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"Younger brother to Little Hope’s very own Lord Horatio Shagg-Pyle, Codrington – as a second son – decided at an early age that it was to...
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Juliet Warrington
- Oct 11, 2022
- 2 min
A Bit of a Time Team moment...
I live in the East Midlands, smack bang in the middle of Viking territory. From the upstairs windows of the house you can see the Trent...
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Juliet Warrington
- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Dissenters Graveyard
Today I went off with a friend to explore a nearby Dissenters' Graveyard. Some might see it as dead boring (pun fully intended) but we...
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Juliet Warrington
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
The Boy Who Caught The Moon!
Trotting home after a rather marvellous evening with friends! No idea who the boy in the sky holding the moon is! More tea, Vicar?
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Juliet Warrington
- Oct 8, 2022
- 1 min
It’s a lovely sunny afternoon for…
...Editing! 🥴😂 Not to worry though, the gin's on ice for later! 🍸🍸
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Juliet Warrington
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
“King’s Cross, please!”
In an effort to confuse Jerry, rumours were put about that Charles l had been reanimated and was working in the ticket office at Little...
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Juliet Warrington
- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Mr Wilf Trotter!
Wilf Trotter was the butcher of Little Hope, his chopper was legendary the length and breadth of Yorkshire. A dab hand with a sausage he...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss Victoria Cross!
Victoria Cross, SOE agent. A master (or indeed mistress) of disguise, Ms Cross resigned from her post as the librarian of Little Hope...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss Vera Flynn!
Vera Flynn had been the choir mistress at St Candida's since at least 1520 and quite frankly put the fear of God into the Rev Aubrey...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 25, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss Violet Millington!
When Violet Millington was bombed out of her house in Lambeth in 1940, she did the obvious thing and headed north to Little Hope and the...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Percy Fishwick!
Chronic myopia due to reading far too many racy novels under his bed sheets meant that young Percy Fishwick was entirely unsuitable for...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Lady Shagg-Pyle!
Lady Shagg-Pyle, the wife of local dignitary Sir Horatio, was a woman with a past. Countess Olga Tzitsupski had met her English husband...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
Meet May Day!
The younger of the two Day girls, May lived with her mother Holly and sister Dee in one of Hilda Ffinch's 'Grace and Favour' residences...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Mrs Lavinia Fox!
Lavinia Fox. Old school. Born 'behind the Colours' to military parents somewhere in India at a date she keeps conveniently forgetting to...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss June Fox!
June Fox was the younger (and indeed only) sister of Mrs Fox's erstwhile husband, Basil. An odd, terribly angular girl with an awfully...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
A Quick Goose up the Allotments!
Walter had had enough. He was no chicken when it came to giving Mrs Merryweather a hand with her undergrowth but a quick goose up the...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Diana 'Dee' Day!
Diana' Dee' Day (pictured right) lived with her mother Holly and younger sister May in the old lodge at the entrance to Hilda Ffinch's...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
I’m getting used to life in the country…
So yes, last night. Midnight: silence of the lambs, or rather a “WTF is wrong with you?” bellowed from my window in the general direction...
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Juliet Warrington
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Lord Shagg-Pyle!
Two hundred and odd years ago, (at about the same time that Napoleon Bonaparte was bundled onto a Royal Navy frigate and carried off to...
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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Little Fanny Fuller!
Little Fanny Fuller was the vicar's housemaid, an honest, decent sort with the world - and the vicar's nephew, young Percy Fishwick - at...
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