Run Teddy Run

A teddy is forever a cute, lovable, cuddly toy. You will find teddies sitting on display under the spotlights inside every good toyshop window. Every child, boy or girl, has loved their teddy and shared their early childhood years and dreams with their cuddly toy.

Run Teddy Run would never be cute enough to sit under a spotlight in a shop window. In fact, he is probably the ugliest teddy one could ever imagine.

Melvyn McHugh was born in 1953 in a small rural village in Essex. From the age of five, his journey to school passed by a garden centre, an army camp, several fruit orchards and a small village shop. While most boys of his age played football and fighting games, Melvyn would invent stories and then, most often, act them out as the hero or main character.

His after-school activities included collecting lizards, snakes, climbing trees, scrumping, and occasionally catching the odd chickens.