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unusual facts about Mrs Overall



Amy Turtle

It has often been (mistakenly) suggested that Amy Turtle was the inspiration for Victoria Wood's parody of Crossroads Acorn Antiques; Wood has denied this, and Julie Walters (the actress who portrayed Mrs Overall) more than suggested with her performance and appearance that Mrs Overall was in fact based on Crossroads character Mavis Hooper played by Charmian Eyre.


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A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray

Thibaw, last king of Burma, decapitated seventy or eighty of his brothers on his accession, but planted Tamarind trees in Mandalay, and Mrs Overall, wife of Dean Overall was a wanton but was commemorated in an entertaining poem about her - "The Shepherd Swaine" by John Aubrey.