The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968 after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common" on a family walk, became a fixture of British childhood through the BBC stop-motion series of the early 1970s. Guernsey has issued licensed commemorative fifty-pence pieces regularly since the 1990s, using the crown dependency's minting authority to produce collectibles that circulate legally but are overwhelmingly purchased by collectors rather than spent. Great Uncle Bulgaria is the white-haired elder of the Womble clan, established in the original novels as having been born in 1895.
The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968 after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common" on a family walk, became a fixture of British childhood through the BBC stop-motion series of the early 1970s. Guernsey has issued licensed commemorative fifty-pence pieces regularly since the 1990s, using the crown dependency's minting authority to produce collectibles that circulate legally but are overwhelmingly purchased by collectors rather than spent. Great Uncle Bulgaria is the white-haired elder of the Womble clan, established in the original novels as having been born in 1895.