SIR Tony Robinson returned to a Woodford Green stage almost 60 years after he first tread the boards there aged 11.
The Blackadder star drew crowds of hundreds of people when he visited the Sir James Hawkey Hall in Broomhill Road on Wednesday (December 7).
The former Wanstead High School pupil, now 70, first performed at the hall in a Terence Rattigan play there 59 years ago.
But he decided to come back for the final date of the tour promoting his new autobiography, No Cunning Plan: My Story by Tony Robinson.
In a conversation with Bath Literature Festival’s Alex Clark he answered questions on growing up in Redbridge and his long and varied career.
He said: "My first words ever on stage were, ‘I’ve been knocking on this door for half a bleedin’ hour.’
"The shock of such a profane word springing from the lips of a young child (I was eleven but looked about eight) brought the house down. I had no idea why the audience was laughing, but I liked the sound of it a lot."
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