University of Oxford Botanic Garden Middle-earth. In the Evelyn Waugh novel "Brideshead Revisited", Lord Sebastian Flyte takes Charles Ryder "to see the ivy" soon after they first meet. As he says, "Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn! There's a beautiful arch there and more different kinds of ivy than I knew existed. I don't know where I should be without the Botanical gardens" (Chapter One). In Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels "His Dark Materials", a bench in the back of the garden is one of the locations/objects that stand parallel in the two different worlds that the protagonists, Lyra Belacqua and Will
Characters in The Railway Series lives at Dryaw Airfield. He was built in 1949 and appears in 1956. "Sir Topham Hatt", The Fat Controller, is the head of the main rail company on Sodor. He is a firm but fair leader for whom the engines have the greatest respect. The minor characters are described in their own article, Minor characters in The Railway Series, or in the articles about the railways on which they operate: Characters in The Railway Series Many characters have appeared in the books of "The Railway Series" by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and in the spin-off television series,