The Liver Birds and Series 1 starred Pauline Collins as Dawn and Polly James as Beryl Hennessey. In Series 2, Nerys Hughes debuted as Sandra Hutchinson, replacing Dawn for the rest of the programme's run. The Beryl-and-Sandra pairing is generally regarded as the programme's best period. Beryl was the more 'common' one, while Sandra was soft-spoken and more refined, due to the influence of her snobbish, overbearing mother (Mollie Sugden). Carla Lane drew on her own mother for the character – "Mrs Hutchinson, I think she was my mother. I'm sure she was my mother". Beryl's 'common' mother (the Hennesseys live in Bootle,
Polly Plummer royalty (and referred to as "Lady Polly" and "Lord Digory"). Polly Plummer Polly Plummer (1889-1949) is a major fictional character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia". She appears in two of the seven books: "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle". Polly is introduced in "The Magician's Nephew" - which was the sixth book in the series to be published but is first in the internal chronology of Narnia. Polly was born in London, in 1889. In 1900, she is an 11-year-old girl who lives in London, England in a multi-story terrace house and is the