Lecture to Manchester Metropolitan University Students

Students from Finland, Greece, Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain (and others I think) at MMU Crewe campus to whom I gave a talk on on Crewe history earlier in January.

Weekly Trinity Mirror Newspaper Column - "The Unexplained"

Delighted to be cooking up regular column entries for Trinity Mirror Newspapers in Cheshire and North Wales. Entitled "The Unexplained" it will deal with a range of haunted places, intriguing landscape features, oddities, curiosities, archaeology, built heritage, the historic environment and all manner of ancient sites and historic places.

Based with the online editions, they may make it into the respective print edition on occasion. If you wish to see it in the online edition nearest you, see the following links:

• Crewe Chronicle
• Chester Chronicle 
• Ellesmere Port Pioneer 
• Flintshire Chronicle 
• North Wales Daily Post

With BBC Radio Stoke

With many thanks to BBC Radio Stoke who had me in the studio in Hanley early last Saturday morning talking about Ghost Tours. Part of Lee Thomas' schedule on the Saturday Breakfast.

In the Tunnel

Another shot from Mike Mayer taken last Halloween, in the tunnel at Crewe Station. Just love the ambience down there, and the trains pounding the tracks above, and the deep resonant thuds below.

Picture from the Top

Below is a testimonial from one of the guests on the Halloween Tours on Crewe Statio; to the left, the first of one of his pictures taken during the tour. It shows Crewe Station as from the building on Platform 12 and 13. It's rather beautiful, don't you think!

"Hi,

Firstly thanks for the amazing tour last night, absolutely fascinating and very engaging stories. Also great to see parts of the station I use so often yet have never seen before, just brilliant, thanks.

Secondly I have included some pics for you, hope you like them, not amazing but if you want the hi-res versions then just let me know!


Thanks again, Mike Mayer."

On BBC Radio Stoke

History and Mystery Tours' Tim Prevett, will be on BBC Radio Stoke around midday on Monday 31st October - Halloween. It will be broadcasting an interview recorded in a tunnel on Crewe Station with Lamont Howie.

Strange at Crewe... Very strange.

On the last Strange at Crewe - Crewe Station Ghost Tour, we were rather baffled by this. If you're going to do graffiti or mysterious scrawlings, then why not do it in a rather erudite and intelligent manner like these equations we found on the floor in a disused room between platforms 12 and 13? Much better than "I woz ere" you can often get. Back in there again for Halloween Ghost Tours on Monday 31st, so will get some better pictures and try to crack the equations next week...