![]() ![]() ![]() That strange little shop, a long-gone gem somewhere between the central library and the railway station, and its eccentric proprietor went on to inspire David to create the fancy-dress fanatic Mr Benn and his adventures, loved by young readers and TV viewers since the 1960s and ’70s. Read more: Visit Plymouth in the 1950s in 47 incredible photos I can remember trying but never buying anything in there.” ![]() Speaking to the Plymouth Herald back in 2005, he added: “There was a bit of that sort of atmosphere, which affected me. “We used to suspect it was a front for something,” revealed David, who died this week aged 87 following a short illness. ![]() No one ever seemed to buy anything and the owner would be nowhere in sight, until a potential customer was looking around and he would pop out from behind something, as if by magic. It was a secondhand store full of dust and packed with random bits and pieces that looked like they had been there forever. When writer and illustrator David McKee was studying at Plymouth College of Art back in the 1950s, he would pass a curious old shop as he walked to classes each day. ![]()
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