Little Tallowmere wharf
A stone landing below the orchard, with a crane like a heron.
The wharf has a short stone edge, a hand crane, a low warehouse and a small stable with a lamp above its door. The orchard rises behind it. One path leads through the trees towards the Copper Dormouse; a lane goes up to the village green.
Ada brings Patience here with Pip and the bell for St Hilda’s. Dorothea and the verger wait with lanterns. While Pip goes uphill to a bed at the inn, Ada covers the bell for the night and settles in the boat’s cabin.
People connected with this place
Ada Brimble
Canal carrier, with the narrow boat Patience and a grey mare called Marigold.
Pip Hobday
She has come from Amberwick Passage to tell a bell the way home.
Dorothea
Keeper of the Copper Dormouse, painter, and Bartholomew’s sister.
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The Narrow Boat to Little Tallowmere
Travel with Ada Brimble, Pip and a new church bell aboard Patience, along the canal to Little Tallowmere.
With Ada Brimble, Pip Hobday, Dorothea, Ruth Coker, Josiah Coker, Mr Gedge