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Surreal art of a tea party with a cat in a top, a woman and a violin player with a rose bush for a head.

Tea: its strange history and curious folklore

Dreams, gods, ghost guards, emperors, a lovestruck moon – tea has a rich and often macabre heritage of superstition and stories.

January 9, 2019 in History.
Display including fake bloodied leg, skull, dusty old books and lace netting

Finding our ghosts: at a Victorian séance

Finding ghosts and spirits at a Victorian séance in one of Britian’s oldest music halls.

November 7, 2018 in Glasgow, History, Scotland.
Old black and white photo of people boarding a tram in Glasgow

Nightwalking, Junkfood Junction and the future King of Scotland

Nightwalking’s early subversive reputation, a night stroll down Junkfood Junction and meeting the future King of Scotland.  

January 3, 2018 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Crewwe station at night with empty platforms

A lost world at Crewe Station

Late Sunday night and Crewe Station is empty and deserted. But there is a lost world here, filled with the ghosts from a bygone era of variety theatre.

January 30, 2017 in History, Travel, Uncategorized.
Sandwood Bay looking north

Is this Britain’s most beautiful (and haunted) beach?

Ssandwood-bayandwood Bay in north Scotland is famous for its remote beauty. It’s also a place of legend, shipwrecks, fugitives and ghosts.

June 8, 2016 in Scotland, Travel.
Tree in the fog

Ghosts, fog and Bedlam: country night-walking

Night walking a country lane, exploring local Shropshire ghosts and watching a winter sunrise on the eerie Titterstone Clee Hill.

March 18, 2015 in Uncategorized.

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