For child growing up during the nineteen forties and fifties in the North West of England the arrival of 'The Manchester Evening News' and with it the daily adventures of 'Fudge the Elf' was the event of the day.

It is sometimes hard to realize in retrospect just how grey were those years during and after WII. They lacked colour, choices, and for most families there was little spare income to provide children with the kind of distractions that are now taken for granted. Indeed there was a definite sense in which the indulgence of the young and looking upon the needs of the young as a special case was something that was considered undesirable if indeed the notion of the special case was even given any consideration whatsoever.

So for many children, 'Fudge' provided a special and daily treat.

Both my children loved 'Fudge' albeit only knowing and reading about him in the rather battered hardcover editions that had somehow survived. This collection belongs to my Daughter Laura, and even though a child of more affluent times, she has found as much delight in the various 'Adventures of Fudge the Elf' just as I did during those earlier and bleaker times of my Salford childhood.

We do hope that you enjoy this website and find something to interest you.

Laura Maguire

Peter Maguire