[2][3] He also illustrated the 1930s John Lane edition of a Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
[1] Beaman attended the Heatherley School of Fine Art, and during that period founded the theatre group known as the Dickens Fellowship, which led to him being invited to perform at smoking concerts.
After his stint there he turned to making wooden toys, taking advantage of the fact that Germany was no longer the dominant force in the industry.
[1] May Jenkin, or "Aunt Elizabeth", arranged for his Toytown stories to be adapted into radio plays for Children's Hour, and when they became successful she wrote to Hulme Beaman demanding more.
[2] Later in his career he was inspired by the early Walt Disney cartoons to create marionette and animated renditions of his Toytown play The Arkville Dragon.