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I seem to remember Denis Norden hosting an episode of blooper-fest It'll Be All Right On the Night from there, purely because he liked to call bloopers "cock-ups".
There's a gathering of houses (barely even a hamlet) on the Fen in Lincolnshire called Tongue End.
It's in good taste, actually.I heard the place's a tip.
I have probably mentioned this before, but in Lancaster there is Golgotha Heights. At one point it is supposed to be near where the gallows were when they were on the moor above the city.
Reminds me of the Gog Magog hills near Cambridge.I have probably mentioned this before, but in Lancaster there is Golgotha Heights. At one point it is supposed to be near where the gallows were when they were on the moor above the city.
Reminds me of the Gog Magog hills near Cambridge.
Apparently, where the city of Troy was...
Gloucestrian: Isn't the english word troll just from the scandinavian word troll?
Then I suggest that you form a posse to rout the cultists who worship it, and then destroy it with fire. If you don't, the damn things just keep spreading.There’s a Braintree in Essex
I'm not sure about the theft or the gallows TBH as I am originally from the Preston area.
You're related to a saint?They topped a distant relative of mine there,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Barlow
Some of his bits are spread about the country and I keep thinking I should try to visit,
a barbaric way to go, at the very least damned unsporting on the part of authority.
Was that a labyrinth?Apparently, where the city of Troy was...
Apparently, where the city of Troy was...
The place that launched a thousand quips.They built several Troys, different locations.
If at first you don't succeed, Troy, Troy, and Troy again.
Don't ever think about it till the mention of the gallows at Lancaster remindedYou're related to a saint?
That's quite a unique something to chat about at dinner parties!
Bet that's a noisy place.Not macabre but still remarkable: Grinder, Norway:
(Seen while searching for a traffic webcam.)
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It got its name from a farm in the area. So it's probably an old family name.Not macabre but still remarkable: Grinder, Norway:
(Seen while searching for a traffic webcam.)
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There is a Redhills lane in Durham, supposedly named after it ran red with the blood of Scottish soldiers after the battle of Neville’s Cross
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this thread before....reminds me of "Hob Lane" in Quatermass and the pit...I think there's one of those on the outskirts of Bury somewhere. Oh, and there's Boggart Hole Clough...strange name for a park...
A bit late...
This thread seems to have returned after a long pause and as I was flipping through the earlier posts I spotted this
It reminded me of something. There are at least two Dangerous Corners in Lancashire one near Atherton just outside Wigan, the other also near Appley Bridge, again not far from Wigan. There is legend attached to one of them, I’m not sure which, that goes something like this:
A long time ago a countryman took a young wife. Suddenly, after a few happy years of marriage the wife fell ill and died.
On the way to the graveyard, as the hearse rounded the corner, the horse started, the driver jerked the hearse, an the coffin slid to the ground and burst open at the feet of the mourning husband who was following behind.
His wife stirred, then woke, the countryman was overjoyed – his wife wasn’t dead but had fallen into a deep trance, from which the shock of the fall had woken her
They returned home and spent many more happy years together. Eventually in her old age the wife died.
Once more the husband followed the hearse to graveyard.
As they rounded the corner the husband and other mourners heard a spectral voice:
‘Take care, coachman, for this is a DANGEROUS CORNER.’