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Explained here...Does anyone know where this is. I'd never heard of it. I have been doing some local research and it's a place where they used to execute people
It says somewhere along the Stafford to Sandyford Road, but doesn't give an exact place at all...Presumably, somewhere in the vicinity of the current prison.
http://staffscc.net/wppalmer/?page_id=236
'Meadow' would imply somewhere alongside Sandyford Brook, probably.
My current home is essentially the poltergeist house then.
That's interesting. Maybe it was there thenI lived in Sandyford Street as a youngster (since demolished due to salt mining) and my grandmother (1874-1961) used to insist that there had been gallows more or less on the site of our house (!). If ever a sash window suddenly dropped shut or a door slammed by itself she would say it was an “earthly manifestation of the tormented souls who’d died at the hands of the executioner”, or words to that effect. Grim stuff for a 6 year old to process.
She couldn’t explain to me why she didn’t have a reflection though. (ok, I made that last bit up, but the rest was true).