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- ↑ "Beachcomber lives again". Daily Express. 5 January 1996. p. 2.
- ↑ One story attributes it to the fact that he once commanded a canal barge.
- ↑ There is some inconsistency about her maiden name. One correspondent calls her "Florrie Palmer as was", but the narrator says that she was a Gurricle, from Crabhampton.
- ↑ J. B. Morton (1989) [1963]. Michael Frayn (ed.). The Best of Beachcomber. ISBN 0-434-79706-5.
