Things nobody quite explains
An old sign, a wooden horse, and a shell without its whole history.
The copper dormouse was above the inn before Dorothea took it. Nobody has supplied the name of its maker. Once, when the sign was taken down, three people walked straight past the door.
Bellweather & Sons has a carved horse above the window. It is familiar enough to be a landmark, but familiarity does not explain why a toymaker’s sign should be a horse. A shop can keep a question as comfortably as an answer.
At Fenwold Museum, the great shell has an incomplete history too. These are things you can notice without solving them. The world has been going on for longer than a single visit, and not every piece of it needs to be labelled.
Places to visit
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Stories
The Sleeper Train to Brindlecombe
Leave the toyshop with Bartholomew Bellweather and take the overnight sleeper towards his sister’s inn.
With Bartholomew Bellweather, Tobias Tallowick, Dorothea
Night Round at the Fenwold Museum
Join Barnaby Gostling and Miss Vokes among the museum’s small collections and unfinished questions.
With Barnaby Gostling, Miss Vokes
Ambrose and His Dancing Shoes
A pair of dancing shoes draws Ambrose Peverell out of his workshop and towards an evening with Clara Mallowdene.
With Ambrose Peverell, Clara Mallowdene