The bench of love.
Hoping to revisit #HarrowWeald & Co this week to continue investigation into the disappearance of the haunted bench on corner of Weald Lane. Doubt there's anything uncanny behind it. More likely its down to the council. #benchland
The Prospect of Whitby as seen from the river side. Photo: Chrissie Demant
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#ProspectofWhitby (beware of the ghost of Bloody Jeffries, the murder vicar of Ratcliffe wharf (if he's stretching his legs) and the man-squid of Pelican Stairs. #Wapping - none more haunted (possible exception: #HarrowWeald)
Welcome to Futtocks End
Grimsdyke guest stars as Futtocks End in Ronnie Barker's "of its time" comedy.
Grimsdyke from the present day beer garden
Lunch in the grounds.
#GrimsDyke, #HarrowWeald, starred as #FuttocksEnd in Ronnie Barker's mildly ribald, dialogue-free 1970 comedy of same name. "You too will see what the lecherous butler saw."
Arthur Grimsdyke (Peter Cushing) has risen from the grave; 'Tales from the Crypt,' 1972
.... This scene from #TalesfromtheCrypt might almost be dramatic reconstruction of his return from grave. Note name on tombstone. #HarrowWeald #GrimsDyke
The Boxtree, Harrow Weald. Another local lost (it's since been converted into flats).
#HauntedPubs of #HarrowWeald. The Boxtree opened 1957, closed 2008, amid allegations of on-premise drug-dealing, dogging in car park, mysterious CCTV malfunction — in short, the same accusations as would later be resurrected versus the Case is Altered, Old Redding.
View of shops from bench on Weald Lane, Harrow Weald. Wellcare Pharmacy since gone (as has bench).
Looking back. Weald Lane, #HarrowWeald 3 May 2021.
Now the Pharmacy's gone and the ghost's bench is missing in action #disappearingworldofhauntedbenchproject
The Case is Altered, Old Redding, 3 June 2025. © Gloomy Sundae/ Marion Bondage Photo archive.
The Case is Altered, Old Redding, 3 June 2025. © Gloomy Sundae/ Marion Bondage Photo archive.
Finally rained again yesterday so, as threatened, revisited St Marys churchyard, #Harrow, Old Redding, #Grimsdyke, #HarrowWeald & other fave haunts of mine and other ghosts. 'Case is Altered' still locked down: stopped off for rest and a can outside anyhow. #tranquility.
Strong canvass speaking to residents of #harrowweald Frustration with current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Strong support for @conservatives.bsky.social
Joined by MP Bob Blackman and local cllrs Stephen Greek and Ramji Chauhan
#harroweast #torydoorstep
Peter Cushing approaching the side door of 'The Case is Altered'. Old Redding, in 'The Blood Beast Terror', 1968.
'The Case is Altered' Old Redding, #HarrowWeald guest stars in 'The Blood Beast Terror,' 1968. 'The Case' also makes a more substantial appearance in 'The Haunted House of Horror' (1969)
Rebel, the dog of Dem. 🖤
... there was an Alsatian who died there and some say his soul is not at rest." Harrow Observer, 10 Sept 1976 #StanmoreMacabre #Haunted #HarrowWeald
NB, #phantomdog stunt double in photo is Rebel [RIP]. 🖤
A vintage car approaches Stanmore Hall in a scene from 'The Abominable Dr. Phibes'
Stanmore Hall being groovy in 'The abominable Dr. Phibes.' what with 'Cry of the Banshee's #Grimsdyke setting #HarrowWeald was like a second home to #VincentPrice late 60s/early 70s. #DrPhibes #HauntedBenchland
Hi Bunika. This was how the reputedly #hauntedbench of #HarrowWeald looked on g**gl* view, Autumn 2002.
Grims Dyke as St Ursula's convent, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 1968
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 1968
Grims Dyke as St Ursula's convent, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 1968
#Grimsdyke, #HarrowWeald as 'St. Ursula's Convent' aka W.E.R.K., in #Randall_and_Hopkirk (Deceased) ep. 25, 'You Can Always Find a Fall Guy,' featuring #sinister_glam_nun, filmed 1968.
Peter Cushing, Tales from the Crypt
... This scene from #TalesfromtheCrypt might almost be dramatic reconstruction of his return from grave. Note name on tombstone. #HarrowWeald #GrimsDyke
Subway, Harrow Weald
Haunted subway, Harrow Weald 2
#HarrowWeald. Subway and environs; reputedly a sometimes hang out of same ghost alleged to haunt bench in Weald Lane. #HauntedBenchonTour
"Harrow Weald Park is a cockney-Gothic mansion of 1810 with additional castellation of 1870." (Michael Robbins, #Middlesex, 1953). It's also where two young men drowned when their punt capsized on the lake in 1894 ...
Haunted #HarrowWeald #MacabreHistoryofHarrow #cockneyGothic
