Editing The Brentford Trilogy (section)

==Recurring characters==
*John Vincent Omally and Jim Pooley – an Irishman living in Brentford and his best friend. The 'heroes' of the series.
*Neville – the part-time barman (who is actually full-time since nobody knows where the real one is) who holds down the Flying Swan in Brentford.
*Norman Hartnell – Brentford shopkeeper and inventor of various bizarre gadgets, including a means of transporting the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Great Pyramid]] from Egypt to Brentford. Not to be confused with the other [[Norman Hartnell]].
*Old Pete and Chips – Old Pete (Age unconfirmed, although he seems to be over a hundred) always appears in the Flying Swan, and Chips is his scraggly dog.  He appears as a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] street urchin in ''[[The Witches of Chiswick]]'' but is known by the name 'Winston'.  In ''[[Knees Up Mother Earth]]'' he accompanied [[H. G. Wells]] to the 20th century where his older self tells him to buy shares in the [[Ford Motor Company]].
*Professor Slocombe – aged, wise [[magician (fantasy)|magician]] who often supplies much of the exposition about the various enemies present in the series (He was apparently [[Merlin]] in the distant past). Is once described as bearing a resemblance to Peter Cushing. Has a butler named Gammon.
*Marchant – John Omally's bicycle, whose anthropomorphic qualities may be a reference to Flann O'Brien's novel ''[[The Third Policeman]]''.
*Soap Distant – Last of a long line of Distants who have spent their lives searching for the denizens of the [[Hollow Earth|inner Earth]]. Soap is an ordinary man when first seen but returns as a cowled and robed albino after five years 'below'. 
*Small Dave – Brentford's dwarf postman, known to all as a 'vindictive, grudge-bearing wee bastard'. Raised the ghost of [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
*Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune – mystic, charlatan and confidence trickster and self declared 'most amazing man who ever lived' (was also apparently [[Merlin]] in a previous time, See ''Retromancer''). Has an acolyte named Rizla.
*Hairy Dave and Jungle John – these two brothers are local jobbing builders who are known for their wild coiffure.
*Archroy – former worker at the rubber factory who became a globe trotting master of the martial arts.
*Jennifer Naylor – Brentford's sexy lady librarian, later elevated to the town council.
*Young Master Robert – the brewery owner's son and the bane of Neville's existence.
*Leo Felix – Rastafarian who drives a tow truck.