Chigley

Newest Review: ... Hall with his mended and remended lawn mower, Mr Harry Farthing and Winnie at the Chigley pottery which is a cottage industry and not at all like what one finds in the Potteries, Mr Rumpling who operates the narrow boat barge, Mr Clutterbuck the builder with Horace and Cyril the bricklayers, Mr Gubbins and Mr Sneed who are the dustmen, and Bessie, Lord Belborough's steam engine. Each has a job and a little song to it in true Trumptonshire tradition. Like in Trumpton, some of the references may be slightly out of date but without huge effect. Children understand they are the dustman and it matters not if they sing about being Corporat... more

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Are you going to Trumpton? Camberwick Green ? Chigley ? Can ... (848 words)
by - written on 25/06/08 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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By now regular readers will no doubt know full well that life in my home is like taking a step sideways in time. This step sideways includes retro TV for me and the spouse as well as the kids, and while we buy in many dvds, we also take full advantage of the Sky+. One such show that has found its way to the hard drive of that worthy modern contraption is Chigley. Like Camberwick Green and Trumpton before it, this is a stop motion animated series by Gordon Murray. Camberwick Green is a small town in Trumptonshire, in Murray's bucolic England that never quite was. Chigley is an industrial town practically next door to Camberwick Green, and indeed we see familiar faces from ... Read the complete review

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