BORLEY GHOST SOCIETY

Peter Quiller was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1944. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and the Italia Conti Stage School. After a six year full-time career as a dancer, actor and folk-singer, he entered the film industry as a ‘gopher’ in 1965/66. For over sixteen years he worked as a freelance film cameraman for BBCTV, Associated Rediffusion, ATV, Southern TV, Anglia, Yorkshire TV, Thames, London Weekend, M.G.M., Rank, EMI, ABC, Bavarian TV, United Motion Pictures, Insight Productions, Shand Pictures, Anvil Films etc. His many credits include Superman - the Movie, The Return of the Saint and Play School.

Finally, in 1981 he severed his full-time connections with the film industry to return to full-time higher education for three years at the University of Hertfordshire, where he obtained B.A. Honours degree in English and Drama. Graduating in 1984 he became a fully qualified teacher and for twelve years taught Drama and English to students of all ages, whilst continuing his magical and geomantic interests. During odd periods of ‘resting’ in his career, Peter Quiller has worked as a caretaker, a builder’s labourer, a salesman, a landscape gardener, an ambulance driver, a local government officer, a bus driver, a theatre and film director, as well as appearing as Father Christmas.

Occasionally, he gives lectures about his experiences with Merlin to youth clubs, New Age groups and spiritualist churches. He continues to live in Hertfordshire with his wife and family.

"My last full-time teaching post was Head of Drama in Royston in Herfordshire. I had been teaching for 12 years by that time. Before beginning my teaching career I was at the University of Hertfordshire in the eighties undertaking my B.A. Honours degree in English and Drama and prior to that I was a film technician, working as a cameraman for a period in excess of sixteen years for all the major British TV companies. It was during my film career that I first developed an interest in unusual things, having photographed and experienced a few "oddities" like UFOs! Denny Densham was largely responsible for increasing my curiosity about ghosts when we worked on a number of movies together, particularly a job we undertook for Shand pictures at BirchamNewton aerodrome in Norfolk back in the sixties. This led on to our mutual interest in Borley during the early seventies.

"Now retired, I am hoping to supplement my teacher's pension by writing the odd article or two for magazines etc. My latest book was "Merlin Awakens." It concerns some very odd things that happened to me from March 1975 onwards, the year following some of those strange events at Borley. I have three other volumes too, which I hope to see published one day under the generic title of "The Quest for the Round Table". Prior to 1975 I had no interest in anything Arthurian whatsoever! I believe whatever happened to me at Borley could have been the precursor to some really remarkable visionary experiences.

"I have taken up woodworking, which gives me a lot of satisfaction and I am hoping to make some saleable stuff."

Peter Quiller