A multi award winning podcast about all that's weird, wonderful and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
Below is the latest photograph I took in the lovely coffee shop which is where the old Pound Stretcher offices used to be, a part of the building that was said to be particularly haunted by Aggie the poltergeist. As the wonderful story teller Owen Staton said on Twitter, this must be a much nicer… Continue reading Photographs for Bonus Update Episode
Find episodes and links to where to listen on the pod website here. Links Below are various links to information mentioned in this month's episode: What's Haunting Potton Wood? Paul’s blog Below is the link to Paul's blog about his visit to Potton Woods: https://www.modquokka.com/single-post/2018/04/30/potton-wood-and-the-ghosts-of-airmen Plane crash Graham Hague’s fabulous website, a cornucopia of historical… Continue reading Links to further reading, show notes and transcript for episode three: What’s Haunting Potton Wood?
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
Below you'll find the transcript for the Flying Saucers Over Biggleswade episode but here are some links to further information about the great flying saucer hoax, and other useful reading. Here's a link to information about the UFO monument in Frank Russell's honour in Biggleswade pictured below. There's also this article in the Comet all… Continue reading Show Transcript and Notes: Flying Saucers Over Biggleswade
To accompany this week's mini episode about the Grey Lady of Silsoe I thought I'd share some photographs that I took on the morning whilst I recorded birdsong audio for the episode. Wrest Park gardens just after dawn I love the light in the image above taken just before 6AM. Wrest Park is full of… Continue reading Photographs from Wrest Park and Silsoe to accompany the Grey Lady mini episode
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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