There's an understandable mystery concerning many traditional folk songs. Who wrote them and why? And what age are they? If they are re...

   This post, like many others, might be categorised as a provisional piece, based as it is on a limited amount of information in my possess...

I wrote not long ago about a ghost which haunted Newmanswalls House in Montrose . There was no solution to the rather short tradition of a g...

 Most people have heard of Burke and Hare and their nefarious way of ensuring that the best corpses were provided for the keen medical anato...

  This article details some information about the naval press gangs which were a real and feared feature of coastal communities for many ge...

 There is a forlorness to lost places which lingers long after they have vanished, though traditions can be left behind. Newmans Walls House...

   As is the way with this blog, continuations of previous posts often take an extremely long time since the previous parts.  Fairs and Mark...