Just watched the episode of Lillies BBC1. Would like to know more about the 'Tallyman'.?

Answer 1

Well, do some research then.
You're obviously on the internet, so go to google or wikipedia.

Answer 2

Ive always been lead to believe that the Tallyman is a loan shark who lends u money or u can buy items from on tick. But from how it was portrayed in Lillies last night, it was as if he's a legal person who makes sure that rented houses only have a certain amount of people in them to stop diseases spreading. As years and years ago, there was lots of overcrowding in houses as people couldnt afford to live as nuclear families so diseases spread very easily. That was why council houses wore made to stop people living on top of each other. Also from Lillies it seemed that the Tallyman would take how many people who u had over in your house and stick them in an orphanage or old peoples home.

Answer 3

At the end of the First World War, Lloyd George promised a land “fit for heroes”. Instead, thousands of soldiers returned home to overcrowded slums with no running water or sanitation, and where — without a welfare state — neighbours had to rely on each other in times of crisis. In tonight’s episode of this excellent drama series, a mother and father die of scarlet fever, leaving behind seven young children.

Without succumbing either to mawkish sentimentality or relentless gloom, the episode describes what becomes of them; in particular, how the neighbourhood deals with the dreaded “tallyman” — the tyrannical health official who carried out housing inspections in the middle of the night and had the authority to break up families.

Answer 4

there are many meanings of Tallyman

Tallyman
(A). A travelling draper who calls at private houses to sell wares on the tally system - that is, part payment on account, and other parts when the man calls again

Gombeen Man
(The). A tallyman; a village usurer; a money-lender. The word is of Irish extraction.

To live tally is to live unwed as man and wife. A tally-woman is a concubine, and a tally-man is the man who keeps a mistress. These expressions are quite common in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.


the following link takes you to a sherlock holmes script about the Tally Man:
http://www.batteredsuitcase.co.uk/tallyman2.html


this link takes you to information about the DC comic character Tallyman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallyman


the information below is about a book entitled the Tallyman:

The Tallyman (Hardback) - Bill Knox
ISBN: 1841199435
Published: Nov 2004
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224

Beware the Tallyman, a merciless predator...Somewhere in the Millside district of Glasgow a tallyman - an unlicensed loan shark - is preying on people in desperate financial straits. He loans them cash at rates they cannot hope to pay back - and then demands various services in kind. And these 'services' make the Tallyman a one-man crime wave. It's a tough, depressing case for Inspectors Thane and Moss, especially after one of Thane's close friends is found dead - a victim of the brutal moneylender. And so it takes all of Thane's hot-headed drive and Moss's cool determination to flush out the Tallyman - but neither of them is prepared for the final violent confrontation in the heart of Scotland's wild, craggy highlands.


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Beware the Tallyman, a merciless predator... Somewhere in the Millside district of Glasgow a tallyman - an unlicensed loan shark - is preying on people in desperate financial straits. He loans them cash at rates they cannot hope to pay back - and then demands various services in kind.

this link is information about the tv show lilies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilies_%28BBC_TV_series%29