Tag: Halloween

• This Is Halloween

  

  Ooooh GAWD it’s my Christmas! This week sees all manner of deathly symbols and imagery invade supermarkets, schools and offices. Whilst like any other festival, its commercialisation does seem to have detracted from its origin as Samhain, a time indicating the start of the darker part of the year and the time where the veil…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  October 28, 2019

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  Celebration, Day of the Dead, Egypt, Escape Rooms, Events, Exhibitions, Halloween, London, Mummy, Seminars, Things To Do, tomb, Tpurs

• Soul Cakes

  

  All Souls Cakes – a delicious recipe! One of the most popular parts of our Halloween tours around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is our offering of authentic Victorian Soul Cakes! Knocking on doors for soul cakes was the precursor to modern day trick or treating and was often accompanied by a song: “Soul! Soul! Soul cake! Please…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  October 31, 2016

  Halloween, Recipe

  All Souls, Autumn, Baking, Biscuits, Butter, Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, Halloween, Nutmeg, Recipe, Spices, Traditional, victorian

• Goose and Crow

  by Stephen Almost as quickly as the trees had earned their green, must they now cast their leaves autumnal yellow. Indeed the end of October is upon us, and as contributor of today’s post it is my privilege to wish all of our readers a very Happy Halloween! With this special time of year comes…

  stephenrobertsuk

  October 31, 2013

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  Cross Bones, Halloween, John Constable, John Crow, Liberty, Life, London, Pagan, Pathways, Prostitute, Southwark