Trumpton
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Trumpton was one of the fictional locations within Storyland. Shortly after landing in Storyland, the First Doctor saw Sherlock Holmes walking past a sign giving the direction of Trumpton, Mordor and Lilliput, one of several clues which allowed him to realise he had retuned to Storyland. (COMIC: Nostalgia Corner [+]Loading...["Nostalgia Corner (comic story)"])
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Trumpton, part of Trumptonshire, was a town which contained a greengrocer, J. Clamp & Son, and a fire station, Trumpton Fire Station. It was seemingly run by a mayor.
A young boy once walked through, arriving from Camberwick Green, telling the story of a broadcasting corporation. He was given a flower by Mrs Cobbit, for which he thanked her, before walking over to the Trumpton Fire Department, where Captain Flack was starting a roll call. After Flack blew his whistle, the boy performed a roll call on the various members of the Trumpton Fire Station before giving a salute and entering Chigley. (TV: Future Generations [+]Loading...["Future Generations (TV story)"])
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- While Mordor and Lilliput are both literary references, Trumpton is a reference to a BBC children's programme which ran contemporarily to Doctor Who itself in the late 1960's. The series officially crossed over with the DWU in the BBC charity programme Future Generations [+]Loading...["Future Generations (TV story)"].
- During filming of TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"], Steven Moffat described Leadworth, home to Amy Pond, as "basically Trumpton." [1]
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