I've leapt from the Back Entry
Diddlers to a political rant in just a few paragraphs, so let's get back to memories of those bitterly cold winters of yesteryear.
Many readers will have particularly fond memories of his most famous creation, the Back Entry
Diddlers who made their debut in 1934.
It was in this large broadsheet format, the front page was full of adverts and people were roaring with laughter at a cartoon page featuring Curly Wee and Count Gussy Goose, the Back Entry
Diddlers, Muffin the Mule, and some guy called Louie.
CARTOON CAPERS: This picture shows the Backentry
Diddlers. It was sent to us by ECHO reader Alan Smith, who says: "It's 1951 and this ragamuffin group are the Backentry
Diddlers, a Liverpool ECHO cartoon strip at the time, waiting to move off in the Greasby Carnival."
We would revel in the old Echo cartoons like the Back Entry
Diddlers, Rupert the Bear, and Curly Wee and Gussie Goose.
WHEN we did our football "dream team" at work, I called my team The Back Entry
Diddlers after the cartoon strip, that was in the ECHO just after the war.
``The memories: The Back Entry
Diddlers cartoon strip by the brilliant George Greene.
And then there was the legendary ``Back Entry
Diddlers `` a street team of scruffs whose only female supporter carried an umbrella to assault the other team.
I READ every word in the ECHO each night I have done for years, it's the `Scousers delight' Since Curly Wee days and the Back entry
Diddlers To present day news of muggers and fiddlers I start at the sport, while the wife bags the `Crossy' (For she's pretty smart having worked in a `Hossy') Then it's on to Our Willie and his smart-alecdog
