introduced by the Local Government Act 1972. Eccles became a borough constituency in the parliamentary county of