"The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" meant that there were loads of them...
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I used to believe there were loads of Wombles, until about a minute ago...— Nat
- i used to believe that if you ate loads and loads of crust from bread it would make you have BIG boobies.— Israel Bliss
- I used to think farts were air you had breathed in and out loads of times and was 'used'Anon
- It was common "knowledge" where I lived that if you picked dandelions then you would wet the bed.— Holly
- A common misheard lyric in BMTH’s ‘Shadow Moses’ is “THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!”— Oli
- I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck— oddsox