Found this very Victorian account of Tamworth on googlebooks called Town and Castle, by Charles Ferrers, from 1845(Click on the title to follow the link) It has a wealth of detail in where it mixes detailed history, personal accounts of discovery, local hearsay and Victorian morals/judgement. For example just love the bit in the extract [...]
Archive for December, 2010
The crypt
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Musings, Underground, tagged Tamworth, underground, urban legends on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
beneath country houses and abbeys
Posted in Underground, tagged abandoned, dissappeared, Fisherwick, Packington, Polesworth, underground, woods on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Below are a few more underground bits and pieces in the area. They all share in common, the fact that they are, as it says in the title, underground spaces beneath country houses and religious places. Country houses as well as religious institutions had the money, influence and power to do things on a grander [...]
Dark cellars
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Underground, tagged abandoned, dissappeared, Hopwas, underground on December 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Woodhouse is back as the dignified representative of this latest underground themed post! UKurbex put the pictures below on their website showing the pictures they bravely took of the cellars of the now probably flattened Woodhouse, Hopwas(see earlier posts for more details) These photos are an invaluable testament as far as I know there [...]
Glasgote Reservoir
Posted in Underground, tagged Glascote, housing estates, Tamworth, underground on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While googling info for the underground Tamworth timehikes series , came across this very Lovecraftesque information about a desolute field somewhere in Staffordshire It just needs some ´race of half humans´ and Clhutlhu overtones and that’s it. It´s taken from a history of Staffordshire By Dr Plot written in the late 18th century, here´s the [...]
