Spooky goings on over at Ed’s place…
By the time you are reading this, children all over the country will be up and getting ready for Halloween, be it Dressing up, Trick or Treating or a visit to the Bonfire, Samhain is well and truly underway. So welcome to the first annual SPOOKTACULAR Challenge. It has been just over a month in the making and boy do we have some fantastic places to show you. Perhaps it is no coincidence, but there are 13 sites to explore, (Or maybe its not?). For some 1 is an unlucky number. Lets hope that is not the case here. Each one has its own individual spooky association and history which I hope that you enjoy as much as I have. So before we proceed, I have to give a special big THANK YOU to each and every contributor whom has made this challenge possible.
First up we travel down to…
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I liked the Victorian Water Pump station photographed on Ed’s site. That’s an interestingly odd-shaped building on any day of the year.
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You have to love Victorian civic pride… they built some amazing and completely incongruous things…
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They were a funny bunch, the Victorians. Very admirable in some ways, a bit loopy in others. They did make some interesting buildings, though.
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Both ends of the pendulum at once. There is a superb old mill in my home town… up in Yorkshire… built as a replica of an Egyptian temple.
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That’s great! Exactly the kind of thing I mean. 🙂
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There are some fantastic remnants of that kind of whimsy… or ego, I’m never sure which.
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I guess a little of both. 🙂
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I think you are right 🙂
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