C. S. Lewis and the Bill Stickers Gang

[Extollager]

Tolkien used to tell his kids stories about Bill Stickers (who will be prosecuted). It appears that C. S. Lewis's in the gang involvement was much deeper. Its leadership was all female.

CS Lewis supported secret heritage gang (From Oxford Mail)

Bravo, CSL!!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Bill Posters is Innocent I tell ye!

 

[The Judge]

The Bill Stickers Gang was instrumental in saving the Old Town Hall at Newton on the Isle of Wight -- now owned by the National Trust -- which is where I first heard of them.

And this article might be of interest, and confirms another kind-of link with CSL:

Only one member was officially "outed", in an obituary in the Times in 1996, when she died aged 93. This was Bill Stickers, aka Dr Margaret Steuart Pollard, a brilliant Sanskrit scholar, Cornish bard, historian and a great-niece of Gladstone.

Among her many achievements, she was, until 2004, holder of the record for creating the world's longest piece of embroidery, a 1,338ft (407m) depiction of C S Lewis's Narnia stories.

 

[Extollager]

Yes--I sent a letter to the TLS about the tapestry after they reviewed a book about "Stickers," but I haven't seen it in print. You'll know it's me if you see a letter on Bill Stickers from a North Dakota address soon.

 

[Danny McG]

further to Bill Stickers will be prosecuted - this was , back in the late sixties, a short lived strip in the Beano (or Dandy ) comic. He lived his life constantly on the run, always thought he'd found temporary refuge but then would see a sign on a wall saying 'Bill Stickers will be prosecuted ' and take off again. Poor Bill's catchphrase "Who me? b- b- but I haven't done anything!"

Similar to the line from Zulu "fire at will " so why does poor Will deserve such treatment?