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Now to the book: A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire. I looked up grim in my dictionary, incidentally a dictionary that only goes from B to W having shed fifteen pages at either end. ‘Grim’ – of stern or forbidding aspect, relentless, joyless.

Now to the book: A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire. Oh dear, I hope my regular readers do not find this book so. I hope I have touched upon the scary, blood-lusting, thrill-seeking, pleasurably frightening side of grim and occasionally the jovial and almost flippant aspect of grim; a sort of Grim(m)s fairy tale

Report an error in the book. A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.

Report an error in the book. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings and audacious thefts.

Title : A Grim Almanac of Berkshire (In Old Photographs). Authors : Roger Long. Roger Long has investigated archives for evidence of the darker side of Berkshire life and brings his findings together in this day-by-day guide. Publisher : The History Press Ltd. Product Category : Books. It includes tales of murder, smuggling, strange deaths, bodysnatching, bizarre disasters and more.

This compilation of grim deeds contains a veritable plethora of poisonings, assaults, drownings, kidnappings, suicides and disasters. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further - it's all here. But do you have the stomach for it? show more.

This book gives us a gristly event that happened in old Berkshire, every day of the year. This book is very interesting with lots of nasty local history. If you live or have ever lived in Berkshire, you will recognise quite a few places mentioned. Who knew we lived in such a horrible county! This book is very interesting with lots of nasty local history. As a Sandhurst resident, I'm slightly concerned about the amount of people who managed to escape Broadmoor Hospital which is it's now politically correct name, it's old one being Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Because of all these escapees we actually have a warning siren in the local areas. It gets tested every monday morning at 10am.

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If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further-it's all here. But do you have the stomach for it?

A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides, and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings, and audacious thefts. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further-it's all here. But do you have the stomach for it? Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire - eBook.

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