that they had booked themselves in the 1930s were replaced by appearances in the West End. They were able to fund the training of two apprentices and their expertise was sought for major productions that requires puppetry. They created life size puppets of The Water Babies for a production at the Glynebourne Theatre. These puppets later appeared in Australia and they, together with arts grants, are credited with inspiring other puppet productions in the 1960s and 1970s. By the time her husband died on 23 April 1985 they had retired to show their collection of puppets. Hogarth moved to Budleigh Salterton after her husband's death where her only child continued the family business. Hogarth died in a nursing home near her house on 9 April 1993, at the age of eighty-three. Legacy Hogarth and her husband's puppets which they collected as they toured abroad are in a collection in London. In 2003 it was announced that the BBC would recreate "Muffin the Mule", but Hogarth's naughty character would be replaced by a helpful character and the series would have an animated Muffin. Some of the BBC episodes survive and are available. Some of the original series was included in a 2006 Doctor Who story titled "The Idiot's Lantern". References 1910 births 1993 deaths British puppeteers People from Surrey (before 1965)