Tag Archives: Gresford

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

Posted on 20/04/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – April 2022 She knew now what had happened to her. She was afraid of Harding Powell; and it was her fear that had cried to her to go, to get away from him. The awful thing was … Continue reading →

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Abandoned in the Woods: Part 2, Horsley Hall

Posted on 11/10/2021 by Bobby Seal

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood*   Beyond the northern edge of the derelict Royal Pioneer Corps camp we visited in Part 1, the way through the wood is … Continue reading →

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A Garden Village

Posted on 27/09/2021 by Bobby Seal

In 1913 the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust proposed an innovative new housing scheme in Wrexham; the first of its kind in Wales. Taking as their inspiration similar schemes at Port Sunlight on the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham, … Continue reading →

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May Sinclair at Gresford

Posted on 30/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Either the operation or the pain, going on and on, stabbing with sharper and sharper knives; cutting in deeper; all their care, the antiseptics, the restoratives, dragging it out, giving it more time to torture her. May Sinclair – Life … Continue reading →

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A Drift on Wat’s Dyke

Posted on 14/11/2012 by Bobby Seal

Swathed bodies in the long ditch; one eye upstaring. It is safe to presume, here, the king’s anger. He reigned forty years. Seasons touched and retouched the soil.  Heathland, new-made watermeadow. Charlock, marsh-marigold. Crepitant oak forest where the boar furrowed … Continue reading →

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