Rising Damp de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington. Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play), the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self-regarding landlord of a run-down Victorian townhouse who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants. Beckinsale played Alan Moore, a long-haired, naive, good-natured and amiable medical student who occupies the top room. Frances de la Tour played Ruth Jones, a fey, whimsical spinster and college administrator who rents another room, with whom Rigsby is in love and to whom he proposes in the last episode. In the pilot episode, a new tenant arrives. Philip
USLHT Warrington USLHT Warrington The United States Lighthouse Tender "Warrington" was a lighthouse tender which served on the Great Lakes. She was built as a steam barge in 1868, and began life under the name "Henry Warrington". Rechristened simply "Warrington", she began government service late in 1870, and was soon pressed into service supporting the construction of the Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron. On one of her trips across the lake, during a late-fall storm, she encountered the schooner "Darien", which was breaking up on the shore; the "Warrington"'s crew managed to turn towards the wounded vessel and rescued her entire