Radio Interviews and looking for Fanny Avenue

This morning we woke up and got ready very quickly to head into the local BBC Radio station in Sheffield for an interview on breakfast radio with Toby Foster. Toby had interviewed us once before when we answered a Facebook callout asking who would sleep in a cemetery?

Of course - WE WOULD.

We told him that we would be in contact when we were in Sheffield and he kept his promise.

Toby was lovely and really sincerely loved chatting with us.

To our surprise we were then asked to come back for a night time radio session - which we are still to do as I am writing this post around 4pm.

They want us to talk about what we have encountered at the Cemetery. Now this could be very dicey and we do not want to offend the Cemetery Trust and put a bad view on the B and B as it is such a beautiful space. We would hate it to be overrun by ghost hunters nd people seeking some sort of creepy experience and disrespecting the opportunity.

So we are going to have to be pretty careful with what we say.

But there is a ghost here apparently.

Let me tell you the story.

dailymail.co.uk

Apparently Katherine Parker haunts the cemetery and above is a capture taken by a local ghost hunting team about two years ago that may be her?!!

Katherine was the wife of William Parker - a cutlery pioneer in the steel city and former Master Cutler of Sheffield, who died in 1837. William died unexpectedly and left Katherine with no money.

Women were not allowed to own houses or land back then and so all she had was the business her husband had started. This was too much for her and in her grief, anxiety and stress she committed suicide.

She lies next to her husband's monument which was donated by workers from his factory - he lies in one of the crypts in the catacombs in the cemetery.

She is thought to be the ghost that roams the cemetery at night - I am not sure why people think that she is the ghost. Maybe it is because she suicided?

Maybe we will try to get a connection with her tonight in our midnight wander.

You will have to come back tomorrow to find out more.

Btw...we did find FANNY Avenue.

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