Phil Barrington

Eastern England experimental fine art photography artist. My ambient imagery explores gender, mortality, the outsider & loneliness.

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For today's #FolkloreThursday "trickster" theme I'm exploring how Pluckley came to be "The Most Haunted Village in England": my own attempt (after my recent trip there) to sort out village lore & notable ‘sightings’ from jokey banter. This is a LONG & hopefully fun thread. 1/14

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@desdelboy Lots of awesome memories for me - two sisters of mine lived here. I was a Norfolk dumpling going to stay with them in “the city” each summer up to 1990. It wasn’t all demolished until 1991-ish, but lots of fun ghost stories to be had from the deserted blocks before demolition.

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@ScarredForLife2 I remember it well. This is the soundtrack of being chased into an out-of-season Norfolk seaside resort by ghosts in three-piece suits.

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@ScriptULike Just got back on Twitter solely to thank you for all your hard work, Sir. It would be obnoxious of me to suggest/theorise any MacNutt era continuation of E Morse in the distant future, so I’ll stop here! Just to say that your vision coloured the past few grey years of mine.

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@soullessparty It certainly warrants a celebration! - maybe even a live performance and/or deluxe CD boxset of the entire collection?

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Similar to M.R. James' own views, my total lack of personal science-based belief in intelligent ghosts does not rob myself of the sheer entertainment value of the tales. Especially at such a ghostly time as Christmas. Time to wrap-up warm. 10/10

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As Christmas approaches I thought I'd finish my April 2022 thread on the ghostlore of UK #Kent village of #Pluckley. The current #folklorethursday 'winter' theme offers a good theme for my festive update with something that hasn't appeared online before. 1/10

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Now, some may think that I'm robbing the Pluckley ghostlore of its magic by finding the humdrum sources of its fiction. However, even though I don't believe in interactive ghosts, I still (non-invasively) collected stones from each village location during my trip there. 9/10

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@mylynxbus Ah, I have just found the ‘social updates’ part of your app. Brill! I can finally be free of Twitter - thank you! 🙂

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Walking thru my village with a Sunday beer, tipsy, after summer dusk: strolling by gorgeous gloam-lit corn fields, furtive stillness in the hedgerows. All living things waiting for the moon as I listen to @Hawthonn track ‘Vehiel’ on repeat. Truly sublime
https://t.co/Cf4WubovIg

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@davescook I used to play it all the time in an arcade in Snettisham, west Norfolk, when I was about 12. Like the film, the game used to give me headaches for some reason, and I could never get more than half-way through the 2nd level (never had enough 10ps either). But I adored it.

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@DuganAmanda I’m going to stick my neck out here, but I think this entire sequence, first seen when I was in my early teens (when it was first on U.K. TV), remains the greatest and most transcendent moment in any TV series ever.

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@ScriptULike It has just dawned on me. This’ll be the last 3 episodes of a Morse series that was given the nod by Colin Dexter himself. Along with the passing of Thaw and Pheloung, this is one of those permanence deals that brings further distance to my youth. Thank you for the quality, Russ.