Find out more about my fabulous guest Owen Staton and his podcast Time Between Times here: https://www.welshstoryteller.com/ Show notes and links to further reading General history of big cat sightings General summary: https://thewebinarvet.com/blog/british-big-cats-truth Interactive map of sightings across the UK: https://www.britishbigcats.org/sightings.php Jungle Cats Indian video about jungle cats https://youtu.be/s5G9d5ON9EA?si=V6CsFfO16xGjImYU Here's an article about the Shropshire… Continue reading Episode 7: The Big Cat of Biggleswade and Phantom Felines
Category: history
A ramble through bramble folklore
Lithograph by Anton Seder 1890, blackberries, raspberries and gold finch A few weeks back when visiting the secret sunflower field in Biggleswade I tasted one of the wild blackberries growing on surrounding bushes. At that point in the summer we'd had a lot of rain and I suspected that the blackberry would taste quite insipid… Continue reading A ramble through bramble folklore
The Potton Poisoner Part 2: Links, notes and transcript.
Link to podcast website Further Reading The Golden Eagle Inn Biggleswade Stratton Street 1900 Biggleswade History Society image Find out more about Stratton Street and it's history including the Golden Eagle Inn where Sarah spent her last night of freedom here at Biggleswade History Society: https://www.biggleswadehistory.org.uk/research/roads/stratton-street/ Inquest Juries A rare image of an inquest jury… Continue reading The Potton Poisoner Part 2: Links, notes and transcript.
Episode 4. Part One of the Potton Poisoner. Further reading and show transcript
Further reading Some further reading on the Potton Poisoner and Victorian era. Mentioned at the end of the episode here's a link to the story about the macabre auction item relating to the execution: About half way down this blog entry you'll find an examination of some of the newspaper stories I've used for this… Continue reading Episode 4. Part One of the Potton Poisoner. Further reading and show transcript
Transcript for Bonus Episode: Updates, New Spooky Story, News about the Podcast, and a trailer for the next episode
Intro over Weird in the Wade Theme Welcome to this bonus update episode of Weird in the Wade! A podcast about all that’s weird, wonderful and a little of kilter in the town of Biggleswade and surrounding area. Today’s bonus episode is a little different. I’m going to be revisiting some of our previous stories… Continue reading Transcript for Bonus Episode: Updates, New Spooky Story, News about the Podcast, and a trailer for the next episode
Potton Wood Photographs for episode three
The podcast website has all the links to where to listen here. Photographs taken on my visit to Potton wood on 26th April 2023 I took the photo below just after I set off, it gives a good indication of the elevation of Potton woods. It's just up from the bus stop! View across Bedfordshire… Continue reading Potton Wood Photographs for episode three
Bonus episode: Luton’s Noontide Hag
Show Notes and Transcript The monument to Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh, who has a link to our spooky tale from Luton, Bedfordshire! Some useful links The full poem, The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott can be read here. A news paper article from Aberdeen Live about John Henry Anderson, pioneering stage… Continue reading Bonus episode: Luton’s Noontide Hag
Bonus episode: New evidence about Biggleswade’s Great Fire
Transcript and show notes Intro Welcome to Weird in the Wade’s first bonus episode! Weird in the Wade is a podcast about all that’s weird, wonderful, and little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire. We cover the kinds of stories that make you pause and ponder, and will speak to you where… Continue reading Bonus episode: New evidence about Biggleswade’s Great Fire
Behind the scenes at weird in the wade!
My big ol' smiling face, in the bluebell woods at Cockayne Hatley (confusingly called Potton wood) Thank you! First of all I'd like to thank everyone who has listened to episode one of Weird in the Wade I thought I was being ambitious when I hoped I'd get 50 downloads in the first month and… Continue reading Behind the scenes at weird in the wade!
Photographs accompanying Episode One: The Haunted Pound Stretcher
Below are a series of photographs in or of the old Pound Stretcher building or it's current use as Jones' coffee shop and gym that accompany episode one of the podcast Weird in the Wade. Coffee upstairs in the coffee lounge, what would have been the office or storeroom area. The window which had previously… Continue reading Photographs accompanying Episode One: The Haunted Pound Stretcher
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