Posted by Peter Roche on July 10, 2006 at 18:00:57 from 62.253.128.12 user badboy.
In Reply to: Re: HELP PLEASE posted by RichardG on July 10, 2006 at 14:46:25:
I think it is mentioned in Christina Hardyment's "AR & Captain Flint's Trunk".
Thanks Richard, as you say, it is mentioned in AR&CFT, (twice in the text on p142 and once regarding a photo, opposite p161), but I wonder if it was Christina's name for them, she doesn't actually credit Ransome for using the term. Did Ransome refer to them as such in any diary entries? Can anybody else help? In the meantime I'll contact Christina.