Garmouth is a fictional town in the book and the BBC television serial, "The Machine Gunners" by Robert Westall. BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1936. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Machine Gunners is a British television serial made by the BBC in 1983. ... Jump to: navigation, search Robert Westall (1929–1993) is the author of many books, including The Machine Gunners. This is based on the Second World War, where a group of children living in Tyneside, England try to retrieve a machine gun from the turret of a felled German aircraft. ...