The landlord of an inn near Bletchington Station provided lodgings for the platelayers, although he found it queer that they did not stay in their huts at the railway.
He gave the First Doctor and his "granddaughter" Dodo Chaplet rooms and told them about the rumours of a beast. The next morning, he told Dodo that he had not seen the Doctor and later passed on her message to him, letting him know that she had gone to the railway. (AUDIO: The Horror at Bletchington Station)