Life's a Cavalcade

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He came up to Scotland from Torquay for one week's variety in 1953 — and stayed in Scotland ever since.

Glen spent an itinerant childhood as his parents gave up the boarding house they ran in Devon and entered domestic service. When Jack Milroy moved to England around the end of the 1960s, Michael initially felt isolated, but in the end made four times as much money from his increased television work. He greets me from the door of the modest, unassuming cottage in which he lives with his wife Beryl, in the small Ayrshire village of Maidens. I still see them today and they are all grey-haired, little, old people and they say, "I used to watch you when I was five! I didn't like to get strange kids so I would get the family on and it worked very well, you know, yeah, great!But he has also done broadcasting, he is keen to remind me, including six and a half years, every Thursday night, on Radio Clyde.

Then David Johnston and then we had, well, I forget the other ones, there was the one who went to London, I can't remember his name. For some unknown reason the boom seemed to have a feeling that I can move anywhere, do anything, this thing round my neck curtailed me and, funny, I wouldn't go forward!The British Entertainment History Project, 2016 | A non-profit voluntary organisation | Company Limited by Guarantee - No. I: You don't think for one second that the kids at home watching were enjoying the magic because you find it magic? He quickly changed his name from Cecil Buckland because it wouldn't have looked right on the billboards.