Maynard introduced them to the forefathers of hip-hop, blasting the Last Poets from that hot guest room. It will take a long time to work through all the footage and once it is available, I will share some photos. He not only grew up in Pontefract, but his mother Rene was the sister-in-law of Jean Pritchard’s sister.

It started at 4am when my pillow was pulled from under my head and ended up by the sitting room door from the couch.From there, it’s a short walk to the Church of Saint Nicholas, where the 12th century “Red Lady” – “buried in a sumptuous gown with a red rose in her hands” – stalks the graveyard. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. If the system detects something that potentially contradicts our community guidelines, the review is not published. He pulled Keith and Kevin into his world when they were just eleven—laughing and playing music with their big cousin at the same age I was when I learned that Maynard was dead. She found herself looking at a tall figure dressed in a black monk’s habit, with a cowl over the head.

They proceed with the exorcism at Len's house; the spirit violently resists but Clifton manages to drive it out. A lovely guy from Exeter…” muses Chris, “who had in his school library a copy of the book that he took out regularly, and it lasted and stayed with him.He crowdfunded the various stages of the film, and part of the story that he told was his joy at taking a book that inspired him, and finally realising it in this wonderful animated film. Before this period, Pontefract was famous for its Pomfrey cakes, a black sweet made from the liquorice grown in the Yorkshire town. I wondered if it was the doll, but my sister removed the doll from the pram earlier that night to entice a spirit. There was the glowing, spectral figure of a woman in a flowing, formal gown, descending the stairs of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, captured on camera in 1936.