Bench On Friday

Recycled Plastic Park Bench

Hyde Park

Cheshire

Sky Watch Post

This is one of a series of pictures that Jane took sometime early last summer in Derbyshire. If you have taken part in Sky Watch for the last year you might recognise this view or at least the horses from the Sky Watch Header and Icons. We have not had many days like this so far this year but we are still hopeful.....

Why not join in with Sky Watch this week..... or show support by visiting and leaving a comment or two. You will not be disapointed with the Sky shots on view.

World In Miniature Part 2

Lichen & Mosses

World In Miniature

Cup Lichen

Step Back In Time

THREE STAGS HEAD

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Three Stags Head is a pub all on it's own in more ways than one... I have never been in a pub like it... click the link above to see just what I mean... and please if ever you find yourself in this area at the weekend drop in...... it's like stepping back to time long gone. But beware... turn off your mobile phones as they are not welcome.. oh! and do not ask for a pint of lager as you will be shown the door ha! This pub is to be found in WARDLOW and one could so easily miss it..... but I'm glad we didn't.

Wardlow Mires is famed as the last place a person was Gibbeted in England, after the murderer Anthony Lingard, was executed at Derby in 1815, and placed in the nearby Gibbet. Anthony Lingard was found guilty of the murder of a 70 year-old widow Hannah Oliver, who kept a toll-bar cottage opposite the inn. He broke into the cottage in the dead of night on Sunday 15th January 1815, he then strangled the widow with a scarf and robbed her of her money and a pair of red leather shoes. These shoes proved to be his downfall His girlfriend disliked the shoes, and more so the way he had come about them. She reported him to the police who found the red shoes hidden at Lingards home. The cobbler, Samuel Marsden from nearby Stoney Middleton, identified them as the pair he made for Hannah Oliver. Strange as it seems this was confirmed by a piece of packing he had used in the heel of one of the shoes on which were printed the words, `commit no crime’.
Lingard was hanged at Derby on March 28th 1815, and as was the custom back then, his corpse was hung close to the scene of the crime, in Gibbet Field at Wardlow. A short walk for the inn.