The Big Breakfast known as 'The Cottage'. After renovation following a fire, it has also been used for a number of television shows. Mark Lamarr, Keith Chegwin, Paul Ross, Richard Orford, Richard Bacon and Mike McClean were "down your doorstep" outside broadcasters, often turning up live and unannounced at an unsuspecting viewer's house, while rooms within the Lock Keeper's Cottages featured the puppets Zig and Zag and video games guru Ben the Boffin. The show's style, with hand-held cameras moving around all of the set, meant that many of the crew members could be seen on screen. This led to them getting nicknames,
The Puppets Conrad, Crispian St. Peters, Billy Fury and Millie. https://fandalism.com/desdinga The Puppets The Puppets were an English pop/beat group from Preston, Lancashire, that were managed and recorded by Joe Meek. They were active from 1962 to 1967. Drummer Des O'Reilly had been in The Rebels. He was then in Bob Johnson and the Bobcats (1960 - 1962), who included Jim Whittle on bass and Dave Millen on guitar. O'Reilly then formed The Puppets (1962 - 1967), with Millen and Whittle and later in 1965 Don Parfitt. The Puppets backed artists such as Brenda Lee, The Ronettes, Dee Dee Sharp, Gene Vincent,