Mavis Pugh appeared in two other "Are You Being Served?" episodes, "Take-over" and "The Club", both as different characters. In 1979, Pugh played Mrs Chase in the "Fawlty Towers" episode "The Kipper and the Corpse". Pugh had small parts in two films, "The Class of Miss MacMichael" in 1978 and "Brothers and Sisters" in 1980. Pugh appeared in two episodes of "Hi-de-Hi!" as The Hon. Winifred Dempster, the aunt of camp entertainments manager Clive Dempster - the 1986 episode "God Bless Our Family" (Series 8) and the 1988 episode "Wedding Bells" (Series 9). From 1987 to 1988, she played Mrs Barrable in
Kipper ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English "kippian", to spawn. The word has various possible parallels, such as Icelandic "kippa" which means "to pull, snatch" and the Germanic word "kippen" which means "to tilt, to incline". Similarly, the Middle English "kipe" denotes a basket used to catch fish. Another theory traces the word kipper to the "kip", or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season. As a verb, "kippering" ("to kipper") means to preserve by rubbing with salt or other spices before drying in the open air or in smoke. Originally applied to