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Like many older men I don't have much of a sense of smell. This is often a blessing. I have smelled tallow candles, so if Aston Hall...

it didnt smell of anything other than the usual smell of an historial building when i was last there which was about 2008 i think lyn

I think you are right Alan! My parents never explained any of that to me and therefore I did not worry about it. “What you don’t know...

I forgot about that dead turtle! I can’t remember being bothered about a smell. I always enjoy the kitchens / servants quarters in...

Dry rot perhaps? I visited many times in the early 1990s and didn't smell anything particularly. But I hope they have dealt with any rot...

I thought the smell in the kitchen was revolting (c1960s) a smell that I assumed came from the dead turtle hanging on the wall, but it...

I went to one when I was about six or seven (1961- 62) with my Mom and Aunty and baby cousin - the line was very long, couldn't really...

Lady P's mention of the mummy makes me thing of "wee willie winky" an the monsters beneath the bed. I do not recall being afraid of...

My Mom and Mother in law (who grew up very near to the hall) both mentioned 'Shaggy'. Apparently this was the mummy in the museum which...

George Snook married Mary Ann Tovey in 1862. He married Eizabeth in 1877

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/mummy-at-the-hall.21858/#post-204979...

i dont like the smell i think it pongs of death last time i went in there around 50s i felt very uneasy:cold_sweat::eek::eek:

there is a haunted hall candlelight tour as well but i have to say that aston hall do not seem to be putting many of these tours on...

I used to think that if you had been to the Botanics you had seen them. How wrong I was. I discovered a few years ago that if you go...

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