On this Day 1979: Wollaton Park’s ‘living gnomes’

OTD, October 31st 1979…

Terry Lloyd reported for ATV Today from Nottingham where some strange activity had apparently been sighted in a park…

Terry spoke with a group of children in Nottingham who were allegedly convinced that they had seen a party of gnomes playing in Wollaton Park on several occasions. Terry asks them about their gnome sighting and then talks to clairvoyant, Simon Alexander, who believed in the children’s stories, and had begun placing garden gnomes in the park in hopes of attracting genuine living gnomes…