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Edward George White (21 August 1910 – 1994) was a British composer of light music, [1] whose compositions including "The Runaway Rocking-Horse" (1946), "Paris Interlude" (1952), "Puffin' Billy" (1952) and the signature tune for The Telegoons (1963), became familiar as radio and television theme tunes.
Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, [1] [2] constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom.
The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.
The Killingworth Billy or Billy (not to be confused with Puffing Billy) was built to Stephenson's design at Killingworth Colliery’s workshops. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Previously thought to have been built in 1826, an archeological investigation in 2018 revised its construction date back by a further decade to 1816, making Billy the third-oldest surviving ...
Puffing Billy Tournament, a board game convention focusing on train games; Puffin' Billy, a famous piece of light music by Edward White; Puffing Billy, military jargon for the M67 Immersion Heater; Puffing Billy, a short lived comic strip in The Beano about a fat boy called Billy; Puffing Billy, a vacuum cleaner constructed by Hubert Cecil Booth
English: Side view of "Puffing Billy", the oldest surviving steam locomotive in the UK. Taken at the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, UK. Date: 25 October 2011:
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (also known as Cry of the Penguins) is a 1971 British comedy drama film, directed by Arne Sucksdorff, Alfred Viola and Roy Boulting. It stars John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton and Tony Britton. [3] The screenplay was adapted by playwright Anthony Shaffer, based on the 1965 novel Forbush and the Penguins by ...
It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway. Belgrave (Puffing Billy) is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station, which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne's broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network. The suburban station is accessible via a short ...