Someone was walking along Abnalls Lane & heard footsteps of someone approaching him from behind. Naturally, he expected them to pass by. What he didn’t expect was for whoever, or whatever, it was to pass straight through him. Time works differently in these lanes around Lichfield

🎃 As we head towards Halloween, we'll be telling some tales from the dark side of the city. We have stories of witchcraft, spectres and monsters to share this Samhain and a few suggestions for protecting yourself from such things, as Lichfeldians have done for centuries.

I've written about burials rites in Lichfield where there's a hint of magic and mystery

Iron foliage winds its way across the doors themselves and though some has been restored, much of the metalwork here was forged in medieval times.

Standing at this stunning doorway into @LichfieldCath is a divine experience. Unlike the majority of the figures adorning the west front, these were carved by Mary Grant, one of the few women working as a professional sculptor in Victorian England.

Plus the shoes are fabulous 🥿

The statue of Charles II @LichfieldCath. It's not the Cathedral's most stunning sculpture but there are some good stories behind it, making it worth its weight in stone.

This weekend we've been loitering in the lanes around Longdon, looking for local legends and landscape features.

Morning all! 🍁 We’ve been out for an early explore, just west of Erasmus Darwin’s fiery forge at Wychnor It’s where the Trent & Mersey Canal, cut by engineer James Brindley, who lived for much of his life in Leek, joins the mighty River Trent Have a lovely autumn weekend all!

My new blog post about an old pub. The Anchor at Streethay is now an Osteopathy Clinic but let's go back & find out more about this lost Lichfield inn ⚓️ https://t.co/XEbd86V7Ny

Another monument to the event is back here in Lichfield, on the plinth in the market square, from which a statue of Sam stares towards his childhood home, now @SamuelJohnsonBM To find out about more about Samuel Johnson’s life & times in Lichfield we highly recommend a visit.

Happy 315th Birthday Weekend Samuel Johnson! To mark it, we visited Uttoxeter marketplace to check out a monument to Lichfield’s most famous son. It tells of the time Sam stood here to try & atone for refusing to help his poorly father on his bookstall as a young lad.

A cool autumn morning at St Chad’s Well, where the story of our city began… or did it? ✨ Over recent months, we’ve been gazing deep into the earliest histories of Lichfield & our wider district. We'll share our findings soon in our programme of activities & events for 2025

A friend and fellow member of @lichdiscovered has a new book on the history of Lichfield out today. I've read it and it's great. Take a look here >> https://t.co/GiERiDRbHS

Good day to you from Bore Street, Lichfield

"In memory of Purchaser Born Feb 4. 1897 Died Jan 17. 1907 His gentle manners and reasonable disposition endeared him to all who knew him HERE LIES MY DOG WHO NOW WITHOUT MY AID HUNTS THROUGH THE SHADOW LAND HIMSELF OR COUCHED INTENT (?) BEFORE SOME GHOSTLY GATE ......MY STEP

The old Hinckley, Birch & Brown solicitors office, St John St Lichfield, which in part dates back to c.1700, is to be converted into apartments with a new property at the rear. The grounds are now cleared but a gravestone to Purchaser, a much loved canine companion still stands

The playing fields and playgrounds of Beacon Park in Lichfield belonged to an 18th century mansion known as Beacon Place. Despite being demolished in the 1960s, traces still remain, including an ice house beneath this grass mound. Cool, eh?

Still in North Lichfield, my @lichdiscovered mates and I have found 19th century references to a field here called 'Graveyard' and another nearby known as 'Chapel Meadow'. On the ground, there's nothing to explain either name but we wonder what lies beneath...

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.