Tibbles home again – and fish for supper

Carried to London on spare wheel of lorry

Safe at home on Monday afternoon after a 250-mile mistake journey, was Tibbles, the five year old ginger and white cat who was carried all the way from Appledore to London on the spare wheel of a lorry. For three days 18 year old Miss Mary Williams of Market Street, Appledore, searched for her lost pet.

29 August 1958 Tibbles home again

In London Tibbles was found by driver Harry Wilson who was taking a load of flowerpots to Hillingdon, Middlesex. After making the Appledore-London journey, he found the cat, splashed with mud and grit, curled up on top of the spare wheel, and took it to the London headquarters of the RSPCA. When a national newspaper carried the story of a cat’s arrival in London, complete with picture, the cat was recognised by its owners. Tibbles was returned via the Atlantic Coast Express in a basket to Bideford Station where Mary was waiting, then it was home to Appledore for a special feed of fish.

Gazette article 29 August 1958

 

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