The Ghost Hunter (TV Series)
''The Ghost Hunter'' is a British children's drama series created for the BBC and based on the books ''The Ghost Hunter'' by Ivan Jones. It was first broadcast in January 2000 and the last series was first broadcast in 2002. Repeats continue to be shown on BBC and CBBC as well as in other countries. The first and second series were later reworked into two ninety-minute films. School location scenes from each of the three series were filmed at St. Laurence School in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. Many of the castle scenes were filmed at Berkeley Castle in the Cotswolds. ''The Ghost Hunter'' series revolves around Roddy and Tessa Oliver, two ordinary children whose lives are turned upside down when William Povey, a shoeshine boy from Victorian England appears in Roddy's bedroom as a ghost and appeals to him for help. The Ghost Hunter is searching for William in order to obtain 'spectral energy' which is only obtainable from capturing ghosts. At first she seems concerned only to ...
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Fantasy Television
Fantasy television is a genre of television programming featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy television programs are often based on tales from mythology and folklore, or are adapted from fantasy stories in other media. The boundaries of fantasy television often overlap with science fiction and horror but also realistic fiction. Genre and subgenres Similar to the difficulty faced by scholars of fantasy film, classifying a television program as fantasy can be somewhat problematic given the fluid boundaries of the genre. Not all programs with fantastic elements may qualify as fantasy. Children's programs in particular often feature fantastic elements that do not qualify the program as fantasy, such as the giant talking avian Big Bird of the popular PBS series ''Sesame Street''. Nevertheless, some critics classify certain children's programs that feature traditional fantasy elements such as barbarian ...
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Shoeshine Boy
Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective coating. They are often known as shoeshine boys because the job was traditionally done by a male child. Other synonyms are bootblack and shoeblack. While the role is denigrated in much of Western civilization, shining shoes is an important source of income for many children and families throughout the world. Some shoeshiners offer extra services, such as shoe repairs and general tailoring. Some well-known people started their working life as shoeshiners, including singers and presidents. History Very large households in Victorian England sometimes included a young male servant called the Boot Boy, specializing in the care of footwear. Hotel staff for this function were commonly called The Boots. (A Boots was one of the crew in The Hunting of the Snark.) Branded shoe polish appeared early in the 19th century: Charle ...
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2000s British Children's Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic Shin (letter), šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ...
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Andrew Havill
Andrew Havill (born 1 June 1965) is an English actor. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the late 1980s, Havill has appeared in more than 40 films and 50 plays. After training in Oxford and London, he began his career in repertory theatre in 1989 and made his screen debut in 1993. Havill has since become a character actor of British costume dramas, with recent work including several credits in Bollywood cinema. Education Havill attended the University of Exeter, where he read English and Drama. He spent four years with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, with roles in London theatre productions including Christopher Short's ''For Those in Peril'' at the Shaw Theatre, ''As You Like It'' at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, and ''Reynard the Fox'' on the Drum Theatre Plymouth and south-west tour. At the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Havill was in ''Henry V'', ''Twelfth Night'', and Ed Kemp's ''A Proper Place''. He spent a further four years wi ...
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Kelly Salmon
Kelly Salmon (aka Kelly Natelle) (born 23 March 1987 in Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English actress and fashion model A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Thoug .... She appeared in the first TV commercial for NSPCC in 1991. She later became a primary school teacher in Hertfordshire. Early life Salmon started modelling at a very young age and made her first commercial at the age of eleven months. She has modelled fashion in a number of different countries and on ''Blue Peter''. She made her film debut in 1995 in Solitaire for 2, playing the young Katie, appearing in just the opening minute of the film. Her next screen role was far more substantial, appearing as Kate Spiller in the popular CBBC show ''Big Kids'' in 2000, alongside Imogen Stubbs, Duncan Duff and Matt Ada ...
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Eddie Brown (actor)
Eddie Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Eddie Brown (dancer) (1918–1992), American dancer * Eddie Brown (musician), American singer and music producer of the duo Joe and Eddie *Eddie "Bongo" Brown (1932–1984), American Motown percussionist *Eddie Brown, Jamaican banjo player who recorded with Stanley Motta * "Eddie Brown", an alternative title of The Brothers Four's song "Sama Kama Wacky Brown" Sports Association football * Eddie Brown (footballer, born 1927) (1927–1996), English footballer * Eddie Brown (footballer, born 2000), English footballer *Eddy Brown (1926–2012), English footballer Gridiron football *Eddie Brown (Canadian football) (born 1966), American slotback in the Canadian Football League *Eddie Brown (arena football) (born 1969), American arena football player *Eddie Brown (safety) (born 1952), American football defensive back *Eddie Brown (wide receiver) (born 1962), American football wide receiver Other sports * Eddie Brown (Australian footballe ...
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John McAndrew (actor)
John McAndrew may refer to: * John McAndrew (Gaelic footballer) * John McAndrew (cricketer) * John Alfred McAndrew John Alfred McAndrew (December 27, 1859 – July 1, 1923) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Renfrew South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 to 1890 as a Liberal member. He was born in Renfrew, Canad ...

Glyn Angell
Glyn means "Valley" in Welsh and may refer to: *Glyn (name), including a list of people with the name *Baron Glyn, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom *Glyn baronets, created for members of the Glyn family *Glyn Ceiriog, a former slate mining village in Wrexham County Borough, in Wales *Glyn Technology School, an English boys' school in Epsom and Ewell *Glyn Valley Tramway, a narrow gauge railway between Chirk and Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, Wales *Mynydd y Glyn, a mountain in South Wales, between the towns of Pontypridd and Tonyrefail *An electoral ward in the community of Llanelli Rural in Carmarthenshire, Wales *An electoral ward in the community of Colwyn Bay in Conwy, Wales See also *Glynn (other) *Glynne (other) *Glinn (other) *Glenn (other) Glenn may refer to: Name or surname * Glenn (name) * John Glenn, U.S. astronaut Cultivars * Glenn (mango) * a 6-row barley variety Places In the United States: * Glenn, Californi ...
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Richard Hanson (actor)
Richard Hanson may refer to: *Richard Hanson (Canadian politician) (1879–1948), Canadian politician *Richard Hanson (bishop) (1916–1988), bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland, 1970–1973 *Richard Hanson (Australian politician) (1805–1876), British-Australian chief justice of South Australia * Richard H. Hanson (1931-2023), American politician *Richard Hanson (Missouri politician), American politician, secretary of state of Missouri in 1994 See also *Richard Hansen (other) *Richard Hanson Weightman Richard Hanson Weightman (December 28, 1816 – August 10, 1861) was an antebellum delegate to the United States Congress from the Territory of New Mexico. He was also a district commander of the secessionist Missouri State Guard during the ...

Jack Quarmby
Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Jack (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Jack (Tekken), multiple fictional characters in the fighting game series ''Tekken'' * Jack the Ripper, an unidentified British serial killer active in 1888 * Wolfman Jack (1938–1995), a stage name of American disk jockey Robert Weston Smith * New Jack, a stage name of Jerome Young (1963-2021), an American professional wrestler * Spring-heeled Jack, a creature in Victorian-era English folklore Animals and plants Fish *Carangidae generally, including: **Almaco jack **Amberjack **Bar jack **Black jack (fish) **Crevalle jack **Giant trevally or ronin jack **Jack mackerel **Leather jack **Yellow jack *Coho salmon, ...
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