Tales of the Country Eccentrics

Merlin Maddock, Pontycymmer, Glamorgan, Wales - inventor; Monique Huiscamp, Hailsham, Sussex - a gardener with a difference; Michael Levey, Westcott, Surrey - lawnmower racer; Jack Harris, Ashford, Middlesex - an eagle in my garden; Lord Niedpath, Stanway, Gloucestershire - landowner and pigeon fancier; Irene Peeling, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire - the queen of coursing; Charlie Bray, Cole Henley, Hampshire - conker champion; Ernie James, Welney, Norfolk - eels, hives and giant guns; Majorie Hotston Moore, Milborne Port, Dorset - a nun on the run; Bill Curtis, Denbighshire, North Wales - the military man; Edward Dorrell, Preston, Shropshire - the sheep racer; Swein Macdonald, Ardgay Ross-shire - soothsayer; eccentrics from the archives.