As I slow down to take a closer look, immediately the drivers behind me become impatient so I pull in and park the car.

The image just leaps out at you from the brick wall. You can see the picture here, it’s of Felix the Cat a well know cartoon character created by a New Jersey cartoonist Otto Messmer in 1919.

It has a special relevance to me because I met the songwriter Hubert David (Mickey to his friends) when he was ninety-two at a music industry lunch. What a man... within minutes we were in deep discussion about song-writing and he told me his Father had been a hit songwriter in the early years of the twentieth century and that he (Hubert David) had written a hit song in 1919 called ‘Felix kept on Walking’ when he was only seventeen. It sold two million copies of sheet music!

His energy for the industry was boundless and his stories about the Tin Pan Alley days were really exciting.

I was so intrigued by Hubert that I met up with him again and I asked if I could produce a documentary about him and his Dad. The result was on Radio Two ‘ Are We downhearted NO!’ and it got 75 fan letters, all down to Hubert and his great PR . (In his later life he had became a Record Plugger)

I’d love to know who the graffiti artist was for this picture, it certainly cheered up my day and I was happy to see that in Wood Green at least ....Felix is still walking!

I found this clip of a recording of the song: (It’s the wrong date on the clip though)