25 March 2003 - i know your thoughts are somewhere else at this time, i hope shawn is doing well. but i thought i would keep you updated re worple road. still no luck with an old photo of jonquille. however i did get an e mail from a local studies in wimbledon who informed me that i might be able to track down the building history and past residents of 20a worple road. i am going to get in touch with them so who knows what might turn up? some people might think this is a distant part of the borley story, maybe so but i think it is an essential part of your mothers story.so i thought you might like to see what the site of jonquille et cie looks like today. this is 20 /22 worple road. much changed from when marrianne was here i suspect, nontheless this is THE place where she walked and knew. the other photo shows worple road it self.the shop would have stood over to the right where the roof line is lowest between the two high buildings.anyway i hope these shots give you somthing to focus on when you read the name, worple road.
all the best eddie.

Stephen D. Smith takes another look at orb photos.

All Graves Get Walked on Eventually. "The world goes on."

1 April 1996
I remember very well the first time I read Harry Price's The End of Borley Rectory. . . .I'll never forget how frightening it all was. . . .did your mother leave any diaries?
R. Kelly

22 April 2003
I would like to know more about your book. . . . please e-mail me and tell me about your book and your mother, I would love to hear about it. . . .
Marla James

23 July 1996
Your story is incredible! . . . .I plan to go to Oxford University in March, so I will definately want to take a look at the Borley Rectory while I'm in England! When is your book scheduled to be published? I definately want a copy of it because I can tell by your posts on the web that this will be a very interesting book! . . . . I am happy that you were able to trace your background! Sounds like you stumbled upon a gold mine of information when you hooked up to the 'net! Bet you were not expecting it to change your life, were you!
Take care, and good luck to you sir.
JDI

17 May 1996
About six years ago, we were on our way somwhere else, and drove near Borley. We decided to drive to the village, and have the picnic lunch that we had brought. There was a lovely old church, and we parked near the cemetary around it, and ate near the car. A groundskeeper came to tend the surroundings, and we started asking him questions. He was dressed in the typical garb of the English gardener - an old tweed coat, a tie, and a flat, felt hat. He had lived in Borley for many, many years, and knew all the stories. He did not know if he believed in them or not, but he never had seen anything unusual in the area, and had never heard any complaints from his fellow villagers. He knew the poeple who lived in the new house set up on the site of the old rectory, and said that they had never heard any unusual noises, never felt a cold spot, never saw an ectoplasm. And we thought, at the end of our conversation, that we had certainly been interviewing the right authority - he was the village gravedigger.
Rob Hardy

7 May 1996
I came across your home page when I was carrying out some research into Borley Rectory and was absolutely fascinated by your story. I am a freelance journalist based in Glasgow, Scotland who works mainly for UK national newspapers and BBC Radio. I have a personal interest in Borley because I read Price's books about 20 years ago and I paid a visit to the place one summer afternoon. It was very cold. I tried to take photographs of where the Rectory once stood but the camera simply wouldn't work. When I turned away, it was fine. Then it eventually jammed altogether. As soon as we left Borley it was fine again. I have to say that I'm probably the most psychically un-receptive and hard headed person in the world (being a journalist, you have to be), but I always remembered the strangeness of the incident. Then, last year, I was reading a book which said that odd incidents with cameras were not uncommon at Borley. That deepened my interest even more. . . . .I wondered if you would mind if I did a piece on you, your interest in your mother, her association with Borley, your quest for info on the place, etc. . . .
Regards,
Andrew Collier
(Charter member, Borley Ghost Society)

Thanks for this interesting and informative site. My Grandmother was Miss Mary Pearson, the maid at Borley.
James Porter

thanks for the information on borley rectory,i find it very intresting although at school i hate history!
Glover Ivor

Very many thanks for the BGS Newsletter No. 56 - excellent! [May will not only mark my 80th birthday], that month will also be the fifty-sixth anniversary of my first vivsit to Borley [1947] with Ghost Club Society Life member Tom Brown, who will be helping me to celebrate my birthday. Little did I think all those years ago that I would still be intrigued by the mysteries of Borley more than a half-century later. It was a truly memorable visit; we met James and Kathy Turner, Tom Gooch and his wife, the Paynes and other actors in the Borley drama. We also saw and dined at The Bull, Long Melford, before it was altered and 'improved.'; we visited Liston Church and found the spot in the churchyard where the alleged remians of the phantom nun are buried, and of course Borley Church and the graves of the Waldegraves, the Bulls, and the Foysters. At that time we were able to trace the outline of the vanished rectory and explore the gaping cellars and the well-wheel was still standing as were the old carriage gate posts and most of the 'Nun's Walk' was extant. Happy days indeed!
Peter Underwood

As a regular visitor to your website for some time now, I felt it was time to drop you a quick line in appreciation of your efforts in bringing this vast collection of material related the Borley Rectory together - truly a remarkable achievement. Your unique connection with this endearing & enduring of English hauntings is also of special interest as the major players in this drama have now left the stage so to speak. Borley Rectory has interested me for many years. I was introduced to it through the pages of the Beaver Book of Horror by Daniel Farson as a young lad in a school book club back in the mid 1970s. Reading about the bricked up window, the headless figures & the spectral nun, it truly seemed to be the 'Mount Everest of haunted houses' to quote Richard Matheson in his novel Hell House. A year or so later another popular book on the supernatural, again by Dan Farson, The Hamlyn Book of Ghosts went into the case in more detail, including a sprinkling of some of the famous photographs - wall writing, sleeping observer etc. - together with a wonderful colour painting entitled The Night of the Fire at Borley Rectory showing the shadowy figures walking in the flames. (Incidentally, the sleeping person on the bed during the Price tenancy seems to me to be Sydney Glanville - I wonder if this is so). In 1979 I received as a birthday present the audio documentary The Hauntings at Borley Rectory issued by Chiron Records & Tapes narrated by Edward de Sousa with all its dramatic touches. To this day I can quote line after line of this from memory, I listened to it so much! At that time I attempted to track down Harry Price's first Borley book but to no avail. Just over five years ago my interest in Borley was rekindled by coming across a 1947 copy of Price's End of Borley Rectory in a secondhand book shop in Lyme Regis, England. Next to it on the same shelf was a first edition of Robert Wood's Widow of Borley - no more extreme opposites could be imagined! I fulfilled an ambition to visit Borley in 2001 when I spent an extremely windy afternoon there with two of my sons during the Christmas break. Last week my eldest boy asked if we could go back there, so I may be taking another trip soon. Secondhand book websites on the internet have helped me acquire copies of all the major Borley books, including a splendid 1940 first edition of The Most Haunted House in England which arrived last week - rare even in Price's day, it was nice to finally own a book I had been looking for for over twenty years. The human drama of the Borley hauntings interests me most today, especially Sydney Glanville. My parents had friends who moved down to Coldwatham in West Sussex in the 1960s which is only a mile or so away from Fittleworth where Glanville lived, so I know that area well having visited it many times, as well as nearby Pulborough, the home of Harry Price. Glanville's profession as a civil engineer & draughtsman is virtually identical to my own - I work as a technician in an architect's office & Glanville's famous plans of the Rectory are enduring reminders of his dedication to the case. It is my intention one day to write a biography of this fascinating man. Well, that's about all I have to say. Once again I congratulate you on your splendid website. Long may it continue. Very best wishes,
Paul Adams
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

On my last visit to borley there were two men in like forensic white suits (like bee keepers with covered heads (likes something out of the x-files ) poking around borley church yard , do u have any idead what they were doing ??? It was getting dark and no one else was around ?
matt walsh

The last news letter was good, Eddie had good Pictures. Makes me want to go, I rather like the new fence, I think it is pretty.
Kathy Rageur

The latest newsletter looks good . . . .I mentioned to you previously about the disolving effect of the Borley website and how impressive it is. However, I now note that, in fact, once the whole page has been revealed, its quality is not as good as might be expected. If I said that it looked like a paper document and that had been photocopied more than once would you know what I meant? Well, that's how it looks. . . .By the way... I very much enjoyed your item about the shuttle disaster and your e-mail to GWB.
Stephen D. Smith
[Hit "refresh," and it clears right up. Thanks for the kind words!]

Craggs, Douglas. "The Haunting of Borley Rectory." The Magic Circular. February, 1956. pp. 89-90. Review of the SPR report of 1956. (". . .many thousands of readers will execrate the authors. . . .for destroying some of their cherished illusions. . . .no bias has been allowed to sway the final judegment.") ** photocopy

Tuffs, J. Elsden. (Mystico.) "Borley." The Magic Circular. October, 1956. Three photos - foundation and bricks, Nun's Walk, cottage. (Photos taken during visit c. 1954. Not published elsewhere. A seven year old child offered that she had seen the nun as "a sort of grey shadow." Un-named owner was sawing up "some of the charred timbers stil remaining." Remnants of wheel-pump present. After picking up a brick as a souvenier, a couple of unusal events happen on the ensuing drive.) ** photocopy

Bailey, Michael. "London Notes." The Magic Circular. March, 1956. p. 111. (". . .the publication of The Haunting of Borley Rectory by [Dingwall/Goldney/Hall] has brought some interesting publicity for both the Magic Circle and Capt. Hall.")

Restored missing outline for Final Anaylsis by Edward Babbs. This was lost when ghostbooks.com died.

THE TWILIGHT HOUR: VISIONS OF IRELAND’S HAUNTED PAST was invited to be shown at THE EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL in the GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER at the ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Friday March 14th at 8.30 pm, and Tuesday March 18th at 6.15 pm. "Jason Figgis, Ireland, 80 min. With Simon Marsden, John Hurt. Hailed in Britain as the 'Irish BLAIR WITCH PROJECT,' THE TWILIGHT HOUR is a good deal more spooky and atmospheric, capitalizing on what are alleged to be real, historically documented ghosts. Author and photographer Sir Simon Marsden undertakes an on-film search for the ethereal subjects that have fascinated him since childhood. Both he and the filmmaker claim to have encountered more than they bargained for at such famously haunted sites as Woodlawn House in Galway, Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, and Leap Castle in County Offaly. Whether or not you believe the eerie lights, unexplained footsteps, and shadowy figures are real, this is one of the most beautifully mood-drenched films of the festival. Print courtesy of Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc. In English. DigiBeta video."
We are hoping to get a home video/dvd deal before too long - I will post it on the website as soon as it happens. Hopefully the film will also be shown at selected cinemas across the USA.
Simon Marsden

The last time I visited Stewart Evans he brought me to see Keld Fenwick who lives at Pentlow, another of the Reverand Bull's beautiful houses. We also met the author Ted Babbs who is writing Borley rectory: the final analysis.
All the best,
Jason Figgis
[Jason Figgis contributed a beautiful photo essay on Borley in March, 2002.]

Very good!!! Can we buy copies on VHS?
Kathy Rageur

We are currently talking to potential distributors, and there's plenty of interest. We hope for a Sept/Oct release date on DVD. But there will be screenings in various settings even before that. . . .I'll add you to the list of people who have inquired so that I can send everyone a message when the DVD becomes available, and generally keep them posted on the film.
Best regards,
Doug Zwick
pop twist entertainment