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Secret Lichfield

Neil Coley

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Description:In its long and rich history, Lichfield has been the home of many strange, unusual and little known events. In the bloody and tumultuous sieges during the Civil War of the 16th century, a top general was gunned down in the street, and in the years during which it was an important coaching city, accidents were common and highwaymen terrorized the surrounding area. Stories abound of awful punishments that were inflicted in Lichfield’s market square when individuals were flogged to within an inch of their lives and others were burned to death. A garrison town from the eighteenth century, Lichfield had many beer houses and taverns servicing the drinking needs of billeted soldiers and where houses of ill repute saw to their other, less savoury, requirements. With so many ancient buildings it is little wonder that legends of ghostly occurrences have been common with everything from laughing cavaliers haunting the streets to crying, supernatural babies disturbing people’s sleep. Famous residents with an unusual story include Samuel Johnson who was a sickly baby suffering from scrofula, a tubercular infection of the lymph glands, and partially blind and deaf, and who described himself as born ‘more dead than alive’ and Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, who invented a speaking machine built as a head containing a mouth with leather lips and a ribbon stretched between two pieces of wood which, when blown on, created a sound like the human voice.Secret Lichfield shines a light on some of the more unusual events that have occurred in this seemingly peaceful place and also looks at some of the eccentric, and in some causes downright weird, individuals who have lived in the city and the strange incidents associated with them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Lichfield. To get started finding Secret Lichfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In its long and rich history, Lichfield has been the home of many strange, unusual and little known events. In the bloody and tumultuous sieges during the Civil War of the 16th century, a top general was gunned down in the street, and in the years during which it was an important coaching city, accidents were common and highwaymen terrorized the surrounding area. Stories abound of awful punishments that were inflicted in Lichfield’s market square when individuals were flogged to within an inch of their lives and others were burned to death. A garrison town from the eighteenth century, Lichfield had many beer houses and taverns servicing the drinking needs of billeted soldiers and where houses of ill repute saw to their other, less savoury, requirements. With so many ancient buildings it is little wonder that legends of ghostly occurrences have been common with everything from laughing cavaliers haunting the streets to crying, supernatural babies disturbing people’s sleep. Famous residents with an unusual story include Samuel Johnson who was a sickly baby suffering from scrofula, a tubercular infection of the lymph glands, and partially blind and deaf, and who described himself as born ‘more dead than alive’ and Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, who invented a speaking machine built as a head containing a mouth with leather lips and a ribbon stretched between two pieces of wood which, when blown on, created a sound like the human voice.Secret Lichfield shines a light on some of the more unusual events that have occurred in this seemingly peaceful place and also looks at some of the eccentric, and in some causes downright weird, individuals who have lived in the city and the strange incidents associated with them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Lichfield. To get started finding Secret Lichfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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