Thursday 29 September 2011

  1. Ex-Inland Revenue building nestling the Woodford station car park. Rumoured to sit atop the remains of a Mithraic temple from Roman times and then later the site of pagan rituals amongst the local aristocracy. Apparently when this history was uncovered by a local historian, B.A.E. Sissons, in 1953. The government of the day moved rapidly to scotch what were dismissed as 'the babblings of a madman' and nullify, what it viewed as, potentially at least a dark stain on an area. The sitting MP for Woodford was Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a man still held in high esteem in the country for his wartime leadership of the country. Sisson's work appeared to link Churchill's ancestor, the 1st Duke of Malborough, John Churchill to the rituals and suggested that the 1st Duke may have derived much of his power and influence from his magickal knowledge, particularly in the practice of sex magick. Governmental thinking at the time suggested that building a tax office on the site would symbolically nullify any distasteful associations. Little is known of Mr Sissons subsequent work but local sources that he died quite suddenly in a house fire. The Revenue moved to Swansea as part of the last Conservative governments cost-cutting and the site has remained empty since 1997.

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