05/11/2025
🎆Bonfire night to many means fireworks etc….
To us, its 2 days before our annual visit to Holbeche house. Robert Catesby and others involved in the gunpowder plot had hatched a plan to make a stand at the house. Knowing they were outnumbered, 8 against almost 200 of the kings troops, they decided to stand, fight and die.
The ghost of Gideon Grove is said to appear on this day after he fled the assault of the house. He had nothing to do with the plot. He worked at the house before their arrival. In a panic he fled into Himley woods and was shot down with a musket ball to the throat.👻
His ghost has been seen numerous times, him riding a horse along the A449.
Every year we go, hoping to see something.