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Did you know... that the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry?

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The DYK entry was as follows:

...that the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry?

EdJogg (talk) 13:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Standard Gauge Locomotive

The published articles referring to Teddy Boston's locomotives at Cadeby: there are references to a standard gauge locomotive (Peckett 2012/1941), currently on loan from the Lavender Line to the National Railway Museum at York.

Does anyone know:

is it true that Teddy once owned this locomotive (currently named 'TEDDY' in his memory)?
when did he acquire it?
where did it come from?

I am trying to research the history of this locomotive; find me (Jim Pike) at pat1933.co.uk. Thank you.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.1.247.90 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 17 August 2011

I only have the two books listed under 'Publications', and these are not to hand, sorry. (Well worth a read though -- check out eBay.) -- EdJogg (talk) 12:59, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another Book

He is also featured in Great English Eccentrics By John Timpson.184.147.233.15 (talk) 15:23, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Date of birth

I found his birth on FreeBMD [1].

Births Sep 1924 Boston Edwin R. Solihull

Someone will have to apply for the birth certificate if they really want to know an accurate date. Births are indexed in quarters which means that he was born sometime between the beginning of July 1924 and the end of September 1924. At least this enabled me to remove the December birth date which was definitely wrong. Periglio (talk) 17:48, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Footage

A few minutes ofTeddy Boston and his OO gauge GWR layout with full-size bell-signalling equipent was shown on the BBC4 TV programme 'Brush Up... Miniature Britain' presented by Danny Baker and broadcast in Feb 2014. Barney Bruchstein (talk) 20:08, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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