1971: AMAZING Pillar Box-Jumping Pensioner | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

The art of 'woggle-hopping' - vaulting over things the height of your woggle, like Royal Mail pillar boxes - is ably demonstrated by sprightly septuagenarian, 'Jumping' George Corner. George even carries his own portable pillar box around with him, so he can get his woggle-hopping fix wherever in the world he finds himself.
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[@darrendm8037]

I tried woggle hopping after a night out and earned my scout "Midnight trip to A&E" badge!

[@daniellamcgee4251]

I just looked him up. There's a 'Gettyimages' photo of 'Jumping' George Corner woggle hopping over his own Victorian letterbox in his garden, aged 79 years. He had just raised £1000 for disabled children. Mr. Corner is also featured in Colne Valley Postal Museum. What a wonderful, healthy, and unique way to find passion, purpose, and meaning in life!

[@wellybobs4403]

sorry to tell you but he died long ago. if he was still alive he would be 120 years old.. And probably still up for it.

[@jacquelinehillson9589]

She’s talking past tense 👀

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Why have you wrote Gettyimages in inverted commas?

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

@@wellybobs4403 no sh t Sherlock

[@BadgerBotherer1]

@@wellybobs4403 He died in 1979.

[@Jumpmaster337]

Woggle hopping has a better ring to it than parkour!

[@piccalillipit9211]

*OH WOW - I LIVED NEAR HIM* as a kid - about 200m down the road - I remember the post box in his garden

[@natalliaf6387]

I planted tomatoes

[@bfyrth]

Did you jump it?

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@bfyrth - NO - it was really big

[@spider-ham7140]

Haha that’s amazing

[@jeanlefranc3817]

God, we could really use more Georges in 2022.

[@natalliaf6387]

really?

[@johnneville403]

@@natalliaf6387 Yes.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

@@johnneville403 I second that YES!

[@GhastlyCretin]

@@Ian-gw2vx I'll third that.

[@TheQwagmire]

Still waiting 2023 😢

[@bonlives4eva]

I jumped over a land mine..... Love it!

[@1969Kismet]

Hence the important of prepositions. In this case "over" and "on" have a very different results ; )

[@MrMann0123]

My car... a land mine... just casual there

[@nigden1]

By his bearing, and demeanour, he looks like ex military to me, top man.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

They were all ex military then? Haven’t you heard of WW2?

[@nigden1]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 Of course, my father fought in it, my uncle didn't.

[@dutchleedsls25]

More like WW1 if he was 71 in 1971

[@blehblah9309]

He's wearing what looks like an MoD beret without a badge on, but he didn't bother shaping the bloody thing properly. Half wonder if he's smuggling a pillar box.

[@normanboyes4983]

@@blehblah9309 Hope you are content with your perspective.

[@dermitdrApe]

amazed to see that post boxes were emptied 5 times a day back then! insane.

[@buxvan]

I remember watching this on Nationwide back in the mid 70's. Bet I can't leapfrog when I'm 71.

[@d.k.1394]

Lovely chap

[@sinbin001]

Only in Britain. Love it . ❤️❤️

[@GhastlyCretin]

WoggleHopping might be the most British term I've ever heard.

[@slipnpitch1894]

71 years old. Bloody amazing

[@lundsweden]

Dude is 122 now and still jumping pillar boxes in 2022!

[@johnnyswift7773]

Pure gold✨

[@johnaldred6864]

I'm. Glad someone POSTED that .!

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Woggle hopping - who knew. Good for you George. Age is just a number and if you're fit it doesn't matter if you're 71 or 21.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

any idea how old he lived to?

[@hilaryepstein6013]

@@fidelcatsro6948 sorry I don't know

[@Dogdayafternoon4325]

@@fidelcatsro6948he was born in 1901 and died in 1979

[@paulwestwell7160]

Jumping pillar boxes in heaven now? George Albert Corner 11 Jan 1900-October 1979 R.I.P.

[@Mirrodin82]

Back when tv was entertaining

[@Maximustard]

That is, a first class post

[@nuruzzaman4893]

Very good!

[@Rick-wk7hr]

The first free runner 😊

[@lafreewaylafreeway]

Wow….brilliant 👍👍👍👍

[@alancheatley4378]

Dont think he would like emails, nothing to jump over lol

[@vanessahawarden9028]

Spectacular!

[@charlesklimko492]

Looks / sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Awesome.

[@carmelhughesparolya899]

Brave man 👏

[@justinsmith1177]

Wow the Post Box is emptied 5 times a day.

[@davedogge2280]

This guy leap frogged over a Wehrmacht officer when he stormed a Normandy beach and plucked his Luger from his holster and never looked back.

[@chadgun4135]

To old for D day

[@stephenchappell7512]

@@chadgun4135 Indeed being born in 1900 he was possibly 20 years too old People born his year did fight in WWI though

[@eddie4324]

@@stephenchappell7512 At 44, he could have been a senor NCO. Not sure what his military record was, but he was just about young enough to be fighting in WW2.

[@stephenchappell7512]

@@eddie4324 That's why I used the word 'possibly' My uncle Trooper D S Moss (1920 - 1941 2nd RGH) was more typical of WWII fighting age

[@maggieb369]

What a cool dude

[@cheeseapples27]

Parkour, parkour parkour! parkour!

[@kerry1754]

Only the British, so proud

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

Britain is the only country that Monty Pythons can come from. They didn’t make this stuff up, it was all for real.

[@OurnameisLegion66]

Still prefer watching this than today's utter gutter trash celebrities on the news..

[@craftybookworm8280]

Ditto😁

[@johnshields6852]

That's great, I'm 63 and workout everyday, my body is as flexible and strong as when I was 20, I'm actually stronger, if you shake my hand you'll know it. Good luck. 🙏🇺🇸

[@jockiron]

Old George died in 1979.

[@alexmarshall4331]

Batley... Home of Fane Acoustics!!!

[@Jestersson]

Men of his era were cut from a different cloth.

[@borderlands6606]

Yes, tweed mostly.

[@marjoriejohnston3038]

Same age as I am now. Wow.

[@prawncrisp5951]

And how’s your woggle-hopping these days, Marjorie?

[@steveknight391]

George was a top bloke and often jumped in fancy dress! There are colour clips later from the 70s of him woggle-hopping in full hunting gear!

[@markofsaltburn]

I remember this

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Careful.. One slip and you miss the Woggle and get a Gobble ! 😁💯❤

[@spider-ham7140]

Jumped over a land mine?! What?! Lol

[@steve24822]

So that's how parkour started!

[@hellie_el]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@thebat7048]

The Godfather of Free-running and Parkour 🤪

[@alexgreen3662]

Park tour 70’s style

[@keill35]

He trained a dolphin? To jump over a letterbox? Nice.

[@rabih1978]

They must have had an early version of sponge bob

[@natalliaf6387]

Good on him. Hope you're doing well, SIr George Corner.

[@markofsaltburn]

He’s still going well at the fine age of 132.

[@natalliaf6387]

@@markofsaltburn goes to show we should all be hopping boxes

[@paulsharp3343]

@@markofsaltburn Nah, he's 122. His age 71 + the 51 years from 1971 to now. Still impressive through.

[@heresjohnny602]

@@paulsharp3343 Woosh.

[@officialdazer]

@@paulsharp3343 He's dead

[@79narz]

Still at it , saw him down the bull ring in Birmingham yesterday, gets a bit annoying after a bit tbh .

[@kingspunkbubble]

I imagine those top ornaments could cause a problem or two.

[@redbird9658]

Before health and safety stopped us doing everything.

[@highbury1972]

George jumped over a Land Mine, Trained a Dolphin to jump over a Letterbox and his hardest task was training Paul Sykes to punch a shark in the Fooking Ear hole!!

[@MattTweeks]

"PARKOUR!"

[@DaraM73]

From pillar to post?

[@wood_stone_iron]

After you let your grandfather play Assassin's Creed for the first time.

[@Veni_Vidi_Vortice]

Notice that he gave telephone boxes a wide berth.

[@ok2760]

Amazingly, this guy is still alive!

[@jimmyp7928]

Doubt it, he'd be 122 years old.

[@stephenspence1192]

That would make him 122 years old. I don,t think so.

[@ok2760]

@@jimmyp7928 I saw him recently

[@ok2760]

@@stephenspence1192 he lives near me, I saw him a while ago

[@blastfromthepast8344]

@@ok2760 Was that before or after you saw Elvis, John Lennon, Nessie and a flying saucer...?

[@martinmartinmoone3104]

An elderly " boy scout" from Yorkshire, wasn't Jimmy savile an elderly Yorkshire man who liked boys?

[@gabriel771100]

Nowadays, people can't even jump out of bed.

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

How Parkour started

[@professormcclaine5738]

He's bound to offend someone .

[@petetrundell5454]

What a hero. There’s no shortage of batty Yorkshiremen out there. Just ask me kids!

[@Togidubnus]

Q. How do you know you're in a room with a Yorkshireman? A. He'll tell you.

[@MeTube3]

I remember one, played a couple of spells for Leeds. David I think his name was. Took after his mum Nora.

[@leehighland5435]

I tried it once, but I caught my gord wangler and had to take a year off work.

[@cambs0181]

So he basically invented parkour

[@pod9538]

LANDMINE??

[@davedogge2280]

that's why I made the WW2 comment about him above but someone said that he was too old to storm Normandy beach.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

He’s talking about chicken turds left on the drive way. Carful not to stand on them when they get out of the car

[@davewalker7126]

They used to have old land mines on the beach promenades in the 70's with slots cut in them to put money for the RNLI - I assume he meant one of them

[@MrRawMonkey]

5 collections a day at the first letter box

[@d.k.1394]

He died 10 yrs later when he caught his woggle top on a kn ife

[@jeffo83]

wow bet he lived to a ripe age

[@Dungeonfreak]

79

[@112chapters3]

His bf is the geezer that rides the tiny bike.

[@Rog5446]

71 years old, going on 99, I think his birth certificate should be examined.

[@13strange67]

Frank Spencer's Dad

[@janreznak881]

I wonder what this guy would have thought of the collective west in 2022. He'd probably say "at least we're not speaking German", amirite.

[@liborsionko]

"... there's no limit to this' 1973? ....maybe?

[@jourwalis-8875]

There are no "Pillar-boxes" abroad!

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

If you are still a Scout at 79 there is a problem... Venturers wouldn't take him ?

[@rooneye]

1971 why's is black and white?

[@Jehannum2000]

I think a few TV programmes were still B&W in 1971.

[@112chapters3]

“Come up to London” bombaclaat. Erryman know that da train go up da mainline to London. More so back in the times of this production. Shocked tbh. Legit. Even know proper council stock people I have encountered know that you go up to London.

[@mac7040]

Even Google could not translate such bad English.

[@darrendm8037]

@@mac7040 I understood it quite easily. Though I disagree with the sentiment. You "go down to that there posh London".

[@simonduncan8327]

Who said the British are odd ?

[@majorlaff8682]

Bill Oddie.

[@simonduncan8327]

@@majorlaff8682 that’s odd

[@majorlaff8682]

@@simonduncan8327 Oddly enough, Bill Oddie, of The Goodies, was quite odd himself..

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Founding Father of Parkour Revolt??? Viva Parkourlution!! He should be 122 years old today?

[@markmanc-zw3td]

After a couple of mistakes you'd no longer be a mail, sorry male 🙂

[@derf9465]

🤣 😂 🤣 can imagine the comedy sketches of the past making fun of this. Not today, way to soft and cry baby.

[@robsmith6281]

Lucky not to go a pisser and straight into traffic.

[@kildogery]

Not luck. Skill.

[@chadgun4135]

He was convicted in 1973 for jumping a 14 year old boy