Posted by Andy on June 28, 2010 at 07:25:12 user AndyG.
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned here before. I'd certainly never noticed it. In Pigeon Post, whilst consulting Slater Bob, we have (on Page 41 and 42 of the 1983 hardback edition, just before the illustration):
"Tell us all you can," said Nancy.
"Well," said Old Bob ...
(clearly directing his comments at her)
..."yer mother's father took me wi' him when he went to Africa after that same stuff."
So was the grandfather as black a sheep as his son, James Turner? ;-) Or did Beckfoot (and its plumbing) come from a gold find?
Andy