Thank you for making clear that your intention is to try and put down everything that there is about Borley, and leave the reader to draw his/her own conclusions. Regretably, I seem to work the other way 'round in as much as something like the existence of a monastery at Borley and the existence of a convent or a nunnery at Bures when proved to have been non-existant, should then be discarded.
At the present time I am slowly trawling through my card system and all its cross-references to books and other publications in order to examine every occurence in the rectory which are quoted as being possibly paranormal in origin. I stress that this particular exercise involves only "phenonema" that occured IN THE RECTORY, and nowhere else. The "Nun's Walk," the lawns, grounds, road, churchyard, church, and cottage are not under consideration at present, as I feel that there are normal explanations for a great deal of so called happenings that were put down to ghosts!
Today, I have reached the years just prior to the Smith incumbancy without finding anything which is either corroborated or expalinable by pranks, tricks, hoaxes, etc. Too often researchers choose to ignore simple natural explanations in order to fit and support the ghosts they seek to prove. I have spent too many nights in cold and drafty locations without seeing or hearing anything remotely paranormal. That includes a night in the porch of Borley Church with two other researchers, which turned out to be the coldest May night ever to be recorded in this country. Another night spent inside the Church - with permission of course - was fruitless also, although my party of four demonstrated that the sounds Mr. Geoffrey Croome-Hollingsworth recorded and claimed as paranormal, could be duplicated in ten minutes without much effort. My full report on this night is reproduced in it's entirety in Peter Underwood's Hauntings, pages 230-35.
After publication of of this conclusion, I had a most unexpected telephone call from Mr. Croome-Hollingsworth to say that the recordings he made which had been used on a TV programme by the BBC, and which I had duplicated, were misleading, as he now thought that the BBC had selected sounds of the party themselves walking about, locking and unlocking doors, etc. in error!
Of course, the damage was done by then, and it was not too long before a tape cassette was on the market with Hollingswroth's "spectral" sounds passed off as genuine. I cannot speak about other sounds captured on tape which were also included, but there you are - at least Hollingsworth was honest enough to own up to someone elses error.
On both nocturnal vigils, one of my team was a member of the American Society for Psychical Research, a Mr. Charles Doerrer, who at that time was living in Rochester, New York. I would be grateful for the opportunity to renew contact with him.
Sincere regards,
Tony Broughall
Kings Lynn
England