A multi award winning podcast about all that's weird, wonderful and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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!
Below you'll find the transcript for episode One of Weird in the Wade: the haunted pound stretcher. Please see additional posts for photographs and images. Any text in blue is additional material cut from the broadcast podcast purely for time saving reasons. Some of which will be reflected elsewhere in the podcast but in a… Continue reading Episode One: The haunted pound stretcher transcript
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