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Many of the locations for
the Deptford Mice trilogy are
real places. If you look carefully behind the branches,
bricks and flagstones, you might just catch a glimpse of
The Green Mouse's realm.....
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In the past,
Greenwich was known as the Greenreach or Grinuvicia.
It was a perfect location for many of the dramatic
events which occur in both "The Deptford Mice" and
"The Deptford Histories". The park is an ancient site,
swamped with history, boasting Roman remains and burial
mounds.
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The gateway
to the old church of St Nicholas is guarded by two
stone skulls. It is within one of these crumbling
sculptures that the spirit of Bauchan, the mischievous
member of the Raith Sidhe is imprisoned, awaiting
the time of his next summoning.
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The Thames
is a character in its own right and features in all
three of "The
Deptford Mice". Twit is flown above and into it by
the bats, Jupiter's carcass is flushed from the sewers
into its wide expanse (before it rejects him) and
the city rats swim through it to Deptford.
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The Cutty
Sark is an old tea clipper in which Thomas Triton
the midshipmouse dwelt with his wife Gwen. The ship
will always be remembered by the mice of Deptford,
for the last battle with Jupiter's spectral army took
place on board and it is venerated by them because
it was there that the Green Mouse appeared. Since
those cataclysmic events, the proud vessel itself
was partially destroyed by fire, but work is afoot
to restore its former glory.
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Local legend
claims that, beneath the heath's empty stretch of
land, hundreds of plague victims are interred. It
was to this place that Morgan was directed by Jupiter
and where Thomas and Twit witnessed the terrifying
ceremony which followed.
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Upon the
dome of this building, Oswald and Audrey finally
confronted the spectre of Jupiter, yet only one
of them returned. Somewhere,
below the observatory hill, lies the Starwife's
realm but her squirrel sentries are always on duty.
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This ancient
tree was grown from the very acorn in which Ysabelle
imprisoned the infernal spirit of Hobb. For many centuries
the Great Oak stood, watching the history of London
unfurl beneath its boughs. Elizabeth I danced around
it and in later years when it became hollow the massive
trunk was used as a lock up by the park's police.
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gale ripped the tree from the earth and now its slowly
rotting remains are fenced in by a railing. Remember,
so long as the smallest part of the Great Oak still
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In the dome
of the cathedral, the bats hold their secret councils
and the four elders sit in wisdom. They were there
before the Great Fire, in the towering steeple of
the old, medieval cathedral in the time when Hrethel
ruled them with the aid of his Great Book of Mystery.
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exists, deep down, below the foundations, through the
layers of ash. When his followers finally discovered
his treachery, he crawled into that bolt hole and perished,
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The old empty
power station was the place where Jupiter's vengeful
spirit made its abode and was turned into a cathedral
of cold. The great building no longer exists, for
it was destroyed in the calamitous events of that
time.
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