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) John Brand's "Observations on Popular Antiquities" on Lincolnshire with the lyric: One of the earliest versions to extend this was published, with variations, in Michael Aislabie Denham's "Proverbs and Popular Saying of the Seasons" (London, 1846) On occasion, jackdaws, crows and other Corvidae are associated with the rhyme, particularly in America where magpies are less common. A version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of an ITV children's TV show called "Magpie", which ran from 1968 to 1980. The popularity of this version is thought to have displaced the many regional