Lichfield Lore @LichfieldLore Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@JJBCP_FR

@Murasaki8586

@archambault_ml

@ichriswayne

@jandakembangstw

@mltpizzaGO

@jimmysheirgill

@MidYorkshireNHS

@shashimiiw_

@ak_8085

@AndyVoisinet

@MPRangevin

@t_kazuki_staff

@1259za

@enst_gassho

@NClahore

@JaxsonPlummer1

@tavex3005

@bokeplokalmalam

@NCSCO

@ilovealice29829

@ShockahTF

@moimoi_monet

@Foxy_Captions

@MidwestMediaOBR

@bokeplokalmalam

@T_Rozzay3

@SungKhn46962

@FRFT027

@peter1fahy

@Nature1sScary

@yamaguchi_328

@sammybhoy1967

@elmeisie

@smmmwd474292616

@jjcafune

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

I'm in a pub in Lichfield and there's a small boy in the corner writing with a quill. Too scared to ask if anyone else can see him 😂

300

1K

29K

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 month

A curious heastone at Lanercost Priory. I've never seen one like it (and I've been to a lot of graveyards!) 🖤 ⏳️

21

54

652

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

29 days

Tempted to tell everyone I've found an entrance to a secret tunnel but the truth is shaping up to be much more interesting. A lost moated manor turned farm house & a deserted medieval village on the edge of Lichfield, near where Roman pottery and cartloads of bones were found.

4

31

410

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 month

Have I mentioned that I live in Lichfield? 😍

23

19

391

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

17 days

Looking pretty good tonight Lichfield

7

22

379

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

I'm writing about witchcraft in Staffordshire and, as if by magic, I saw these marks in Tamworth today. The custodians of the castle believe they were made when James I came to stay and wanted some apotropaic protection for his accommodation.

11

46

368

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Real events can be so much stranger than anything our imaginations can conjure up. An inquest took place here in Abbots Bromley in 1857 into the murder of a man whose family, that same year, had prosecuted a fake wizard they'd been paying to lift a curse from their cheese-kettle

24

65

342

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

21 days

The Chapel in the Wilderness in the Staffordshire Moorlands. We've got tomb raiding, sacrificial stones, headless skeletons, giants under the church & it's the final, final resting place of a man who was buried alive.

10

37

273

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 days

Today I visited Thor's Cave, Staffordshire, named after a god (or a giant or a goblin) and a place of human habitation for thousands of years.

17

28

269

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

24 days

Been writing about Sarah Smith’s extraordinary gravestone in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, inscribed with a poem pointing to the identity of the person she (or someone acting on her behalf) alleged had poisoned her.

7

54

262

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

The crypt at Repton no longer holds the bones of Saxon saints or Mercian kings, but still retains the power to spark a sense of wonder

5

25

245

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

There's a farm called 'Old Hag' up in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Apparently it's because a woman who lived there used to turn herself into a hare so her husband could charge people to hunt her. This is peak Peak District folklore folks.

7

30

245

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

@JohnnyRichards I mean it did look a bit run down but..

3

1

236

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

On this day in 918, the mighty Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, died in Tamworth and was buried at St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester.

3

44

217

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 months

Jus woken up to the news Lichfield has a new MP! Huge congratulations to @DaveR_Lichfield !

14

11

202

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

Self indulgent tweet sorry. I wrote a book about Staffordshire & the launch was five years ago tonight. Waterstones opened in Lichfield today and it's in there. Seeing something that I wrote in a bookshop is still something that makes me happy to this day.

13

8

202

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

Back home from the haunted hall. Anyone ready for a Christmas ghost story?

14

12

199

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

Entrances to the crypt at Repton were sealed & within time, the existence of a mausoleum for Mercian kings was no longer even a folk memory. It was rediscovered by chance in 1779, when a man digging a grave for the school's headmaster broke through its vaulted ceiling & fell in

6

37

188

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

Things you don't expect to find in churches. An occasional series.

5

22

187

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

Even the picturesque parts of Cannock Chase are creepy. The Stepping Stones came from the demolished Hangman's Gate at Stafford Gaol, where public executions were carried out until 1817. With true folk horror classics like this, who needs to invent tales of fantastical beasts eh?

7

35

188

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

Time works differently in the ancient lanes around Lichfield. It's not unusual to hear the footsteps of someone who trod the same track, years before you, alongside your own. Perhaps they hear yours too? And can anyone else see that face? Pareidolia rather than paranormal I know

10

23

189

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire (or Mercia if you prefer)

5

23

181

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Lichfield Cathedral from Pipe Green

6

15

173

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

Anyway, it's the Lichfield Bower this bank holiday Monday. Stand by for weirdness.

5

29

176

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Today's my 20th anniversary of moving to Lichfield. To celebrate here's my favourite place at my favourite time of year. Late spring on @pipegreentrust , looking over towards @LichfieldCath . You can see why I love this city 💚

5

13

174

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 years

Lichfield Coronavirus Vaccination Centre looking good this afternoon

4

21

167

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

As yet no-one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation for these strange symbols on top of a tomb in St Michael's, Greenhill, Lichfield.

52

25

163

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

And here's a photo of the rece the recently uncovered Beacon Street brick vault! Photo: Alun Jones

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Just been told a huge brick vault has turned up beneath the front garden of a building on Beacon Street, Lichfield in the last few days. Could it be the cellar of the lost Lamb Inn or a wine merchant's vault I wonder?

3

9

62

9

12

161

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 years

Three years ago today I graduated aged 40. Three years later, I've just started a PGCE. If you'd told me five years ago that any of this would have happened, I wouldn't have believed you. So please excuse my self-indulgence but I think it's ok to be a bit proud of myself today

21

7

155

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

A part of the medieval wall defending Lichfield's Cathedral Close which survived the onslaught of the three Sieges of the Civil War

3

21

149

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Murderer John Massey's body was gibbeted here at Bilstone, Leicestershire. From here it's said his skull was stolen and taken to a pub in Atherstone where it was lined with silver and is supposedly brought out on Shrove Tuesday each year, during the town's brutal ball game.

9

24

149

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Unexpectedly found a standing stone stood in the middle of Staffordshire

14

13

143

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 months

Think the fact that @DaveR_Lichfield is spending part of his first day as the new Labour MP for Lichfield helping out at a local foodbank says so much

Lichfield Live®

@LichfieldLive

2 months

Labour’s new Lichfield MP says election win is “an absolute privilege”

1

21

99

9

26

139

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

Ancient drovers' road on the outskirts of Lichfield

3

19

129

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 months

Midsummer at the medieval moated manor site near me

2

11

135

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Think I've missed the last train from Hammerwich. By about 50 years.

12

8

134

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

6 months

Welcome to Staffordshire. Here be dragons.

2

10

131

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

The village lock up and stocks at Penkridge. According to locals, this small Staffordshire town was the capital of England for about three days in 958

9

129

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

A shameless plug. The updated version of my Little Book of Staffordshire is on sale @WaterstonesLich

8

26

127

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

11 months

A new paperback version of my Little Book of Staffordshire is out now! Currently working on Staffordshire book two, focusing on the curiosities of the county, plus a project specifically about the stories of Burntwood 📚

8

40

123

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

Today I'm going to be investigating claims Kings Bromley nr Lichfield was where the last Saxon king of England got married & where his grandmother-in-law Lady Godiva is buried (don't tell Coventry). Side quests include a haunted pub, a buried skull and a wish-granting witch tree

7

13

120

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

6 months

We visited Sandon in Staffordshire to find the supposed grave of a highwayman amongst other things. We failed on that front but we did find these two characters.

6

13

122

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

Just read about a metal detectorist who thought he heard a woman crying at the spot where he later dug up a gold ring. I think I'd have left it in the ground 😱

10

117

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

The beautiful Staffordshire village of Kings Bromley, once the summer residence of Lady Godiva, where a bloke found a skull buried in his garden and thought it was a coconut until he saw the eye sockets 💀

3

17

122

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

'Lichfield's Corporation seal must be the most ghastly of any in England, for the city arms exhibit a field strewn with corpses' - Halifax Evening Courier 23rd March 1938

10

24

117

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

One of my favourite spots in Staffordshire is the ford nr Shugborough where two rivers meet. The mighty Trent merges with the Sow 100m downstream from the famous Essex Bridge. Tolkein described it as, 'The valley of the two rivers where the grey bridge leaps the joining waters'

8

11

118

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

Unexpected discovery of the day. Oscar Wilde gave a lecture on home decorating in Lichfield in November 1883.

6

19

116

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

On July 8th 1728, Sir William Wolseley was returning from Lichfield in his carriage during a thunderstorm. As he reached the little stream at Longdon, now known as the Shropshire Brook a mill dam upstream burst.

3

15

111

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Been looking for a lost king of Mercia alongside the Old London Road, just outside of Lichfield.

7

8

112

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

Merry Christmas from Lichfield. The ghost stories start tomorrow...

3

7

113

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 month

Still very much trying to piece it together but looks like the remains of Stychbrook Farm stood here, just off a field in North Lichfield. There are suggestions it was once a moated manor house which sat alongside a now deserted medieval village.

2

13

110

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 months

Happy Staffordshire Day from Leomansley Woods in Lichfield

4

9

111

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

When James I came to stay in Staffordshire in 1619 it's said he insisted on protective marks being added to the walls of Tamworth Castle to ward off the local witches

5

15

112

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 months

Le 14 juillet. This intriguing chapel-like building in the garden of a house on Nether Beacon is believed to have been built by French officers, on parole in Lichfield following the Naploeonic War. Photos (c) Dixons Estate Agents

4

15

109

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 years

Just realised that in my search for the #CreepiestObject in Lichfield I have overlooked the fact that our city seal features dismembered martyrs

5

13

105

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

My Curious Staffordshire book is happening! Looking forward to a summer of seeking out strange stories.

12

7

104

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

Merry Christmas from Lichfield

8

4

104

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

Meeting three other women in the pub later to talk archaeology & ghosts. Finally, got the spooky girl gang I always wanted to be in as a child.

6

4

106

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

Good morning from Lichfield

10

16

104

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Just reading about an am-dram production in 1980's Stoke on Trent which was apparently cursed by a local witch. My favourite evidence cited for this is that 'principal characters were sent on courses by employers - never before known in their jobs'

6

21

101

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

At a Remembrance Service in Fradley, I saw someone who'd once sat where I was sitting had scratched their name on the seat in front. When a list of the names of those from the village who died during the First World War was read, the name carved in front of me was amongst them.

6

9

101

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Most underground tunnels exist only in the realms of folklore & fantasy but this stone on Beacon Street marks the entrance to one which really does run beneath Lichfield

6

9

99

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

9 months

Whilst on the subject of Wychnor & its flitch of bacon, feast your eyes upon this gorgeous glass in the (deserted medieval) village church

0

14

97

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Been sent over the cover for the paperback version of my first Staffordshire book (available 21st September!). I've also had to re-read it to check if any amendments are needed and to be fair, it's actually quite good ;)

8

11

97

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

I should be tidying up for my Easter guests but what I'm actually doing is a desk-based paranormal investigation into this Lichfield pub

4

11

98

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Just had a mildly spooky experience in the church at Abbots Bromley which meant I nearly didn't stay to take a photo of the horns but I summoned up all of my Mercian courage ;)

7

99

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

It would seem I have found the creepiest staircase in the city of Lichfield.

6

97

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 years

The grave of Richard Munslow (d.1906), the last sin eater in the Shropshire area & poss the country, at Ratlinghope church #folklorethursday

5

54

92

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

Excited to find a derelict mill in Fole, Staffordshire. Even more excited to read it was the scene of a séance in 1874.

5

16

98

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 years

I've found Noddy, a huge 800 year old oak, still guarding an ancient boundary in Colton thanks in no small part to an @Lichfield_DC tree officer who helped saved him from HS2 related destruction. I can't hug people these days but I am going to give this amazing ancient tree a hug

6

14

95

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

PGCE graduation this morning (for last year!) Great way to start the summer hols 👩‍🎓🌞

16

2

95

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

An ancient alley, one of several structures in landlocked Lichfield which far-fetched folklore claims is constructed using ship's beams. What really shivers my timbers tho are stories the adjoining building has a staircase leading to a windowless attic room described as a 'cell'

5

9

95

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

6 months

Today is the feast day of St Chad, the patron saint of Lichfield, who died on this day in 672. On the outskirts of the city is a well, associated with the sacred spring where he was said to stand on a stone and pray. In recent years, the tradition of well dressing has restarted.

3

20

95

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

Intended to end up at Lichfield Cathedral at sunset but due to reasons which include looking for a marl pit it was after dark when I got there. This turned out to be a good thing 😍

2

5

91

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

A resident of a new estate in Lichfield asks if I've any idea why she and others are seeing shadowy figures on their streets. As it's built near the burial mounds of ancient kings, the city gallows and a Roman road, I do have a few suggestions...

6

12

94

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

Chasewater Castle

2

9

94

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

7 months

Within this field near Lichfield is the spot where two of the most important roads in Roman Britain crossed. A milestone once marked the place where Watling Street met Ryknield St at Letocetum but it has long since disappeared. Eheu!

1

14

94

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

St Mary's across Minster Pool from the remains of a medieval hall on the edge of Lichfield's cathedral close

1

10

94

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

Richard II spent Xmas 1397 in Lichfield consuming 200 tuns of wine & 2000 oxen. Almost as much as me during Christmas 2021. Two years later he was back as a prisoner at 'Lichfield Castle', where he unsuccessfully tried to escape from the window of the tower in which he slept

5

25

93

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

When the wind calms down, I might see if I can find the hole where a hobgoblin used to live in Lichfield.

9

11

94

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

For May Day eve, here's a Green Man who has been greeting people at the doors of Longdon Church for a thousand years.

2

14

89

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

Medieval conduit head over a spring supplying Lichfield Cathedral Close with water for over 800 years. In the 1480s, Sir Humphrey Stanley smashed the cistern. The Cathedral repaired it so Lady Stanley smashed it up again, causing King Henry VII to have to wade into the argument

9

10

88

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

As it's #StaffordshireDay let's remind ourselves of the time Waitrose described our beloved oatcakes 'a kind of brusque West Midlands galette'.

11

16

91

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

I found the grave of Roundhead turned Royalist Captain John Benbow who swapped sides in the Civil War & was shot at Shrewsbury Castle by his former comrades. I let out an audible 'Ooooh' & an old bloke sat on the bench behind me piped up 'Yep, you can't trust a Parliamentarian'

4

14

89

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 years

That Lichfield. Quite nice isn't it.

10

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

We're on an old coaching route so naturally my friend has spontaneously burst into an Adam Ant song

7

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

6 months

My best friend has just messaged to tell me her Dad has dug up some gravestones in his garden and now thinks his garden was part of the churchyard to the chapel across the road. She has mixed feelings about this ☠️

11

5

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

10 months

Told woman in the shop last night that I was going out out. The look on her face when I said it was to an archaeology talk at Lichfield Guildhall suggested there may have been some difference in opinion as to what going out out entails.

4

3

88

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

5 months

Everyone has heard of the Staffordshire Hoard but I suspect far fewer know of the Roman site in close proximity. During construction of the M6 Toll road, a large aisled building dating to the 2ndc was discovered here alongside Watling St, with a well and a cremation burial nearby

5

12

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 years

Lichfield: Hello! We are a pretty & quaint city in Staffordshire with lots of nice pubs & places to eat Also Lichfield: We have dismembered people on our city seal and our name is supposed to mean the Field of the Dead They should put me in charge of marketing this place eh? ;)

7

12

88

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

9 months

Started out as winter wonderland, ended up as folk horror (What is making that noise?!)

13

11

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

My first spooky story of the season takes us to the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield. This 18th coaching inn's most famous phantom is the Royalist Drummer Boy, stoned to death in the town stocks by a group of Roundheads before his broken body was dumped in the cellar here.

7

12

87

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

Love a request! The manager of Oxfam Books & Music in Lichfield has been in touch to ask if I know anything of their building's history. So far I know it was built around 1750 and he tells me the second floor is accessible only by stepladder. Wonder what else I can find...

5

8

85

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

8 months

Spending the last day of 2023 in Paradise...aka drinking cocktails in an old Tudor bakery in Lichfield. For once, I don't know any ghost stories about the place but def feels like there should be a tale or two amidst these old timbers. Anyway, cheers & happy New Year everyone! 🍹

8

3

85

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

I really want to write a ghost story set in Lichfield but the place just doesn't have any creepy and abandoned old buildings to inspire me ;)

19

10

85

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

4 years

Something lovely from Longdon. Just seen on FB that a couple living in the village have paid for 10 older people who are struggling to get out & about to have a Sunday roast delivered from the Swan with Two Necks every week from now until March 😊

6

9

84

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

I love this bridge over the Moreton Brook in Colton, Staffordshire. It has four erratic boulders at each corner but I have no idea why.

6

10

83

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

2 years

View of The Bear from the Ancient High House in Stafford, one of the biggest timber framed buildings in the country, which according to one of the teenagers we encountered inside is 'bare wonky'.

5

10

82

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

3 months

When I moved to Lichfield 20 years ago, despite our political differences, I truly believed Mr Fabricant had the interests of our city at heart. These days I despair when I see the name of the place I live in and love associated with him. We need change

Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦

@Mike_Fabricant

3 months

Seems there’s some speculation that I may be one of the 100+ Conservative MPs not standing. Not so! I am proud to be selected to stand for re-election to the new #Lichfield constituency (which sadly loses Whittington to Tamworth, but reunites Wall with Hammerwich into Lichfield)

1K

70

424

16

7

86

Lichfield Lore

@LichfieldLore

1 year

This time six years ago it was my book launch for The Little Book of Staffordshire. Currently waiting to hear back from publishers whether book number two is a goer...

4

7

86