Tufty Fluffytail
Sheet Music
1972-75 (published)
1972-75 (published)
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This music sheet features a song about the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents' road safety character Tufty Fluffingtail, and was designed to teach children about the Green Cross Code. Created by Elsie Mills in 1953, Tufty featured in a number of books and safety instructions for the society and in 1961 the Tufty Club was set up as a nationwide network of local groups. At the club meetings, usually once a month, children were told stories, encouraged to join in games, read the Tufty books together and take home the message of road safety. This craft pattern would have been produced to capitalise on the Tufty club phenomenon, which by 1973 had more than 10 000 affiliated clubs and over two million members. This song was sung in the Theydon Bois Tufty Club.
Although Tufty was restylised in 1979, and again in 1993, his presence in RoSPA campaigns has much diminished over the ensuing years. Local Tufty clubs have been wound down and little merchandise is available on their website, but he is still used by the RoSPA in publications and educational packs for schools.
Although Tufty was restylised in 1979, and again in 1993, his presence in RoSPA campaigns has much diminished over the ensuing years. Local Tufty clubs have been wound down and little merchandise is available on their website, but he is still used by the RoSPA in publications and educational packs for schools.
Object details
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| Title | Tufty Fluffytail (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen print on paper |
| Brief description | Sheet music leaflet for a song about the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents character Tufty Fluffytail, published by Novello, 1972-75. |
| Physical description | Leaflet song sheet with blue background on front cover, featuring song title and songwriters information, and an illustration of Tufty Fluffytail. Inside is the piano and vocal score and on the back cover are the actions to be performed while singing the song. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by J M Harvey on behalf of the Theydon Bois Tufty Club |
| Object history | This song sheet was used in meetings by the Theydon Bois Tufty Club. |
| Production | This road safety action song was used in shows by the Keith-Blair Puppets duo, also the composers. |
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| Literary reference | Tufty Fluffytail by Elsie Mills MBE |
| Summary | This music sheet features a song about the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents' road safety character Tufty Fluffingtail, and was designed to teach children about the Green Cross Code. Created by Elsie Mills in 1953, Tufty featured in a number of books and safety instructions for the society and in 1961 the Tufty Club was set up as a nationwide network of local groups. At the club meetings, usually once a month, children were told stories, encouraged to join in games, read the Tufty books together and take home the message of road safety. This craft pattern would have been produced to capitalise on the Tufty club phenomenon, which by 1973 had more than 10 000 affiliated clubs and over two million members. This song was sung in the Theydon Bois Tufty Club. Although Tufty was restylised in 1979, and again in 1993, his presence in RoSPA campaigns has much diminished over the ensuing years. Local Tufty clubs have been wound down and little merchandise is available on their website, but he is still used by the RoSPA in publications and educational packs for schools. |
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| Accession number | B.116-2011 |
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| Record created | January 6, 2012 |
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