The Scottish roots of TV's Mr Benn as bowler hat-wearing icon turns 50
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dailyrecord.co.ukMr Benn was created by David McKee, whose granddad came from Fife and was a dock worker there.His dad used spent his childhood in Scotland too and his family's time here played a large part in the early stories of Mr Benn.David, 86, who now lives in France said of his grandfather: "He came from Dunfermline and worked at Rosyth before he moved south.
My dad spent his youth in Scotland, too."I remember stories of Scotland and, although I didn't use any of them directly, things that happened might have come from them."I wrote a Mr Benn comic strip for a couple of years.
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