If you are a criminal on the run, it’s usually a good idea to keep a low profile but we heard today about one such individual who took the unorthodox approach of posting a video on line which helpfully included the location of where it had been made. When arrested our hero thought someone had shopped him and refused to believe that the video had anything to do with it! As I say there’s one born every minute.
On this week’s BYGONES feature, Margaret Mills took us back to July 1615 when it seems a well heeled inhabitant of Hatfield Broadoak – Lady Joan Barrington – obtained medical advice from her doctor – by post! How the doctor, based in Colchester, was able to diagnose her ailment without seeing her is astonishing but clearly the recommended cure did her no harm as she lived for another 26 years to the ripe old age of 83.
Listen again to what Margaret said by clicking on the link below: –
See you again soon,
Scott
