CHARLIE IS M’ DARLIN’
Charlie, a three-year-old white cockatoo, caged again after spending five hours at liberty when he escaped from the home of his owner, Mrs T. Forbes, of Shirley. The bird was found perched up a 40ft poplar tree in New Brighton Road and recaptured with the assistance of firemen who had been returning to the central station from a scrub fire at Brooklands. Mrs Forbes is shown with Charlie, who nipped a chunk from a rescuer’s finger, e.nd Firemen R. Jack. W. Jones, and M. Farrar,
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33427, 8 January 1974, Page 1
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