My late Mum remembered going to the local flea pit cinema to watch Todd Slaughter in Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn, it was a bit on the melodramatic side..... lots of cloak furling etc.
#RedlandLbr #melodrama #mariamarten #RedBarn #ToddSlaughter
Front cover, 'Buried Passions: Maria Marten & the Red Barn Murder,' Neville Spearman, 1980. Woodcut Illustration depicts three men in hats exhuming the victim's body.
Back cover advertisement for James Dickie's #vampire anthology, 'The Undead' and Marc Alexander's 'To Anger the Devil' examining the work of Rev. Dr Donald Omand, exorcist.
Latest library loan from Watney Market #ideastore; an old friend first borrowed in the late 00s (the identical copy as I recognise my scrawl on the ticket). Thanks to lovely staff, as ever. #Peter_Haining #MariaMarten #MurderintheRedBarn
Souvenir Postcard depicting St Mary's Church, Polstead, as drawn by Ian G. Dennys, March 1971.
Advertisement. The Alfred Denville Players perform Maria Marten at the New Coliseum Theatre, Harrow commencing 26 May 1941, twice nightly.
Tidying stuff, found this souvenir postcard depicting St Mary's Church, #Polstead, Suffolk, as drawn by Ian G. Dennys, March 1971. #MurderintheRedBarn. Advertisement for performance of #MariaMarten' is from 'Harrow Observer, 23 April 1941.
#TuesdayThoughts #Macabre find of book bound with skin of #Suffolk 's #RedBarnMurder #MariaMarten at #MoyseHall #Museum #BuryStEdmunds. #Bury does have history of putting human remains on display, it was a #pilgramage site for #StEdmunds relics from 925 CE
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#TodSlaughter #JennyLynn #MariaMarten #SweeneyTodd
#melodrama #horror #theatre #cinema #movies ghostwords.uk/2024/11/20/a...
