Summerton Mill

Summerton Mill is a British children's television series created by Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson.

[1] It is a stop motion animated series, set at an ruined watermill, featuring the characters Dan, his dog Fluffa, Dr and Mrs Naybhur who used to live up on the hill, Francoise the cow, Mousey-Tongue the cat, two "yellow-spinner" chickens and the "millfreaks", tiny creatures which appear to resemble small, furry hedgehogs.

He joined production on a speculative basis,[4] and based the voice of Mrs. Naybhur on the one his father created for the character Big Fat Rosie, who featured in a series of stories by author Mary Danby Calvert which he (Peter) read on the radio programme Listen with Mother.

Housman-esque’ i.e. rather melancholy and elegaic for a children’s programme (though not necessarily the worse for that) with their implication that the turning and eventual stopping of the wheel of the derelict watermill was first summoning and then banishing the ghosts (or, more prosaically, memories) of the characters whose comical adventures from a remembered past formed the body of the episode.

[5] Summerton Mill was well-received upon release, and was expanded into its own timeslot on BBC Two, as opposed to being featured in Tikkabilla.