The book Rambles Round Willow Farm by Arthur O. Cooke was published before the First World War and tells of life on a farm in the West Country. Written for children, along with a series of other countryside books, the author introduces youngsters to rural life away from the large towns and cities. For us, […]
Here is another yarn from the master storyteller, Phillip Mercer, and his Tales of Olde Sussex. This account is based around Heathfield in East Sussex in 1782. Maro Lombardi is an Italian artist who specialises in portraiture. There is something magical about his vibrant paints, yet there is also something tragic too. ——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT […]
The legend told of an old woman that turned travellers into stone so that she could build a house for herself, and so it was … Here I present another of Philip Mercer’s many yarns from Tales of Olde Sussex published in 1834 – a gruesome murder from a thieving stonemason’s apprentice in Five oaks, […]
When a rich pompous art collector builds himself a secret room in his mansion he doesn’t expect interference from the other side. When I am unable to get out to explorer I bring stories from past. I hope you enjoy them.So here is another story from Tales of Olde Sussex by Phillip Mercer published in […]
I am telling the story of Molly who lived in the mid 17th Century in Rudgwick, West Sussex, who is supposed to have kept her husbands severed head in a large earthenware pot. This is another of the Takes Of Olde Sussex by Philip Mercer that Ihave exploring. In a previous video I go in […]
When a tailor sells his old rambling house on Horsham Common he requires one stipulation from the potential buyers. Phillip Mercer collected many ghost stories from his parishioners while he worked in Sussex as a Curate at the beginning of the 19th century. He published these along with other strange and unsettling accounts in a […]