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A Grim Almanac of Hampshire (Paperback, New)
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A Grim Almanac of Hampshire (Paperback, New)
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List price R473
Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R83 (18%)
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A Grim Almanac of Hampshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366
ghastly tales from the county's past, full of dreadful deeds,
macabre deaths, grisly accidents and strange occurrences. Among the
gruesome tales included here are the sinking in 1545 of the Mary
Rose, King Henry VIII's flagship, in the Solent, with the loss of
almost 700 men; the delivery of a foul-smelling basket to a servant
in Winchester in 1825, which on investigation was found to contain
the body of a stillborn baby; the story of Dame Alice Lisle,
allegedly the victim of a miscarriage of justice when executed in
1685, and whose ghost is said to haunt the lanes around her home at
Ringwood; Percy Brading, who killed himself on the day of his
father's funeral at Newport in 1935; and of the double murder of
Lydia and Norma Leakey in the New Forest in 1956. All these, plus
tales of executions, disasters, suicides, explosions, and accidents
by land, sea and air, and much more, are here - and if you have the
stomach for it, then read on . . .
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