Interested in the ghostlore of the Mercian region; deviant dispatch and burial practices / rites; Church Crawler; BPD.
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Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. I wrote this short audio piece as part of my MA course & my good friend Owen Staton provided the voice.
Links to the charity are in shownotes.
#Aberfan @WalesOnline #wales #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/7MH… – at Wivenhoe, England
are fairly recent additions... I'd ordered the 'Haunted Derby' one from online - last year, or, maybe, earlier this year - but the 'Haunted Derbyshire' was a surprise charity shop buy from a couple of yrs back!
I say 'surprise', as I'd looked on their bookshelves - finding
nothing of interest - and had been in the process of leaving, when I spied the 'skull' (on the cover)... actually on the shop counter!? Completely alone in the place - even the staff were all in the rear of the premises - I'd wondered why the book was just 'lying there' and
Just had a quick look at the shelves and, strangely, these are the only books I can see for Derbyshire!? (Except for the 2 that arrived a few days back).😬👍 @BrianStringfel1 @cannykirks
The two booklets have been in my collection for many years, but the Wayne Anthony books
Yet another weird coincidence... but, a day or so after I watched the episode of 'Baby', from the 70's series 'Beasts', I spotted this almost identical 'jar' - pic 4 - in a fireplace at the town museum, in Bakewell!?😬🤨👍
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The Queslett Road - Great Barr. (G.B. Hall and Park lying off to the left of shot, through the trees).
A woman once contacted me to say that - some years ago - she and her mother were driving along this stretch of road, in the middle of the day, approaching the M6 Motorway
front of them, when they first spied him... though something about him instantly caught their attention!?
The figure, they said, was dressed in 'period costume' - something akin to garb from the 1700's, perhaps - with knee-length breeches and a mop of long, dark, unkempt hair
St. Margaret's Psychiatric Hospital - Great Barr. @Litosixx
My apologies for the first two pics - as it was late on a terribly overcast day when I took them - but this is, basically, what you will see if you visit the asylum site today... Pretty-much ALL of the old complex was
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in image one - roughly centre of pic - you can just about see the tower also seen at centre of pic 3... as this was the only feature of the old hospital that was kept and incorporated into the modern housing estate.
As a small, 'ghostly' aside: to the left of shot one, when the
St. Lawrence's Church - Eyam.
I'd literally been ready to leave the church when I happened to turn and spy this brass plaque 'glinting at me' from a distant column...
Investigating, I fell instantly in love with this delightful remnant of the 18th Cent. - marking the passing
