George Corner - the Woggle Hopper

George Corner was a Scout Master and keep fit enthusiast who lived in Batley in West Yorkshire. George was very concerned that his Scouts should keep fit and he maintained that they should be able to leap-frog any item the height of their woggle (a small leather ring that secures the Scout's neck-tie). To prove the point, George toured the country, often in fancy dress, and demonstrated how to leap-frog a full size pillar box!

Unfortunately I have no details of when or where these pictures were taken, except that the box at bottom left is our PB15 when in Goerge's garden.

There are some amazing pictures and film footage of George in action during the 1960s and 1970s. When he died, a special memorial to him was erected in Batley churchyard showing him in full Scout uniform leapfrogging a post box.

The Post Office donated a damaged Victorian pillar box to George and it sat in the garden of his modest two-up two-down in Batley until his death, when it was acquiredby a collector and stored in a lock-up garage in Northamptonshire. When that was clearedin 2003, the box was one of two to join the museum sector. The VR Pillar (PB15) came to the Colne Valley Postal History Museum whilst a rare Vandyke PB44 came here before going to it's new home at theIsle of Wight Postal Museum.

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