Mabel Constanduros

Who was Mabel Constanduros?

Mabel Constanduros, birth name Mabel Tilling, was an English actress and screenwriter. She achieved fame playing Mrs.Buggins on the radio programme The Buggins Family, which ran from 1928 to 1948. She played Earthy Mangold in the popular Worzel Gummidge radio serial on the BBC Children's Hour after World War II. As a writer, she co-wrote 29 Acacia Avenue with her nephew Denis Constanduros.

Mabel was the daughter of Richard Tilling, managing director of the Thomas Tilling bus company.