Oh, and the simulacrum on page 71 purporting to be a hooded and cowled figure on Simonsway, Manchester. I've just been "driving" up and down Simonsway on Google Maps loooking for the location. it's a long, long road, but much of it is light industrial or retail and only a few blocks of housing fit the type shown in the picture. And there's an electrical support pole for the Manchester Metro in shot (the tramway runs just out of sight on the left of the published pic) which defines the side of the road you need to be looking at. Travel down Simonsway on Google Street View with the Metro tram line on your LEFT. Watch the buildings on your RIGHT. Now the Google Maps images were taken in April 2015 with far better light than prevailed in Jan 2016. (albeit from a higher angle than you'd get in a car). You can see, just next to what looks like a public footpath meeting the main road which is protected by railings and barriers, a group of houses corresponding to those in the simulacrum shot. In bright spring sunshine, it becomes easy to see the "body" of the cowled monk is a tree, or bush, of the weeping willow variety overhanging a high wall. In the lighting conditions of January 2016, the wall and the tree became one indeterminate dark blob. And the "bag" the spectre was carrying, in this light, is part of the barrier there to prevent kids and cyclists running straight off the footpath into a very busy road. But as the editor says, "we may never know for certain"
