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🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Frank heads to one of his favourite haunts in Camden Town to meet local historian Carol Clancy and find out more about former landlady Jinny Bingham, also known as the Mother Damnable. Described as a witch by many for her fiery temper and disregard for authority, locals claimed that on the day she died they saw the devil enter her house but never leave. Her coachhouse The Mother Redcap was originally on the site of the World’s End pub with the The Underworld venue underneath, which she is reputed to haunt to this day.
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This episode was produced by Hayley Clarke and the executive producer was Peggy Sutton. There was additional production from Paul Smith, Steve Ackerman, Josh Gibbs, Gulli Lawrence-Tickell and Charlie Caplowe. Tales from No Man’s Land is produced by Frank Turner, Xtra Mile Recordings and Somethin’ Else.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Frank Turner. Welcome to Tales from No Man's Land, a podcast that accompanies my album, No Man's Land. It's about 13 women from history who you probably haven't heard of, but definitely should have. Their stories are fascinating, |
0:21.7 | moving, funny and most importantly worth celebrating and sharing. If you're heading down to |
0:27.9 | Camden Town, be sure to raise a toast, to the patron saint of the Waste and Strays, |
0:35.8 | to Ginny Bingham's Ghost. |
0:39.5 | Welcome back to the podcast Tales from No Man's Land. As we've probably established by now, |
0:44.8 | I am a massive history nerd and I especially have a passion for learning about the history |
0:49.6 | of my adopted hometown, the city of London, where I live. I spend a lot of time wandering around the |
0:54.8 | city trying to learn about it, and in North London, I stumbled across the story of the woman that |
0:59.0 | we're going to learn about in this episode, who was called Ginny Bingham. Ginny lived in Camden |
1:04.8 | in Kentish Town in the 17th century. There's not masses about her on the record, but there are a few |
1:09.9 | clues here and there. |
1:13.1 | We know that she was a herbal healer, a brewer, and a landlady of a coaching house. We know that |
1:18.3 | she had a series of lovers who passed away in different ways, the third one of which was found |
1:22.2 | dead in her oven. She was a strong and independent woman, but as she got older, people turned against |
1:27.4 | her. She ended up reviled and accused of witch but as she got older, people turned against her. |
1:28.1 | She ended up reviled and accused of witchcraft. |
1:30.8 | When she died, it was said that her body was found with a cauldron still bubbling alongside her. |
1:37.7 | She became a myth, a local legend. |
1:41.5 | Quite a lot of what we know about Ginny Bingham actually comes from the writings of Bram Stoker, |
1:45.7 | who is the author of Dracula, but at other points in his writing career was a local historian in |
1:49.8 | North London. But more recently, the historian Carol Clancy has been researching Ginny's life. |
1:55.2 | And so I went to meet Carol outside one of my favourite Camden pubs, The World's End, which used to be |
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