"There's A Benny Green Inside All Of Us" . Artist Unknown... . In 1978, the very first character seen on screen in a new BBC children's drama series was a young black pupil called Benny Green. To millions of schoolkids who watched Grange Hill each and every week in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Benny Green was one of them. It was the first time that the BBC had produced a children's show that felt authentically working-class and an important part of that mix was Benny's place in the central trio of characters - a nervy, amiable foil to fast-talking Tucker Jenkins and his big, loyal mate Alan Humphries. Benny always hugged his football like a substitute comfort blanket, muttered "flipping heck, Tucker" an awful lot and got into exactly the same scrapes as his mates. Over the years that he went from nervous newboy to confident fifth-former, he received the same punishments, chased and ran away from the same girls and spoke the same language as his two friends. His final appearance in the show saw him save bullying victim Roland Browning from yet another beating from evil Gripper Stebson, the one character in Grange Hill who did raise the issue of racism. The fact that Benny was black - at a time of changing attitudes in Britain - did not seem to matter a jot. His role in the show just seemed to reflect the make-up of school playgrounds and friendships in many playgrounds across the country - and offer an example to those parts of the country that had not been touched by the waves of immigration that had been taking hold in Britain's cities and towns for the previous two decades. . #BennyGreen #TerrySuePatt #StreetArt #Graffiti #StreetArtLondon #GlobalStreetArt #ShoreditchStreetArt #BLM #AfroPunk #GrangeHill #Cockney #BlackBritish #AfroAnglo #Stencil #BlackActors (at Brick Lane - Shoreditch) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIFrB0vgynT/?igshid=21r6hvt3jgri