Miss Agneash Christian runs the Sunday School, is young, and pretty: she may become the love interest for Dave the PV. They quite possibly ran a hatmakers shop in Parliament Street. The latter are retired elderly spinsters who take pleasure in home made sloe gin, yoghurt, and each other. Mrs Crellin works in the bakery Mrs Crellin is a devout attender at St Cleminson's, as are The Misses Clarke. Īnd then there are The Artists : Hector Umbrage, Poppy Hedges (harpist) and the dull Danish poet whose name escapes me. Mr Pardhew's first cousin is the famously dissolute water colourist, Daventry Pardhew. Mr is the local scoutmaster, with the running gag that wherever he goes, he gets lost. That big circular saw at Auldyn Works has a lot to answer for. 'Lucky' Joughin gets his name from the fact that he isn't he has eight and half fingers, if you include his thumbs. The Ramsey Butchers, think rugby team, only worse, on a night out "Worzel" Gammidge, railway traffic manager and inventor of the filo fags memo system Whacker Caine, schoolmaster, teaches history and is in charge of outdoor pursuits
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Splash Gordon, one of the railway painters, liberal in the use of masking tapeĭeemster Kissack, owner of Ballavague Mansion, and serial philanderer Mr Landlord runs an under the counter bookie service. Mrs and Mr Landlord, proprietors of the Station Bar, Mrs Landlord being the driving force behind the business as well as being chairperson of the lady Licenced Victuallers, secretary of the local W.I. Comprising of "Granite", "Semtex" and "Cauliflower" The Foxdale PW Crew, not to be argued with, outside of working hours ( which are when they feel like it) can be found in the Baltic public house. Keeps his railway and road services uniform buttons on a string, which is pulled through the jacket according to the season Thinks he is called Porky because he used to be a butcher, but it isn't the reason at all. Porky Quayle, train guard in spring and summer, bus conductor in autumn and winter. Roley Radcliffe, stationmaster, nicknamed after the watch he keeps looking at whilst awaiting arrivals, nothing ever leaves His station late, even if it does His family were adversely affected by the Dumbbells Bank crash Juan Faragher, Eric the Loon's nephew, some say " a chip off the old block" and they could be right The Galoot, another of Finlo's gang, no one knows his real name A favourite with the lady gatekeepers, his pw trolley can often be found next to a crossing lodgeĮric The Loon, one of Finlo Qualtrough's gang, built like an ox, able to lift rail lengths single handedly. A brief introduction to some of the 'inhabitants' of the old S tation Bar and its environs :įinlo Qualtrough, pw chargehand on the "Northern" has the reputation of being able to shin down a drainpipe, run two hundred metres and cycle like the wind, all with his trousers round his ankles.