Riseholme (fictional village) in "Lucia in London" (1927), in which Lucia launched herself on London society; "Mapp and Lucia" (1931), in which, following Peppino's death, both Lucia and Georgie (who entered into a companionable marriage in "Lucia's Progress", 1935), took holiday lets in the Sussex town of Tilling (based on Rye) where, at the end of the summer of 1930, they decided to settle. At Tilling Lucia unveiled her celebrated dish, Lobster "à la Riseholme". Lucia and Georgie visited Riseholme again in "Trouble for Lucia" (1939) where they stayed at the home of the operatic "prima donna" Olga Bracely and Lucia called on
Thomas Tilling Railway; and London and North Eastern Railway. During the 1920s, the "Big Four" divested themselves of much of the operations of their bus networks by transferring their interests to Tilling and BET in exchange for shares. The Tilling family's association with the company ended in 1929 with the death of Richard Tilling. In 1931, Thomas Tilling Ltd acquired the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, along with the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company, whose bus construction activities were renamed the Eastern Coach Works Ltd (ECW) in 1936. In 1933, the new London Passenger Transport Board compulsorily acquired the 328 buses that made