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| Towards the end of the 19th
century Spanish ships brought cargoes of onions to
Gloucester and sailors hawked them in the streets to
local housewives. The Spaniards had a bad reputation for drinking, fighting,and wenching. Perhaps because of this, one night a fight broke out between two Spaniards and sailors from another vessel. It is said that with the dawn, the outcome of the fight was clear to see - on the deck of the Spanish wooden barque, hanging by their feet from the yard arm, with throats cut , were the bodies of two sailors. Today, as the early morning mists rise in the main basin, it is also said that the ship can be fleetingly glimpsed from the quayside with the shadowy and ghastly bodies of the two unfortunate sailors swaying gently to and fro from the yard arm |
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| Lyn Cindery leads Ghost Walks
around central Gloucester on Wednesday evenings at 8.00pm
and on Thursday evenings at 6.30pm. On both evenings, the
Ghost Walks leave from Gloucester Tourist Information
Centre, 28 Southgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2DP. The fee for Adults is £ 4.00, Children £2.00 and Senior Citizens £3.00 For more information click on http://www.gloucesterghostwalks.co.uk/ or telephone Lyn Cindery on 07908552855. |
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