Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Country and County: West Midlands

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Articles / Golden Dawn / Occult / Occult Biographies / Occult Traditions / Spiritualism

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Socialism in the Midlands

In 1881 Frank Podmore met Edward Pease, a young stockbroker, at a Spiritualist meeting in London. They discovered a mutual interest in socialism, and joined the Progressive Association, founded in November 1882. They took a keen interest in the utopian philosophy of Thomas Davidson, and with a few others formed a society, the Fellowship of the New Life.

Hauntings

Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre

Officially opened by HRH Prince Andrew on 28th June 1996, the new and renamed Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre on the City Hospital site, replaced the old Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital, which had been on Church Street since 1884.

Hauntings

City Hospital, Birmingham

The City Hospital originally opened in 1889 as an extension to the Western Road workhouse and has been known by several names including Birmingham Union Infirmary, Dudley Road Infirmary and Dudley Road Hospital.

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Articles / Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs

Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918

At the turn of the 20th century, visionaries began to dream that the new science of aeronautics would bring universal peace on the Earth by love or fear. Love because as people travelled more they would get to know each other as human beings and no longer as sinister foreigners; fear, because the destructive power of aerial bombardment would render war unthinkable.

Ancient Sites / Articles / Articles / Hauntings / Road Ghosts

Roads To The Otherworld: Contemporary Haunted Roads And A Sacred Landscape

Oldnall Road, a seemingly unremarkable two-mile rural stretch of B-road between the towns of Halesowen and Stourbridge in the West Midlands, hit the international headlines a few months ago (1) following reports of a series of sightings of an apparition. Reports of ‘road ghosts’ are nothing unusual, they form an important part of ‘ghost lore’ throughout the world (2).

Haunted Pubs / Hauntings

The Bull’s Head, Earlswood

Recently (April 2013) re-opened the The Bull’s Head on Limekiln Lane in Earlswood has been a public house since 1832, though the building dates back to 1740 when it was used by navies working on the Stratford Upon Avon canal. Their website states that it is rumored to be haunted by a ghost of a lime kiln worker.

Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings

The Court Oak, Harborne

The Court Oak built in 1932 has a reputation of being haunted. The following Mirror article entitled ‘Wine snob ghost ‘haunting Birmingham pub smashes house wine bottles’ dates from 30 October 2011.

Hauntings

Shorth Heath

Roy Palmer in his ‘The Folklore Of Warwickshire (1976)’ refers to the following haunting case in he West Midlands, though I have not been able to discover any further details. ‘People living in a house at Short Heath, Birmingham, have heard a noisy ghost, thought to be female, banging about and leaving the smell of perfume behind her.’