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He wears a checked shirt underneath, a red with white polka dots handkerchief in the top pocket, a beige felt scarf and hat.  The doll has a cloth body and a plastic head, and nylon blonde wig. The box is made of card with a printed sleeve and a display window on the front.   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When their eldest grandson was three years old, he has been to stay with his grandparents on the weekends.  One particular morning he came into their bedroom looked at his grandmother with her ginger hair all over the place pointed at her and said you are Worzel Gummidge and ever since then she was known as Granny Worzel.  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