Toytown Tin Soldiers" by Leon Jessel. The first radio performances were as follows: A puppet show called "Stories from Toytown Featuring Larry the Lamb" was first broadcast on ITV between 1972 and 1974. Twenty-six of Hulme Beaman's stories were adapted for television by his friend Hendrik Baker. The Noddy stories, written from 1949 to 1963 for children by author Enid Blyton, take place in a location called Toyland. Toytown Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for "Children's Hour" on the Home Service. The plays were based on a set of puppets created by S. G. Hulme Beaman, who
Grey noddy Grey noddy The grey noddy or grey ternlet ("Anous albivitta") is a seabird belonging to the family Laridae. It was once regarded as a pale morph of the blue noddy ("Anous cerulea") but is now usually considered to be a separate species. The first formal description of the grey noddy was by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856 under the binomial name "Procelsterna albivitta". The specific name "albivitta" is from the Latin "abus" for "white" and "vitta" for "band" or "head-band". The grey noddy was formerly placed in the genus "Procelsterna". A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2016