Ghostly Visitations in Ferrestone Road - 1921 Interesting article in today s Times in its Archive series dated February 17, 1921.
Concerns ghostly visitations reported in February 1921 in a house at 8 Ferrestone Road. An 11 year old boy was at the centre of the manifestations. Crockery, food, brushes and other small objects flying off shelves and the table. Coal and crockery flying about. The sudden elevation of the child; a mahogany table rising 2 feet.
The most terrifying experience was when an apparition of the boy s mother appeared to the boy and his brother in the his bedroom - she had died of consumption the previous April.
The Hornsey Glebe
I came across the above engraving of Hornsey church recently. The precise composition is one I hadn t previously seen and this new perspective made me think anew about what the land in the foreground was.
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glebe (also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson s close) is an area of land within a parish used to support the parish vicar or rector.
The glebe lands belonging to St Mary s Church in Hornsey stretched up the hill behind the church to roughly where Church Path connects to Tottenham Lane today, next to the McCafferty s pub (Former Hope and Anchor). They are what we can see, surviving in pastoral use, still in the 1876 engraving.