17 TMH (The Missing Heir: episode one) - The Careys move house
"The Missing Heir" was written by my sister and I when we were children in the 1960s. (The story featured the little people in my model town. The photos were taken in 2009, using the original houses and people from the 1960s.)
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The government is so pleased with Mr Carey’s recent work that they offer to build him a new house with laboratories on the site of the ruined grange. Clive and Wilfred take up archery and spend their time being Robin Hood. Dan and Polly and Tom try to stop thinking about Bella and Alfred and Raymond.
However one afternoon when Dan is visiting Mary at the castle, she mentioned that she had noticed Bella slipping away by herself when she comes up to the castle for bridge evenings and so on, and that a few nights before she found her at the door of the king’s study. Bella made some lame excuse but Mary is doubtful.
One afternoon there is the annual break-up party at the castle and Bella comes up to help with the games and gives chocolates lavishly to all the children. Then she asks if she may do some sketching of parts of the castle. As she goes out, Mary glances significantly at Dan. Tom and Polly see this and decide to shadow Bella for their afternoon’s entertainment. First they see her set up her easel, with a half-done sketch already on it, then as they follow her they find that she is examining all the upper rooms which are open and marking them off on a plan, which she carries. Finally as she is going back, they run into her on a corner, giggle and then look innocent and apologise. They decide that she is up to no good and decide to keep an eye on her.
The next day they are going down the street for Mrs Carey when they see a stranger and Tom decides that he is suspicious because his shoe lace is undone, so they shadow him to see if he will do it up, and he stops outside the church and does it up by one of the seats. So they take the shopping home, and go out again, and see the man coming out of the church. Polly remembers that she thinks she lost a ribbon there last Sunday and while she is looking Tom goes to check on her special hiding place, where one of the seat backs has come loose and where she keeps her special hymn book and a spare collection. When she opens it up she calls to Polly in surprise because there are sheets of old blank paper. They think about it for some time and ask the other children who know of the panel if they did anything to it. Only later did Polly remember that as they left the church they had seen Bella coming along with an armful of flowers.
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From "The Missing Heir", written by my sister and I when we were children in the 1960s. See 18 TMH www.flickr.com/photos/35125716@N06/sets/72157613413264818/ for a continuation of the story.
17 TMH (The Missing Heir: episode one) - The Careys move house
"The Missing Heir" was written by my sister and I when we were children in the 1960s. (The story featured the little people in my model town. The photos were taken in 2009, using the original houses and people from the 1960s.)
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The government is so pleased with Mr Carey’s recent work that they offer to build him a new house with laboratories on the site of the ruined grange. Clive and Wilfred take up archery and spend their time being Robin Hood. Dan and Polly and Tom try to stop thinking about Bella and Alfred and Raymond.
However one afternoon when Dan is visiting Mary at the castle, she mentioned that she had noticed Bella slipping away by herself when she comes up to the castle for bridge evenings and so on, and that a few nights before she found her at the door of the king’s study. Bella made some lame excuse but Mary is doubtful.
One afternoon there is the annual break-up party at the castle and Bella comes up to help with the games and gives chocolates lavishly to all the children. Then she asks if she may do some sketching of parts of the castle. As she goes out, Mary glances significantly at Dan. Tom and Polly see this and decide to shadow Bella for their afternoon’s entertainment. First they see her set up her easel, with a half-done sketch already on it, then as they follow her they find that she is examining all the upper rooms which are open and marking them off on a plan, which she carries. Finally as she is going back, they run into her on a corner, giggle and then look innocent and apologise. They decide that she is up to no good and decide to keep an eye on her.
The next day they are going down the street for Mrs Carey when they see a stranger and Tom decides that he is suspicious because his shoe lace is undone, so they shadow him to see if he will do it up, and he stops outside the church and does it up by one of the seats. So they take the shopping home, and go out again, and see the man coming out of the church. Polly remembers that she thinks she lost a ribbon there last Sunday and while she is looking Tom goes to check on her special hiding place, where one of the seat backs has come loose and where she keeps her special hymn book and a spare collection. When she opens it up she calls to Polly in surprise because there are sheets of old blank paper. They think about it for some time and ask the other children who know of the panel if they did anything to it. Only later did Polly remember that as they left the church they had seen Bella coming along with an armful of flowers.
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From "The Missing Heir", written by my sister and I when we were children in the 1960s. See 18 TMH www.flickr.com/photos/35125716@N06/sets/72157613413264818/ for a continuation of the story.