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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2015 23:40 |
Isn't it 'orbs' now - particularly the number of 'orbs', which apparently indicates the level of hauntedness. They're visible on digital cameras, they weren't on most old cameras. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Nov 2015 23:25 |
How do you measure the level of hauntedness? |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2015 22:55 |
There is a list of 10 most haunted places in the UK, and Friern Barnet Hospital isn't on it! (and no, I'm not 'Maggie' former Barnet MP) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 8 Nov 2015 22:18 |
No wonder you don't like New Southgate. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Nov 2015 21:18 |
So authentic too. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2015 21:10 |
That's so sad, Bob. |
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Denburybob | Report | 8 Nov 2015 19:59 |
My Great Grandfather worked at Friern Barnet hospital on the maintenance tea. He was also on their fire team. They had a serious fire there one night, and during the fire fighting was soaked to the skin, as a consequence of which he caught pneumonia and died. He is buried in the parish churchyard. |
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Kay???? | Report | 8 Nov 2015 18:28 |
Oh Rollo, |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Nov 2015 17:33 |
It is quite complicated isn't it? |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2015 17:22 |
Bit of a 'dive' then, Bob? :-( |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 8 Nov 2015 14:45 |
Despite being a listed building the Turrets has been demolished and a block of flats is being built on the site. However "The Banker's Draft" across the road is doing fine. Tha Banker's Draft was formerly a branch of the London & Provincial Bank. One of my lot was a director of L&P though based in Finsbury. |
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Denburybob | Report | 8 Nov 2015 12:59 |
I am glad the Turretts is shut. Last time I was in there I was beaten senseless by a mindless group of blokes, one of them hit me so hard over the head with a bottle that it smashed leaving me bleading and unconscious. I still have the scars. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 7 Nov 2015 13:44 |
:-D :-D :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 7 Nov 2015 13:38 |
It was George Coode. Crafty old git! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 7 Nov 2015 12:23 |
Was it Coode, or was it Mott??? :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 6 Nov 2015 19:54 |
George Coode. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 6 Nov 2015 16:07 |
Poor law administration was a prime source of bumbledum and petty corrution going all the way back to Speenhamland. In that it merely reflected how the country as a whole was run. The period was of course most famousy described by Dickens in "Oliver Twist". |
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Sharron | Report | 6 Nov 2015 15:03 |
As it happens, neither was anybody else at Marylebone workhouse, whether they had the good fortune to grace your tree or not, but the man in question was. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 6 Nov 2015 15:00 |
no of course it wasn't, by my time good 'ol N11 was usually known as New Southgate though of course the looming towers of Friern Barnet hosp. could not be missed. I don't think the phrase "Colney Hatch" has the same resonance with the denizens of Barnet, Edmonton and Hampstead that was once the case ;-) |
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Kay???? | Report | 6 Nov 2015 13:46 |
Oh Rollo you must have a connection to Joyous.......Nusre Waddingham is in her family tree. :-) |