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While metal detecting this morning in South Staffordshire, I unearthed an example of the 1812 Birmingham Workhouse Token (depicted below). Without thinking, I had instantly plunged my example into a tub of olive oil (in order to clean it), on returning home, so I've had to 'borrow' a picture...

Hi Glynis - I was just wondering if I'd ever spoken to you previously somewhere, as I did interview a few, ex-staff members at Edwards some years back(?) I have to say that was such a superb place to visit........ not just because of some excellent music and groups, of course - laugh!!! - but...

Hi Big Gee, Hopefully, I should have just sent the Bugle article over to you by PM(?) The 'Ponda' was rather popular with some of the older generations of Willenhall residents a few years back. After seeing the place internally, I'd long wondered just how someone came up with the idea of...

Hi Astonian. To be honest matey, I'm not sure whether I'd be terribly happy to experience such a thing!? (Most people say I'm 'touched' enough, as it is!! Laugh!!!) Seriously though, I've sort of happily slipped into the role of 'experience-less-onlooker' where the paranormal is concerned...

Hi Big Gee! 'Bum pinching' appears to have become a frequent feature of a lot of hauntings over recent decades (though, to be honest, I can't really recall reading / hearing much about it prior to that?) One case we dealt with a few years ago - a 'heavy metal' nightclub in Willenhall - seems...

Well - I have to admit that everything has gone exceptionally quiet with regards to general spookiness over the past 12 months or so. The West Midlands Ghost Club members have had a lot of different things going on - new non-ghost projects and concerns, etc - so that in itself has quite...

Just a brief note to say - should anyone be interested - that I'm currently re-working a few of our Archive pages on the web site and posting up new stuff, etc. https://www.westmidlandsghostclub.com/ New pages are marked as 'New' in the index, of course! Laugh! On the Hopwas Wood front -...

I'm still here - sporadically!!! Laugh, laugh!!!!

Ooooh Lordy - where to start.....??? Laugh, laugh!!!! Most of these bands I've seen numerous times over the years.... Jethro Tull Alice Cooper Ozzy Osbourne Iron Maiden Rush Gary Moore Dio Metallica Guns and Roses Dave Lee Roth Megadeth Bon Jovi Magnum Seth Lakeman Marillion Motley...

What tickled me about the Station Hotel is that they began charging more money (I think it was a tenner) for rooms situated on the 'haunted landing'!! Laugh, laugh!!! I don't know if they still do this, but a lot of the stories about the site involve unsuspecting people 'fleeing in terror'...

Hi Patricia, Therein lies the crux of the situation, I'm afraid........ paying for investigations. This had been the thin end of the wedge with regards to the death of ghost research, unfortunately. We have a strict policy of never paying for an investigation......... but, I guess, this is the...

Hi Patricia, The key failing with most paranormal groups these days is just what you have illustrated above.......: all meetings and no cases. I couldn't tell you how many emails and letters I've received over the years that basically begin with the sentiments: "We've set up a paranormal...

There are hoards being turned up by metal detectorists quite regularly Maxwell! Laugh!!! One of my favourites is the Frome Hoard, which, if I'm honest, strikes me as a much more fascinating haul than our Staffs offering (Ooops, I'll be burned in effigy for saying that by some!!! Laugh!!)...

Hi Wendy, I'd always fancied having a bash at detecting, for as long as I can remember.... and I must admit that it's only through the kindness of a good friend that I can 'indulge myself' even now! Laugh!!! A few friends of mine 'field walk' - something I've tried briefly myself at times -...

Indeed, the pursuit is verboten in a lot of countries, it seems..... but, given some of the problems that have arisen from detecting at times, I think this is probably quite understandable, if I'm honest! Laugh!! It has to be said that there isn't much that can be done to people who haven't...

Thanks Jean..... As intimated - it's only a worthless (from monetary point of view) button at the end of the day, but the joy for me ('after' wobbling around the fields for hours on end in the fresh air, of course... laugh!!!) is seeing if I can place such, once commonplace, objects in some...

I happened to be speaking with someone last night who basically scoffed at the pursuit of metal detecting, dubbing all such practitioners as 'saddo-types', wandering around fields in all weathers in the hope of digging up bits of scrap and so forth!! (and the chap concerned claimed to have...

It does make you wonder how frequently this sort of thing went on..... abortion or peculiar burial rites surrounding (relatively) innocent still-birth, etc, for that matter. As for dates for the former, I saw a documentary mention on the following a brief while ago..... It makes grim reading...

Ahhh - bless you for the info. Mike. Absolutely fascinating stuff!!! I thought the 'liquor' details were fantastic!!! Laugh, laugh!!! Imagine speaking with such candour these days, eh? Laugh!! All the best.

Another matter of interest which gave rise from the intro. to Showells - thanks again - is the following: "1864, while excavations were being made in the old "Castle Yard," in High Street the skeletons of three human beings were found in a huddled position about 2-1/2 ft. from...