Talk:Harecastle Tunnel

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[edit] The Ghost of Harecastle Tunnel

The following unattributed entry was placed in the "External Links" part of the page. It claims to caste doubt on the ghost story and therefore I have copied it here for discussion. The language used is not mine. Martin Cordon 16:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

"Absolute rubbish: The ghost, known locally as the Kidsgrove Boggart, is supposed to be tht of a decapitated young woman, whose body was thrown into an access tunnel connecting the two tunnels; in fact no such murder ever took place, and the story is based on the Christina Collins Murder in Rugely.

Kit Crewbucket is probably a third hand derivation, and in any case her home is the Crick tunnel, which is elsewhere."

hahahahaha some one has been duped. In local slang Kidsgrove is called Kitcrew and the ghost called the Buggart. so the name Kit Crewbucket in local slang sounds suspiciously like The Kitcrew Buggart.The story however is true to the local tale of a lady travelling to her husband,from Liverpool, on a clay barge to London and to secure her jewellery she ate them. when the barge operators found out they cut off her head to get the jewels and threw her in the 'cut'

unsigned contribution by Kidsgrove-snotter (20:43, 16 January 2007)

[edit] Categories

The category "Canals in England" has been removed from this article on the grounds of redundancy. The counter argument is that an article needs to be advertised in as many relevant categories as possible so that the maximum number of interested parties can find it. Instead of continuing to revert other editor's changes over and again I have opened this issue for discussion here. Martin Cordon 16:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

This issue is already being discussed on my talk page. Andy Mabbett 16:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)