Researching a humble nurse’s story I came across the origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, Sherlock Holmes’ most famous case.
Author: Mike J
Journalist, trainer, editor; storyteller; amateur historian.
Christmas cheer at Glenside Hospital
A Christmassy column for the December 2021 edition of Fishponds Voice, illustrating the yuletide antics of staff at Glenside Psychiatric Hospital
A far cry from luxury
Unexpurgated version of my latest column for Fishponds Voice features Stapleton Workhouse
What’s afoot?
I seem to have a penchant for the macabre, so here’s a little chiller for Hallowe’en.
Growing pains
This has perhaps more relevance almost 55 years after it was originally composed.