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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 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 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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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Edna The Evacuee!
Edna The Evacuee had a perpetually worried look about her. It wasn't down to the trauma of leaving her mother, two grandmas, two...
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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss Doris Moon!
Doris Moon was most definitely the girl that made the thing that drilled the hole that held the ring that drove the rod that turned the...
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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 18, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Miss Penny Stamp!
Penelope (Penny) Stamp was the Postmistress of Little Hope, the conscientious stamper and examiner of all packages and letters (home and...
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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Mr George Cross!
Mr George Cross, SOE Agent extraordinaire, was known to be a master of disguise and slight of hand and was a damned fine shot to boot. ...
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Juliet Warrington
- Jul 15, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Commander Codrington Shagg-Pyle!
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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