Meadowside

In the novel Postern of Fate, Meadowside is an old people's home located some ten to fifteen miles from Hollowquay. Winifred Griffin suggested that Tuppence Beresford go there because Mrs Henderson lives there an she "remembers a lot about the Parkinsons". Also the other residents loved to talk about old times and would welcome a visit.

The book doesn't actually detail Tuppence's visit to the home. It might well have been a tedious and bewildering experience such as one which Tuppence went through at the Pensioners' Palace Club. Nonetheless, she did come back with a few disjointed clues. According to her, the old folks seemed to know something about the events at Swallow's Nest, the house of the Parkinsons. They had heard it from their elderly relations or something. The accounts of these old folks were "Stories of where they had put things or found things. There was some story about a will that was hidden in a Chinese vase. Something about Oxford and Cambridge...."