During the early days, he used to unload mail from the mail boat into Thomas and Percy's mail vans, for them to deliver all over the island. Big Mickey is the third character to have been given a face after debuting without one, the first two being Butch and Henrietta. The views I've got now is, I believe in individualism and I don't care if anyone's black, Jewish or anything," he added. As you might expect, the language, the sentences, and the ideas are all exciting and vividly rendered with an intense musicality.

Others found that, in an era when all gay men were widely assumed to be camp and effeminate, "you were less likely to get picked on if you looked like a queer-basher". In 1993, Crane was dead, Donaldson died in a car crash and the British National Party (BNP) won its first council seat in Millwall, east London.

faceless, cameo), Henry's Happy Coal ( faceless, cameo), Surprise, Surprise ( faceless, cameo), Stop That Bus!

Since the television series switched from live-action to CGI, Big Mickey's model was left in the hands of HiT Entertainment/Mattel Creations. Series 12 - Steady Eddie ( faceless, cameo), Rosie's Funfair Special ( faceless, cameo), Henry Gets it Wrong ( faceless, cameo) Heave Ho Thomas! After their intended victims fled inside, the skinheads drilled by Crane began smashing the cinema's doors and windows, the court was told.

According to feminist scholar Sheila Jeffreys' book The Lesbian Heresy, a commotion unfolded in 1984 when a group of gay skinheads turned up at a gay bar in London's King's Cross and began sieg heiling. Two decades after Crane's death, says Healy, the skinhead is "recognised as a gay man unambiguously in London and Manchester". The album was "hastily withdrawn" by Decca Records when Crane's identity and previous convictions were made public, and has since become very collectable.