It's 1936!
- Simon Devere
- Giles Waddington
King's Street Run - our local
The Ministry 9 - Montellian House, in Surrey
- 29-30 year old middle class dapper chap, Jazz trumpet player.
- Played the rounds in Cambridge parlours and bars with 'The Jukes'.
- Sounds a little like Shorty Baker or Billy Butterman (August's favourite Jazz trumpeter is Bix Beiderbecke).
- From Dorset! No sense of style
- Physics Major
- Might have taken 6-7 years to finish his degree
- Came to Section 9's attention in year 19xx
- September started @ Kent home boy's school as a science master
- 'Retreat'
- Our first mission
- Things that we don't understand!
- Bartlowe - arriving 1600 on the 19th December - Baines will pick us up
- via Liverpool @ the Grand
- Dossier on Wesley
- Beswick House, 12AC grounds, has grounds and Hunting Lodge
- Laurence Shoosdown, founded
- Headmaster - Percival Shoosdown (An Oxford chap). Smart, upright military type. Captain, Vic X in the Boer war (1899) Returned to UK in 1902. Published Historian, author on the Crusades.
- Sporting tournaments and leagues. Rugby place. Cricket too, I expect
- Baines - the grumpy groundsman
- Big lady in a smock - Mrs Baines
- Indian boy, 10. Madphur
- White lad, 9
- Guest rooms on 3rd floor
- Cloddering, PE teacher
- Edwina Perkins, Latin Classics. Prim and proper, robust with cardigan and pearls.
- Cecil Braithwaite, very old and senile History master
- Matron, an ELDERLY lady
- Maureen, the cat's meow
- Beddington, acting head boy
- Robertson, acting prefect (4)
- Simpkins, prefect (4)
- Smythe, Wilkins, Jerome (1)
- Something is going to happen to Wesley that will affect the Ministry. We have to find out what.
- He will be involved in something in the next month, over the Christmas break - definitely at 3am on the 25th
- We are there as observers, we shouldn't record anything
- Zero information so far!
- Stop things 'getting out of control' - let's not scare the locals
- Peter 'Dobber' Dobson - Cambs Rugby Blue, untouchable. Sent down
- What was he sent down for? Got mixed up with some Chinese gentlemen. Opium/Opiates I guess. Whoops-a-daisy~
- sdasdifuhhhhh
- Shoosdown got his riches in the Orient.
- Painting in large room. Old Shoosdown. One hand is on knee, one hand on desk, holding a small ornate hand mirror. Desk is actually a dressing table.
- In each corner of a painting in the stairway is a mirror, in a small ornate frame. 8in squared. Possibly oriental-ish.
- Headmaster's suite is on the 1st floor.
- We're on the 3rd floor
Perkins has a study to herself...?- Beswick family crest in stained glass window in main hall
- 3 outbuildings - the folly, the hunting lodge and the chapel
- 1st display case containing stuff related to the Beswicks: Books, pictures of the school, photographs of the buildings throughout the years, Sir Leopold Beswick was in the first crusade, 1398, present house built in 1528. 1830 bought by Shoosdown. Renovations in 1904.
- 2nd display case Shoosdown info.
- 3rd display case. 2 portraits.
- Pendlefell witches
- Beswicks were behind the Pendlefell witch burnings.
- Sepher Ha-Sha'are Ha-Daath (Hebrew for gates of knowledge)
- The Ravages of the sons of the Bloated lady
- The book of the Gates of Knowledge (Mandarin)
- The people of Shem
- Darogolath - the mother of dreams
- 5 old oak, very large filing cabinets
- desk & chairs & stationary
- refunded family fees to dead boys from the 50s
- D Bloggit, 3 rooms converted attic above the northeast rooms
- Loz Shoosdown, second son made his money in the orient. Married Emily Fitzwilliam (died in 1855 - HOW?).
- Monty Shoosdown
- Percy took over in 1904.
- Sarah Forsythe died in 1869.
- Painting in a study room - 5 masted merchant ship, 'The Sea Maid' - Loz's ship he commisioned for his trip to the orient.
- In the library, 2 locked cases with books in. 1 of them has a collection of books and scrolls in oriental writing. Old!
- Concentric circles on a cane. Like an Orrery?
- The Gallery has a pic of Shoosdown in port with ships in the background.
- Attack his mind (inside the mirror dreams)
- Attack his body (loft dresser)
- Deny more sacrifices (evacuate)