Brookmans Park its transmitter station at Bell Bar. The war years resulted in many being evacuated to Brookmans Park from London, but the surrounding area was also hit. Brookmans School was built as the village grew. Local legend has it that Miss Muffet was Patience Moffat, daughter of entomologist Dr. Thomas Moffat (possibly Moffett or Moufet), who lived in the area from 1553 to 1604 on a farm. He had invited a poet over for Christmas. During his stay he overheard Miss Moffat tell her father of how she was eating her curds and whey when a spider came down from the
One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) for devil's own sell." The opening two-part episode of the 2015 season of "Lewis" was titled "One for Sorrow", and involved a stuffed magpie. Two versions of the rhyme play an important part in Terry Pratchett's novel "Carpe Jugulum" (1998), where magpies are considered the eyes of the cunning vampire Count Magpyr. The lyrics to this poem can be found in the artwork, A Flock of Words in Morecambe, amongst other poems about birds. Lyrics from the rhyme are mentioned in Corinne Bailey Rae's song "Choux Pastry Heart", from her self-titled debut album, released in 2006. The anthology "Charmed Destinies"