Chigley

CHIGLEY
Made by: Gordon Murray Puppets
Shown on: ITV
Years shown: 1968 onwards

The final part of the trilogy was set in Chigley, a hamlet “near Camberwick Green, Trumptonshire”, where Lord Belborough ruled the roost at Wingstead Hall, his stately home. Times were hard in Chigley (government centralisation and city boom etc.), so he and his butler Mr Brackett ran a free steam train for the local people. Some of the characters were already familiar, as the inhabitants of Camberwick Green, who had moved to the bright lights of Trumpton, now seemed to be joining the flight to the countryside. There were new faces joining old though. Mr Swallow was in charge of the canal and all the freight that passed through it, and there was also Mr Clamp the grocer, Harry Farthing the potter, Mr Bilton, Belborough’s gardener, and Mr Chutterbuck the builder. Mr Cresswell was the chief at Cresswell’s Chigley Biscuits, the hamlet’s major industry, where, when the whistle blew at six o’clock, the employees would partake in a seemingly compulsory waltz around the courtyard. Finally, there was the gloriously-named Chippy Minton, and his son, Nibbs, who - predictably - were the cheerful carpenters of Chigley.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 5/10

(Thanks to www.telegoons.org for the borrowed pic)