PlagueRider
It's just a flesh wound
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Ooo oooooo can I come along???? :hello:
Within hours, Marlowe was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas at Deptford Green, just behind Creek Road. And Frezer was charged with only a breech [sic] of the peace.
The human skull and bones sitting on the wall of St.Nicholas's, known to locals as the sailors church, were adopted by pirates as the symbol on their flag, the Skull and Cross Bones.
The Handbook Guide to London Murder! Horror!
Isn't it a common old wive's tale that people won't dig up plague pits for fear of catching the ol' buboes? Surely thats one big silly superstition....
Benjamin Jesty is a distant relation of mine and comes from the village next to the one where I grew up.escargot said:Please don't start me on the subject of vaccinations. One of my heroes is Edward Jenner, the 'cowpox doctor', and I find the subject fascinating.
Did you know-
The process of introducing a live but harmless infection into a patient to protect them from a more dangerous one is called 'vaccination' in honour of its first recorded medical use with cowpox, 'vaccus' being Latin for 'cow'.
Told you not to start me off.![]()
theyithian said:This topic came up while talking with my Dad in a tapas bar in Blackheath a few days back. Has anybody got a link to any more details on this supposed Plague pit beneath the heath? Dates? Numbers?
Finsbury circus. Under the french boules green.